iPhone 12 mini Teardown: iPhone 12… But mini By iFixit

We've already done tear downs for the iPhone 12 12 pro and 12 pro max. So there's just one left till we're 4 for 4. Today we're looking at the iPhone 12 mini it's basically a standard iPhone 12, but hit with a shrink ray. How did apple fit all the features of an iPhone 12 into this tiny phone? Let's do a mini, teardown and find out the iPhone.12 mini may be small, but getting it open requires a large amount of heat and suction. The entire lineup of iPhone's 12 has proven to be more difficult to open than previous generations thanks to tougher adhesive. But since this is our fourth iPhone 12 in two weeks, we're already getting used to it.

With the display lifted off, we can see some notable differences from the iPhone 12 right away. The iPhone 12 mini has two cables connected to the display instead of three and take a look at that teeny tiny little battery and tactic engine, the first components out are the rear camera modules. The mini camera has the same f, 1.6, wide angle and f, 2.4 ultra-wide angle, cameras found in the regular iPhone 12. The wide angled module features optical image stabilization, and we have the x-rays to prove it. Thanks to our friends at creative, electron speaking of x-rays, this 3d spin gives us an amazing look at the layout of the iPhone 12 mini next out is the teeny tiny tactic engine.

It may not be as small as the one found in the Apple Watch, but it's by far the smallest one, we've seen in an iPhone. Interestingly, we've found three different sized and shaped tactic engines in the iPhone 12 lineup. The speaker comes out next, and that gives us access to the two adhesive pull tabs on the bottom of the battery. Thankfully, these don't give us any problems and once they're removed, we can coerce the battery from its own. Oh sure, there were more pull tabs at the top of the battery, but they were so tiny that they barely did any adhering, plus that new 5g antenna cable is in the way of removing them properly.

So for this mini teardown, we just left them be this mini battery packs a surprising 8.57 watt hours, that's more juice than the iPhone SE.2020 is 6.96 watt hours, but understandably short of the 10.78 watt hours in the standard iPhone 12. The logic board is secured by a few standoff screws and several cables, including the same 5g antenna cables that run along the side of the phone that we saw on the other iPhone 12s compared to an iPhone 12 logic board. The 12 minions is actually bigger due to the sim card reader being soldered on once, we've separated the two halves of the board. We can spot the Apple A14 bionic system on chip layered over 4 gigabytes of micron LP ddr4 memory, which is the same as the iPhone 12 and 12 pro elsewhere. On the board is the u1 ultra-wide band chip and some Qualcomm x55 5g silicon, the iPhone 12 and 12 mini are so similar.

You won't be surprised to hear that the iPhone 12 mini, scored the same on a repairability scale as the 12, a 6 out of 10. , the two most common smartphone repairs, display and battery are well prioritized, and most major components are modular enough to be accessed and replaced independently, but as in all iPhones, there are a number of specialized screws and waterproofing measures make mini repairs more difficult. Worst of all, fragile glass covers the rear housing, which means a single drop could necessitate replacing the entire body of the iPhone. If you haven't already make sure to check out our live teardowns of the iPhone 12 and the 12 pro max and make sure you're subscribed to our channel to stay up to date on all of our latest teardowns, all the iPhones may be done, but there's more to come. You.

Source : iFixit