Apple iPhone 5 gets iFixit teardown treatment

As is the tradition, the people at iFixit have given Apple’s latest crown jewel, the iPhone 5 their customary teardown treatment.
The treatment reveals everything about the innards of the iPhone 5.
To begin things, the teardown reveals one has to get past the pentalobe screws of the iPhone 5 that bind the 4-inch display with the aluminum casing. This procedure is different from the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S. In fact, according to iFixit, the iPhone 5 is perhaps the most reparable iPhone that Apple has made in while. Certainly more reparable than the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S.
The battery on the iPhone 5 is slightly bigger than the one on the iPhone 4S at 3.8V. Likewise, the logic-board on the iPhone 5 is smaller than its predecessors, but at the same time packs in a ton of firepower including the new A6 chip, the baseband system, a Qualcomm MDM9615M LTE modem, Broadcom BCM5976 touchscreen controller, Texas Instruments 27C245I touch screen SoC, STMicroelectronics LIS331DLH (2233/DSH/GFGHA) ultra low-power, high performance, three-axis linear accelerometer, a RTR8600 Multi-band/mode RF transceiver storage and number of other essential components.
The teardown also reveals that the iPhone 5 contains a Skyworks 77352-15 GSM/GPRS/EDGE power amplifier module, a SWUA 147 228 is an RF antenna switch module, a Avago AFEM-7813 dual-band LTE B1/B3 PA+FBAR duplexer module, a Skyworks 77491-158 CDMA power amplifier module, a Avago A5613 ACPM-5613 LTE band 13 power amplifier and a Triquint 666083-1229 WCDMA / HSUPA power amplifier / duplexer module for the UMTS band.
The last bit of the teardown reveals the new ‘Lightning’ connector that succeeds the 30-pin dock connector. And finally iFixit gives the iPhone 5 a 7/10 repairability score, which is not bad considering it is an Apple product.
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