Apple iPhone XR smartphone went on sale few hours back in over several countries and territories globally. As usual, folks at iFixit have already managed to grab the iPhone and have given at a teardown treatment as usual. We already know that the iPhone XR has a 2942mAh battery. The teardown reveals an 11.16Wh battery (2,944 mAh at 3.79V), which is bigger than the iPhone XS’s battery, but it is slightly smaller than the 3,179mAh battery on the iPhone XS Max. It is thicker since it packs more juice.
This reveals a recetangular battery, unlike L-shaped battery on the iPhone X, XS and XS Max. This has a rectangular single-decker logic board.
Apple has used 64GB flash storage from Toshiba (TSB3243VC0428CHNA1) and 4GB LPDDR4X RAM from Micron Technology (MT53D384M64D4SB-046 XT:E). It has Apple 338S00383-A0, 338S00375-A1 power management IC from Dialog Systems.
This time Apple has gone solely with Intel’s LTE modem, as confirmed by Qualcomm earlier. All the models have PMB9955 Baseband Processor (Modem) and Intel PMIC (PMB5829). It is Intel’s XMM7560 modem, which is the company’s fifth-generation LTE modem designed via Intel’s 14nm manufacturing process. This offers download speed of up to 1 Gbps download (Cat 16) and 150 Mbps upload (Cat 13) speed.
It reveals a modular SIM card reader, a first for iPhone. This lets you easily replace it when there is an issue SIM reader, and also reduces the cost of replacing the logic board. It uses ST Microelectronics ST33G1M2 32 bit MCU embedded SIM (eSIM) with ARM SecurCore SC300, same as the one in the iPhone XS, XS Max, Apple Watch Series 3 and the Google Pixel 2 XL.
iFixit has given the iPhone XS and XS Max a 6/10 rating, same as the iPhone X, XS and XS Max saying that glass on front and back doubles the crackability—and broken back glass requires an entire chassis replacement. It uses uncommon Pentalobe and tri-point screws and waterproofing measures complicate some repairs.