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Man queues overnight to buy iPhone 3GS... and take it to bits

London teardown

Tony Smith

Fri 19 Jun 2009 // 13:08 UTC

iFixit open iPhone 3GS

The motherboard, complete with Apple-branded Samsung ARM CPU and 16GB of ~~Samsung~~ Toshiba Flash

iFixit open iPhone 3GS

The battery - 1219mAh; 1150mAh on the 3G - is not soldered onto the mobo

iFixit open iPhone 3GS

All the bits... now put 'em all back together

You can find a whole lot more at iFixit's teardown site.

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