Orders for the brand new iPhone 12 mini have began arriving for patrons, and the staff at iFixit did a two-part teardown—of each an EU and US mannequin— to determine how Apple managed to incorporate 5G {hardware} and the same old iPhone elements into such a bit of machine.
The very first thing you discover wanting on the inside photos is the smaller battery within the mini, which measures as much as comparable iPhone fashions surprisingly nicely, iFixit finds, with 8.57 Wh.
“That’s extra juice than the iPhone SE 2020‘s 6.96 Wh, however understandably in need of the ten.78 Wh of the usual 12 it’s stacked on prime of,” iFixit notes. It’s lower than the ten.78 Wh of the iPhone 12 battery, although.
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The Taptic Engine, audio system, and MagSafe ring are all included within the mini in smaller variations to save lots of house. However Apple managed to suit the same-sized digital camera as its different iPhone fashions into the mini, which iFixit suggests might have come on the expense of battery life— one thing The Verge’s Dieter Bohn encountered in our iPhone mini evaluation.
The mini digital camera has the identical ƒ/1.6 wide-angle and ƒ/2.4 extremely wide-angle cameras discovered within the iPhone 12, the teardown exhibits.
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General, iFixit discovered the iPhone 12 mini to be fairly much like its bigger counterparts: “The iPhone 12 mini is a small cellphone with large ambitions. We’re shocked by how acquainted the internals look in comparison with different iPhones this yr, given the variations in measurement amongst them.”
Try iFixit’s full iPhone 12 mini teardown right here. And see what The Verge reviewers consider the brand new iPhone fashions:
