iPhone 5′s Innards Exposed? Bigger Screen, Bigger Battery, A5 Chip Spotted

By on September 19, 2011 in Miscellaneous

If it’s got an Apple logo next to the letter ‘A’ and the number ’5′ it must be the chip that powers iPad 2. Unless it’s the chip destined to power iPhone 5.

Weibo, a Chinese site that @Grg describes as “(if Twitter and Facebook had a baby that only spoke Chinese, that’d be Weibo),” posted a photo of what they claim to be a tear-down of the next iPhone. Lurking inside of iPhone 5? The iPad 2′s A5 processor, a 4.2v, 1430 mAh battery that’s just barely bigger and badder than the one in iPhone 4, and what looks like an edge-to-edge LCD backpanel.

Assuming this is the real deal, iPhone 5′s innards match up pretty nicely with Rumored iPhone 5‘s innards. There’s that dual-core processor. There’s that bigger display affording a smaller, “edgeless” bezel. And there’s the bigger battery necessary to power it all.

We all keep hearing October 15, October 15, Viva le 15 Octobre! for iPhone 5′s ship date. Which would mean a launch date of a week or two before that. Which, frankly, can’t come soon enough. Unless you’re a tech website riding the rumor mill to record traffic land. Or one of Samsung’s Korea-based lawyers.

Whatcha think? Are these really the next iPhone’s innards?

[Via: TechCrunch]

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Noah Kravitz mourned the day that Star Castle was replaced in the pizza parlour he frequented as a kid. The sadness ended when he saw an older kid make it to the Ninth Key level on the Pac Man that took his place. Years later he’s become a fixture of consumer tech reporting on the InterWebs and TV, and Galaga vies with Zoo Keeper as his all-time favorite arcade games. His loves of music, games, TV, video editing and yapping endlessly at anyone who’ll listen have all been channeled into an Internet addiction that spans screens big and small and devices portable, pocketable, and best left on his desk. Noah has been reporting on gadgets and media for a decade and a half now, including writing, podcasts and videos for PhoneDog, MacDirectory, Maximum PC, PowerBook Central, and a few other publications. He’s also written about the arts, education, and sports for some magazines you’ve likely never heard of, and has invaded your television talking about consumer electronics on CNBC, Fox Business Network, and a host of local TV stations.

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