iPhone 5 easier to repair than iPhone 4S: Tech experts

Apple’s latest offering, the iPhone 5, is much easier to repair than the 4S or 4 devices, according to tech gadget team, iFixit. The iFixit team has done its usual tear-down of the iPhone 5 and by all indications they like what they see. For pictures of what the iPhone 5 looks like from inside click here.

The team has good news for Apple fans saying that fixing the iPhone 5 should be easier. The team writes,

What’s this? A suction cup? We haven’t needed a suction cup to get into an iPhone since the 3GS!
Because the iPhone 5 is opened front-to-back, replacing a cracked screen is going to be easier than ever. Thank you, Apple. Compare this to the iPhone 4S, where it took 38 steps to isolate the display assembly, and this iPhone may be the most repairable iPhone we’ve seen in a while.

You can check out the complete post by iFixit here.

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When Apple had launched the MacBook Pro with Retina Display, earlier this year, iFixit had said that the device was virtually unrepairable, adding that upgrading would not be an easy option. The blog which dismantled Apple’s latest offering gave it a lowly 1 out 10 as repair score.

The iPhone 5 has done much better, scoring seven out of 10 as far as repairability is concerned.

iFixit also revealed details on Apple’s A6 chip. Unlike Samsung or HTC or any other smartphone company, Apple never reveals the processor speed for its chips. According to iFixit: The A6 processor is the first Apple System-on-Chip (SoC) to use a custom design, based off the ARMv7 instruction set.

Another tech team UBM TechInsights that has disassembled the iPhone 5 has a complete detailed analysis on Apple’s A6 chip. The big question has been whether Samsung probably had a role to play in parts of the chip. There were reports that Apple had reduced chip orders from Samsung due to the bitterness over patents case in San Jose, California.