iFixit Tears Down the iPhone Air, Finds That It's Mostly Battery (arstechnica.com)
- Reference: 0179475004
- News link: https://apple.slashdot.org/story/25/09/22/223236/ifixit-tears-down-the-iphone-air-finds-that-its-mostly-battery
- Source link: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/09/iphone-air-teardown-reveals-a-phone-thats-more-durable-repairable-than-expected/
The top-heavy component layout addresses the bendgate vulnerability that damaged logic boards in previous thin iPhone models when pressure was applied to the device's middle section. Despite the iPhone Air's thinner profile, iFixit awarded it a 7 out of 10 repairability score, citing reduced component layering that provides more direct access to the USB-C connector, battery, and other serviceable parts compared to standard iPhone models. The dual-entry system further contributes to the device's serviceability.
[1] https://www.ifixit.com/News/113171/iphone-air-teardown
[2] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/09/iphone-air-teardown-reveals-a-phone-thats-more-durable-repairable-than-expected/
Bendgate (Score:3)
Why don't we stop calling every single scandal "*gate" and just start calling them what they are - total fuck-ups?
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"Watergate involved Nixon, dumbass." LOL
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Who down mods someone laughing? LOL The reply was correct, Nixon not Clinton.
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Yes, the -gate habit comes from the Watergate scandal. Watergate was during Richard Nixon's second term as president, in 1972-4. He was a Republican, and resigned the presidency before he could be impeached. The name comes from an attempted break in at the Democratic Party headquarters in the Watergate complex in Washington DC that ended up uncovering a whole pile of shady stuff Nixon had been up to.
Are Americans actually this ignorant of their own history?
Moores's law works on all but the battery (Score:2)
Everything else has been shrunk down to microscopic levels.
While we have had significant progress in batteries, battery improvements have been linear, while most of the rest of the components have had exponential improvements.
So the battery grows while everything else shrinks. Now the battery is the largest component. Likely to stay that way, too.
Apple is a cult (Score:1)
If you want longer battery life, then don't get an iPhone. There are plenty of bigger phones with batteries that last for days. They are not Apple. They work. They are cheaper. Or are you in a cult, where only iPhones are allowed? Then stop complaining and follow your Apple guru and buy a new phone every year. Apple needs money!
That's not bad (Score:2)
If you could make it 99% battery and still perform well, that would be great, because its just more battery time.
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Oh they could easily make it more battery by making a bigger battery. But thinner better, so we get this instead.
As to the interpretation of the problem of bendgate, that's a bit rich. Nobody cared about the logic board bending and breaking, the issue was all of the phone bending and breaking. Which is going to happen again with this one.
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> If you could make it 99% battery and still perform well, that would be great, because its just more battery time.
I dunno, I just read the NYtimes review, and if you disregard all the attempts at some balance so that Apple doesn't stop giving them ad dollars, it's a straight up bad review.
The review was saying they couldn't even get 12 hours out of that 99%, they could barely get 10 (Apple claims 27). And that it was getting red hot just having a normal phone call.
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They were probably just holding it wrong
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In the video the tear down tech stated people are just barely getting a day out of the battery life. I would much rather have a phone 3 times as thick with a battery to match. I miss the days of being able to carry extra phone batteries when needed. Bring back a phone in the style of the LG enV3; that was my favorite phone ever.