Raise your hand if, as a child, you were more interested in the construction of toys than in the experience of using them, so you happily got all kinds of structures for your pieces. Video sharing is the hotbed of such manias, and this way we can get relevant information about the durability, structure and repairability of a mobile phone.
With its dynamic island and no SIM tray in North America, only programmable eSIM, the two iPhone 14 Pros have undoubtedly changed a lot in a year, and in the video above, the Pro Max is put on the operating table – spoilers: survive the intervention. Everything starts with disassembling the 6.7″ XDR OLED panel, and this is where the biggest damage usually occurs, when unroutine people try to separate the delicate display from the stainless steel frame, which is protected by a strong adhesive to keep water out.
The more compact TrueDepth camera system is on top (source: PBKreviews) [+]
For this process, PBKreviews gives Apple only half of two possible points, but as soon as the 2000 nits and 120 Hz display is carefully removed, a familiar, organized and much easier to replace component list is revealed, with quite a few screws, connectors and heat sinks . Since it is significantly easier and faster to disassemble them, plus there is a wide selection of replacement components, the availability of the part received two points, and the battery and display replacement each collected one and a half points out of a possible 2. On the other hand, there are components, such as the charging port, which are more difficult to access, and these earned a one-point rating.
The assumed satellite unit is on the far right (source: PBKreviews) [+]
Taken together, the source evaluates the repairability as 6.5 points out of 10. There are interesting things inside: there is of course no SIM tray, so there was no room for it on the frame, but there is a new chip that presumably can handle emergency satellite communication. You can see the 4 nm Apple A16 Bionic chip supported by serious heat dissipation, the L-shaped 4323 mAh battery (it lost 29 mAh in a year) and the smaller TrueDepth camera system, which peace received instead on the island of dynamics.
