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Orders for the new iPhone 12 mini have started to trickle down to customers, and the iFixit team performed a two-part teardown of both the EU and US model to find out how Apple managed to include 5G hardware and the usual components of the iPhone in such a small device.
The first thing you notice when looking at the internal images is the smaller battery in the mini, which compares surprisingly well to similar iPhone models, iFixit finds, at 8.57 Wh.
“That’s more power than the 6.96 Wh in the 2020 iPhone SE, but understandably less than the 10.78 Wh in the standard 12 on which it is stacked,” notes iFixit. However, it is less than the 10.78 Wh of the iPhone 12 battery.
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The Taptic engine, speakers and MagSafe ring are included in the mini in smaller versions to save space. But Apple managed to put the camera the same size as its other iPhone models in the mini, which iFixit suggests may have been at the expense of battery life, somewhat. The edgeDieter Bohn found in our iPhone mini review.
The mini camera has the same ƒ / 1.6 wide-angle and ƒ / 2.4 ultra-wide cameras found on the iPhone 12, teardown shows.
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Overall, iFixit found the iPhone 12 mini to be quite similar to its larger counterparts: “The iPhone 12 mini is a small phone with big ambitions. We’re surprised how familiar the internals look compared to other iPhones this year, given the size differences between them. “
Check out iFixit’s full iPhone 12 mini teardown here. And see what The edge critics think of the new iPhone models:
