Apple iPhone 14 Pro disassembly
While the iPhone 14 is physically similar to the iPhone 13, Apple’s updates to the underlying technologies offer significant improvements that will be of interest to many in the high-tech industry, despite the lukewarm reviews compared to the iPhone 13, including Eve Jobs’s.
NEW YORK (PRWEB)
September 29, 2022
The Intellectual Property division of UnitedLex, a leading data and professional legal services company, completed teardowns of the Apple iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Pro, revealing subtle but significant changes in underlying technologies and processes of the iPhone 13. Of an Intellectual Property ( IP) perspective, teardowns of the iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Pro offer a unique look at Apple’s latest innovations and recently patented and licensed technologies.
In recent years, UnitedLex has conducted teardown analyzes of more than 50 hardware products, including the Apple iPhone, Samsung Galaxy, Google Pixel, Sony PS5, Huawei Mate, One Plus 7 Pro, and more. With estimates indicating that IP theft costs US companies between $225 billion and $600 billion a year, the UnitedLex IP team’s cutting-edge research is helping identify potential IP opportunities, particularly with regard to semiconductor chips and other high-tech technologies. devices. IP and build a successful forward-looking IP strategy.
“While the iPhone 14 is physically similar to the iPhone 13, Apple’s updates to the underlying technologies provide significant improvements that will be of interest to many in the high-tech industry, despite the lukewarm reviews compared to the iPhone 13, including Eve Jobs’s,” noted Joe Dearing, Executive Vice President – Intellectual Property at UnitedLex. “What’s unique is our ability to physically analyze technology to show how it’s being used and implemented, while providing an inside look at Apple’s patent strategy.”
Key findings of both iPhone 14 models:
- eSIM for US models: iPhone models in the US no longer have a SIM tray and rely entirely on the eSIM for cellular connectivity.
- Increased 5G Band Support: Support for the largest number of 5G bands (25 bands) compared to any other smartphone.
- Upgraded Modems: Apple uses Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X65 5G modem along with the PMX65 PMIC, an upgrade of the X60 5G modem in the latest-generation iPhone. Both iPhone 14s are equipped with a pair of Qualcomm SDR735 RF transceivers for 5G NR (sub 6 GHz, FR1), LTE and legacy RATs; Last year’s iPhone range used Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 888 5G Modem-RF system.
- Single Antenna Row: A single row antenna array indicates that the patch antennas for different frequency bands are likely stacked on the substate. A similar implementation of a single row antenna was also found on the Samsung Galaxy S22 ultra devices with QTM545 antenna modules.
- Alternative form of camera stabilization: The main camera on both phones (and the telephoto camera on the iPhone 14 Pro) features Sensor-shift Optical Image Stabilization (OIS) applied to the image sensor instead of the lens to accurately capture movement in X and Y Control directions while maintaining sharpness. Apple has also introduced a new action mode that allows video to adapt to judder, movement, and vibration when captured in the middle of an action.
- Auto Accident Detection: Implemented by iPhone 14’s HDR gyroscope, dual-core accelerometer, barometer, GPS and microphone; emergency SOS via satellite allows access to emergency services when there is no cellular or Wi-Fi connection.
Key findings specific to the iPhone 14 Pro:
- iPhone 14 Pro powered by Apple’s A16 Bionic chip: Features an Apple-designed 64-bit six-core CPU that implements ARMv9 with two high-performance cores called Everest and four power-efficient cores called Sawtooth and consists of 16 billion transistors.
- Camera upgrades: The 48MP main camera on the iPhone 14 Pro has a 65% larger sensor than the iPhone 13 Pro. The 12MP ultra-wide-angle camera now has an f/2.2 aperture compared to the f/1.8-aperture ultra-wide camera on the iPhone 13 Pro. The 12MP telephoto camera has an f/1.78 aperture compared to the f/2.8 aperture on the iPhone 13 Pro.
Key findings specific to the iPhone 14:
- Remove iPhone 14 back cover: For the first time since iPhone 7 (2016), iPhone 14 components can only be accessed from the back of the smartphone.
- Camera Upgrade: The 12MP main camera on the iPhone 14 has an f/1.5 aperture compared to the f/1.6 aperture of the iPhone 13.
Watch a video of the teardown: https://unitedlex.com/insights/video-teardown-whats-inside-the-apple-iphone-14-pro/
Download “Apple iPhone 14 Pro Teardown” for the full report with a full analysis of various components, their makers and explanations of Apple’s implementations.
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