The iPhone revolutionized consumer technology, helping to create an application-based economy and propelling Apple (AAPL) to $ 2 trillion market capitalization. After launching iPhones in January 2007, Apple has sold 2 billion units worldwide, with phones being the company’s biggest source of revenue.
And while Apple designs the phone in Cupertino, California, the technology giant supplies parts to the phone from manufacturers around the world. Apple’s biggest and latest, the iPhone 12, is no different, with parts coming from Japan, the United States, Europe, China and South Korea.
This is where the parts that make up your iPhone come from.
A Samsung monitor
Apple often relies on Samsung to produce the OLED panels used for the iPhone’s Super Retina XDR display, despite the rivalry of the two tech giants, according to several sources, including Wired. It also uses panels from Samsung’s competitor, LG, giving the iPhone one of the best smartphone screens on the market.
In previous generations, Apple used OLED panels for its next generation Pro iPhone models and LCD panels for standard iPhone models. LCD panels are generally brighter than OLEDs, but cannot offer the type of vibration or energy savings of OLED monitors. With the iPhone 12, Apple changed the entire line to OLED, giving all phones the same screen style.
A14 Bionic processor
The heart of each iPhone 12 is Apple’s A14 Bionic processor. The chip, based on the UK’s ARM architecture and designed by Apple, is among the most advanced smartphone processors in the world.
Using a 5 nanometer design process, something that not even the chip maker Intel produced at scale, the A14 has a central processing unit and a graphics processing unit, as well as a 16-core neural mechanism for learning capabilities. machine. Inside, the A14 uses two high-powered CPU cores (central processing unit) for resource-intensive processes and four energy-intensive CPU cores to handle more basic applications.
Camera CMOS image sensor
The iPhone 12 Pro receives three new cameras that allow you to take wide-angle, ultra-wide and telephoto photos. Sony’s CMOS image sensor (SNE) is powering these lenses.
For the iPhone 12 line, Apple added a number of new features across the line. The basic iPhone and the mini iPhone have two camera lenses, one wide-angle and one ultra-wide-angle, and a new low-light shooting mode that was lacking in the basic iPhone 11.
The iPhone 12 Pro and iPhone 12 Pro Max, in turn, get enhanced low light capture capabilities, as well as additional telephoto lenses. In the 12 Pro, the telephoto lens can zoom up to 2x, while the 12 Pro Max can zoom up to 2.5x, offering a deeper zoom for sharper looking images captured from a distance.
Drums
One of the most important aspects of any smartphone is its battery. And for the iPhone 12, Apple relied on Amperex technology to provide the power it needs to keep its phones running all day.
Apple says the iPhone 12 Pro Max battery offers up to 20 hours of video playback on a single charge, while the 12 Pro has 17 hours. The 12 and 12 mini have 17 hours and 15 hours, respectively. It makes sense that larger phones receive longer battery life, as their larger sizes mean additional space for more robust batteries.
5G Antenna
The first iPhones with next generation 5G cellphone capabilities, the iPhone 12s perform especially well with consumers. 5G, which is still in its infancy in the United States, offers much faster network speeds than 4G LTE, leading to improved uploads and downloads and lower latency.
Analysts like Dan Ives, from Wedbush, have long predicted a so-called “super cycle” of sales above average for the last generation thanks to the addition of 5G, and this thesis seems to be correct.
Demand for phones led Apple to increase production of the iPhone 12, with the company hoping to build 96 million units in the first half of 2021, an increase of 30% year on year.
While there are rumors that Apple is developing its own 5G chip for future devices, the iPhone 12 relies on Qualcomm’s 5G module (QCOM) to ensure it works with today’s 5G networks.
Memory chip
According to the iFixit technology repair website, the iPhone 12 storage chips are made by Kioxia. The amount of storage you will get from your iPhone depends on the version you are opting for. The basic iPhone 12 and the iPhone 12 mini have 64 GB, 128 GB and 256 GB of storage. The iPhone 12 Pro, iPhone 12 Pro and iPhone 12 Pro Max have 128 GB, 256 GB and 512 GB of storage.
One of the most important decisions you will make when purchasing your iPhone is the amount of memory to be purchased. Very little and you’ll be deleting photos and apps and using the cloud for storage. Furthermore, you are paying for something you don’t need.
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