Liam Powell

It is integrated inside of the A12 SoC.

melting a circuit board apart is hard, and stuff gets shifted.

This phone is really similar to the X, but the battery thing is interesting.

It’s IR. Human eyes can’t see it, so unlocking with Face ID is essentially just staring at it, and from the user’s perspective, it magically unlocks. No visible flashing here!

You’re going to have to realign them all manually. Also, I’m pretty sure you could, but use it sparingly.

I don’t see why you ever would, and it would be hard to find the proper connectors.

There is no in screen touch ID. Just Face ID, and there’s no fingerprint reader anywhere on the phone.

I think those are inductors, and the white spot indicates the right direction for them to go on the board.

Yes, I think the OLED panel is considerably thinner. The X and 8 are pretty much the same thickness, so I think that that yes, it’s solely because of the OLED!

Yes, it would be correct to say those are mics. The audio quality is probably fine though.