iFixit does a number on iPhone 4′s gyroscope

on 06/30/2010, filed in Home > Apple

Seems that iFixit wasn’t just content at taking the iPhone 4 apart, as they have also gone the proverbial extra mile by taking the latest hot selling Apple smartphone’s gyroscope apart, where it was found out that said gyroscope is extremely close in nature to an off-the-shelf STMicroelectronics L3G4200D gyroscope. While this bit of news might interest the more hardcore Apple fans among you, casual readers might just catch the teardown bug and admire the intricacies as well as hard work that went into putting an iPhone 4 together. Miniaturization of parts have certainly come a long way, hasn’t it?

iPhone: iPhone: The iPhone is Apple's line of smartphones. That was also the original name of the first iPhone, which was announced on January 9th 2007 by Steve Jobs during the Macworld Keynote. The iPhone was released to the public in June of the same year. The development of the iPhone started in 2004, was internally called "project purple" and was the fruit of a collaboration between Apple and AT&T. Since then, Apple has released new iPhone models every year, with the iPhone 3G in July 2008, the iPhone 3GS in June 2009, the iPhone 4 in June 2010, the iPhone 4S in October 2011 and the iPhone 5 in September 2012. The iPhone represented more than half of Apple's revenues in 2012.

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