iPhone 5 Component Price

Have you Pre-ordered for the most amazing iPhone, iPhone 5? It is the most amazing iPhone 5 which is the thinnest Smartphone in the world. The secret behind such thin iPhone is the in-Cell technology which costs Apple some extra bucks. However, are you curious to know the building cost of your iPhone 5?



Recently, UBM TechInsights did an analysis of the price of iPhone 5. According to this analysis, iPhone 5 parts cost Apple $167.50. Moreover, the Price of the iPhone 4S parts is $132 only while the even older iPhone 4 parts are causing $122. In short, the iPhone 5 costs Apple $35.50 extras as compared to previous versioniPhone 4S. Let’s take a look on the individual parts.

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iPhone 5 Components

UBM TechInsights, known for studying the internals of mobile devices and other products by disassembling them, on Wednesday came up with a preliminary analysis  in advance of taking the new handset apart. The bottom line: Apple  is paying about $167.50 for hardware components in a 16-gigabyte iPhone 5, versus $132.50 for the iPhone 4S.

But don’t fret about Apple’s profit margin on the device, which should remain healthy. Keep in mind that the company gets considerably more from carriers than the $199 that customers pay with a service contract. (Exactly how much they pay isn’t disclosed, but the unsubsidized price of the handset is expected to be $649, the same as the iPhone 4S).

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What is Talk Time?

Talk time is the officially quoted longest time that a single battery charge will last when you are constantly talking on the phone.

The talk time is highly dependent on the cellular network environment such as the distance to the closest GSM cell tower. Moving fast while talking (as in a vehicle) also negatively affects battery life.

Manufacturers measure talk time in controlled conditions and the quoted numbers are rarely reached in real-life scenarios. These numbers are best used as reference when comparing phones from the same manufacturer because battery life measurement methodology will probably vary from manufacturer to manufacturer.

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AMOLED

AMOLED is an emerging display technology used in portable devices like mobile phones. Active-matrix OLED displays provide the same performance as their passive-matrix OLED counterparts, but they consume significantly less power.

Active matrix (AM) OLED displays stack cathode, organic, and anode layers on top of another layer – or substrate – that contains circuitry. The pixels are defined by the deposition of the organic material in a continuous, discrete “dot” pattern. Each pixel is activated directly: A corresponding circuit delivers voltage to the cathode and anode materials, stimulating the middle organic layer. AM OLED pixels turn on and off more than three times faster than the speed of conventional motion picture film – making these displays ideal for fluid, full-motion video.

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Mobile Satellite Antennas

Keeping mobile satellite TV antennas pointing in the right direction

Watching satellite TV at home is nothing remarkable, watching it in the back of a car on the road or boat at sea is. Keeping the antenna ('dish') of a satellite TV receiver pointing in the right part of the sky when its attached to your house is easy, your house usually stays in one place. Moving vehicles however can rotate in pitch, yaw and roll quite quickly and the antenna must be constantly driven to the same point in the sky regardless of the vehicle attitude, and quite accurately unless you like a fuzzy picture.

So how does the antenna know where to point?

By attaching gyroscopes which measure angular speed the antenna can determine the direction and velocity of vehicle rotation very accurately, allowing the azimuth and elevation servo-loops in the receiver to back this motion off. ALTHERIS' CRS03 single-axis angular rate gyroscopes are ideally suited to the job.

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Gyroscope

 

we have to be amazed knowing how many hardwares are packed inside these small hand-held devices. They can tell where they are geographically, they can sense proximity, they can sense linear orientation of the phone to auto rotate your photos and now they can also determine your rotation while you are spinning on a swivel chair. Smartphones are just getting smarter.

An Accelerometer can measure linear acceleration relative to a frame of reference. This is used to sense the orientation of the phone. It added a lot of cool functionality to mobile phone. The UI(user interface) can be automatically rotated either in portrait or landscape mode, depending on the phone's orientation. This also opened up a new avenue for all the gamers. Imagine one has to play a car racing game without the support of accelerometer. Every time the car needs a turn, he has to make a gesture on the touch screen using his finger while holding the phone, not to mention there may be other touch controls also which user has to deal with. Accelerometer completely enhanced the gaming experience to another level, now we can turn the car just by tilting the phone in the desired direction. A lot of cool games were developed using accelerometer.

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NFC

Near Field Communications (or NFC for short) is to be used in one of the most promising future payment systems in the US, Isis. Japan has integrated something similar to this quite a while ago with their Mobile Felica wireless payment system, and all of the new phones support it, giving them the possibility to pay for groceries, electronics, and train tickets with nothing more than a swipe of their phone over the receiving sensor. NFC is also the perfect solution for the virtual business card problem. A lot of companies and developers have tried solving it with universal software and other add-ons, but failed. With an NFC chip in every phone, everyone gets the ability to send any data to anyone else s phone.

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