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iFixit pries open HTCOne to reveal its aluminum unibody
After struggling for over half an hour the 4.7 inch, full HD HTCOne finally yielded and revealed its impressive aluminum unibody. HTChas said that it worked hard to create a phone with a zero gap construction, and the HTCOne features a completely seamless body. To do this, the unibody is made using an electro-chemical etching process to achieve the perfect fit and finish!
OK, enough oozing over the unibody. The phone is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 quad-core 1.7 GHz CPU and has 2 GB of DDR2 RAM. The flash memory comes from Samsung and the 4G GSM/UMTS/LTE modem is made by Qualcomm. The final bit of comms magic comes from Broadcom in the form of a single-chip 5G W-Fi 802.11ac MAC/baseband/radio with Bluetooth 4.0+HS & FM receiver.
On the power front the HTCOne uses a 3.8 V battery rated at 2300 mAh. For comparison, the Galaxy S III has a 3.8 V, 2100 mAh battery, while the iPhone 5 has a 3.8 V, 1440 mAh battery. The debate over sealed batteries versus user replaceable batteries is sure to continue especially since the HTCOne battery is almost impossible to replace, even by skilled technicians!
Other things to note about the HTCOne are its 2.1 MP front-facing camera; its f/2.0 UltraPixel camera powered by a 4 MP backside-illuminated sensor from ST Microelectronics; and its Beats Audio dual-speakers.
What do you think? Does its repairability worry you? Does the impressive unibody compensate for any repairability concerns?
