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-[* black] We're not noticing many differences between the iPhone 8 X-ray (middle) and the SE X-ray (right), save for a bit of lens distortion between the two images.
- [* black] The two changes that really stand out are some minor antenna changes at the top-left corner of the phone, and some rearranging of the chips on the logic board.
- [* icon_note] What we really thought we'd see here were changes to the antenna layout to drive the new gigabit LTE (MIMO) and/or Wi-Fi 6 features. On the [https://d3nevzfk7ii3be.cloudfront.net/igi/gnjGTffankgehqFL.full|iPhone XS|new_window=true], the new breaks in the frame were very noticeable over the X. Not so with the SE and 8.
-[* black] Nevertheless, there's much to explore! It's nice when our friends at [https://creativeelectron.com/|Creative Electron|new_window=true] can do our job for us, but I guess we'll have to roll up our sleeves and put in some investigative work ourselves this time.
+[* black] Before a teardown, you can always count on us to kick the tires. (Fortunately it won't cost us [https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2020/4/16/21223403/apple-mac-pro-wheel-kit-price-tires-lawn-mower-go-kart-jeep|$700|new_window=true] this time.)
+[* black] We'll wheel it over to the teardown table in a moment, but first we submit the SE for X-ray inspection—courtesy of our clever friends at [https://creativeelectron.com/|Creative Electron|new_window=true]—along with its predecessors, the original SE (left) and iPhone 8 (center).
+ [* black] If you can spot any major internal differences from the iPhone 8, your eyes are sharper than ours. Apart from some very subtle antenna rework and moving a few chips around the logic board, we can't tell what Apple's been up to yet.
+ [* icon_note] What we ''expected'' to see here were changes to the antenna layout to drive the new gigabit LTE (MIMO) and/or Wi-Fi 6 features. On the [https://d3nevzfk7ii3be.cloudfront.net/igi/gnjGTffankgehqFL.full|iPhone XS|new_window=true], the new breaks in the frame were very noticeable over the X. Not so with the SE and 8.