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| [* black] Back to that 3D Touch-less display—we expected to find a slight but measurable difference in thinness, but it sure doesn't look that way from here. The iPhone 8 display (left) looks pretty much identical to the SE's (right). Are they secretly the same? | |
| - | [* black] Not so fast! On 3D Touch screens, we'd normally find a chip on the back that drives the parallel plate capacitors (as seen in our [guide|48170|6S teardown|stepid=107873|new_window=true]). The iPhone SE display (on the right in [https://d3nevzfk7ii3be.cloudfront.net/igi/ |
| + | [* black] Not so fast! On 3D Touch screens, we'd normally find a chip on the back that drives the parallel plate capacitors (as seen in our [guide|48170|6S teardown|stepid=107873|new_window=true]). The iPhone SE display (on the right in [https://d3nevzfk7ii3be.cloudfront.net/igi/t2cQRvMKBbD3ZWqq|this photo|new_window=true]) doesn’t have that chip, just a blank window where the chip ''would'' be. |
| [* black] And the layer of capacitors? We start peeling off display parts in an attempt to confirm... | |
| [* black] Confirmed. No 3D Touch. | |
| [* black] On the bright side, the two displays are functionally interchangeable, which is kind of amazing considering the difference in hardware—the 8 display works on the SE, and vice versa. | |
| [* icon_reminder] Before you get any ideas about adding 3D Touch to your new iPhone SE though, we tried it, and it doesn't work. |