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iPhone XS and XS Max Teardown

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After dissecting the brains and the eyes, we take a look at the brawn powering these phones.

The XS packs a 10.13 Wh battery (2,659 mAh at 3.81 V), weighing 39.5 g—slightly downgraded from last year's X.

But this decrease in capacity comes with a wild new battery configuration. Rather than using two cells to fill this L-shaped recess, Apple has constructed an all-new single-cell battery.

The XS Max battery unsurprisingly comes out on top capacity-wise, with 12.08 Wh (3,179 mAh at 3.80 V), and weighing 46.6 g. No single-cell here, though!

These are both in the ballpark of the S9 and S9+ batteries, but far smaller than that of the Note9.

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