After we free a few standard Phillips screws, the earpiece speaker practically falls out from under the front-facing camera.

This new earpiece speaker does double duty—for the first time, it also serves as a loudspeaker, giving the iPhone stereo sound for those times when you need to rock out and you might not have any place to plug in your headphones.

The front-facing camera cable assembly is a little more of a handful. Normally when we're served something this tangled up, it comes with meatballs.

All told, the upper components number:

Front-facing camera

MEMS Microphone

Stereo-enabling speaker

Proximity sensor and ambient light sensor