Ifixit Tears Down Iphone 4S 512Mb Ram Confirmed New Qualcomm Mdm6610 Chip Discovered

The teardown is in progress. Notes of interest:

• The extra .05W/hrs battery increases talk time by an hour but for some reason (likely additional background processes with notifications), standby time is reduced from 300 to 200 hrs
• “Pentalobe Screws, again?”
• The A5 processor is rated at 1GHz (like iPad obv.) but is underclocked for battery saving purposes. That doesn’t mean an update (or hack) in the future could boost speed to iPad levels.
• The iPhone 4S logic board bears a close resemblance to its stateside CDMA counterpart.
• The Qualcomm chip updated from MDM6600 to MDM6610. There isn’t much out on the 6610 right now but we’re investigating.
• It looks like there really is only 512MB of RAM. AnandTech says:

We’re updating as things develop.