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A smartphone, exploded

An isometric teardown: every layer and component of a phone, lifted apart and explained.

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Everything on this diagram

The same content as the picture, as text: every part and what it says when you open it.

The back panel. Glass rather than metal, because metal would block the magnetic field wireless charging depends on.

Several cameras behind one raised window - typically wide, ultra-wide and telephoto - with optical image stabilisation on at least one.

A flat copper coil. Laid on a charging pad, it picks up energy from the pad's own coil by induction - no contacts.

The structural chassis everything is fixed to. The plastic breaks in its edges let the antennas inside it work.

The phone's computer: the processor, memory, storage and the radios, often on two boards stacked to save space.

A lithium-ion pouch cell, the largest single part, held in with stretch-release adhesive so it can be replaced.

A linear actuator: a small mass driven back and forth by a magnet, for crisp taps rather than a rattle.

Type: Linear resonant actuator

The bottom speaker, paired with the earpiece at the top for stereo.

Paired with: The earpiece, for stereo

Every pixel makes its own light, so black is simply off - no backlight. The touch sensor is built into the same panel.

The glass you touch: chemically strengthened, with a coating that sheds fingerprints, bonded to the display beneath.