An iPhone release means a trip to the future—the iFixit teardown crew has traveled 17 hours forward in time to get the iPhone 5s early.

We want to send out a big thanks to our good friends at MacFixit Australia for letting us use their office in Melbourne for the teardown. They stock Mac and iPhone upgrades/accessories, and also carry our .

To cover all our bases, we confirmed with our best linguists that the 5s upside-down is still the 5s.

Speaking of toolkits, for this teardown, we'll be using iFixit's brand-new .