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iPhone 5c Teardown

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You've seen the internals, but a new question remains…Will it bend?

We may not have super strength, but we put this case to the muscle test, anyway. The results: this lacquered plastic is as strong and blue as Captain Planet.

It's good to know that, though the rear panel is made with plastic to presumably cut costs, Apple did not compromise build quality in the process.

Next we rip out the 5c's still-beating heart ports.

Much like internal organs, these ports are connected, so there is no easy way to get at just one of them.

Continuing this analogy, our ideal person, much like our ideal device, would be modular like this (work safe, we promise).