Barely hours after the launch, the good folks down at AnandTech have already dissected their iPhone.

To quote from them:

Please note that we’re doing this so you are not tempted to on your recent $500/$600 expenditure, while it is quite possible to take apart using easy to find tools we’d recommend against it as it will undoubtedly void your warranty and will most likely mar up the beautiful gadget’s exterior.

What struck me was just how compact the PCB containing the motherboard and NAND Flash was. Well, a picture speaks a thousand words, so hop on over and read Apple’s iPhone Dissected: We did it, so you don’t have to.

If you are still hungry for iPhone news now that it has launched, John has wrote a very nice roundup in I-Day iPhone perspective: News you can use as well.

Editor’s note

TechRepublic has also dissected the iPhone as part of its Cracking Open series:

Plus, we’ve also got three videos that explain why and how we did it: