Volume (spatial). It takes up a ton of room inside the phone that could be battery.<p>I&#x27;m not particularly excited about it, but it&#x27;s obvious why they&#x27;d want to do this, even if the phone doesn&#x27;t get thinner, based on this picture from an iFixit teardown:
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