Iphone 6 Serial Number Decode

Here’s how to decode your iPhone’s serial number. You can find your serial number either on your iPhone’s box, or in the About menu within the Settings app. If your device is connected to.

If the vendor won't tell you what it is in anything other than the most general of terms, then I'd buy the particular widget only as parts or as scrap. And only at a price commensurate with that viewpoint.
On the pull-out tag on the back of the Intel Xserve boxes (same tag as the chassis serial number, adjacent to the network jacks) is a full system description of the box as was shipped, as well as the box model number.
According to the Chipmunk serial number decoder, that's a 1.33 GHz PPC box manufactured circa 2003.

I just got a replacement iPhone 4 for the iLemon that I've been blogging about here lately and, so far anyway, the Bluetooth problem seems to have disappeared.

I have to look for the first number from left to right, correct? Its the year,but can be the factory. How do I know it? Example: V731557CMVZ.
Specs and features for the iPhone 6 (GSM/North America/A1549) 16, 32, 64, 128 GB* (A1549). Dates sold, capacity, battery life, networks, size, price and more. Hosted by site sponsor MacAce.net.

I haven't had a chance to test it exhaustively yet (it's only been a few hours), but I was intrigued by this blog post at iFixIt about how Apple may be applying a non-conductive coating to the metal frame on the second-batch of iPhone 4s to help mitigate the antenna issue.

The interesting part is that iFixIt details how to decode the iPhone's serial number:

aabccdddeefaa = Factory and Machine IDb = Yearcc = Production Weekddd = Unique Identifieree = Color (A4=black)f = size (S=16GB, T=32GB)

The serial number on the unit tells you the manufacture date; our original phone was manufactured in mid-June (week 25). The replacement unit we got was made in early-July (week 27), apparently too soon for a manufacturing change.The serial number also identifies which factory it was made in. (We don’t have a mapping of numbers to physical factories, but we can tell if two phones came from the same plant.)