it's earpods teardown day this time
we've got the brand new ear pods Pro
which have noise cancelling and even a
force sensitive squeeze button we've
done tear downs of air pods before and
they are a nightmare to disassemble are
these new air pods Pro gonna be any
different probably not so let's get
destructive
first things first we'll start with the
charging case using a vise we warp the
case which cracks the adhesive and gives
us a slight gap to get some opening pics
in place this thing is really stuck
together so we move on to prying with
our metal spudger which eventually pops
the clips and the contents mostly slide
out we've got a couple of glue down
connectors to disconnect before we can
fully remove it some serious prying
eventually separates the inner black
case and then that allows us to pry up
on the two batteries and the small board
unlike the air pods - we tore down in
May of this year this case uses a two
cell battery that has a capacity of 1.9
8 watt hours up from 1.5 2 watt hours in
the air pods - case finishing up with
the case we remove the technically
modular lightning connector which is
screwed in place now let's turn our
attention to the pods themselves since
we had success with our vise earlier
let's try it again we warp the pod just
enough to break the seal holding the two
halves together and we're able to get an
opening pic in place with some more very
tedious prying we eventually get the pod
apart our first look inside reveals that
we've actually got some interesting
changes here the battery which is
usually found in the stem of the air
pods is now a button cell battery
similar to the one we found in the
galaxy bugs we also spot as if connector
which means it's actually possible to
non-destructively separate the two
halves of the air pods but these air
pods aren't going to let us disassemble
them without a fight not only is this if
connector and cable glued down the air
pods are screaming at us when we get
near them with tweezers getting the
battery out requires digging through
tons of rubbery adhesive but eventually
we're able to pry it free only to
discover that it's soldered to a cable
connected to the driver getting to the
driver requires removing a plastic brace
that requires a ton of destructive force
to remove but once it's removed the
driver comes right out we've still got
the stem half of the pod to investigate
and no matter how we try we're unable to
get these parts out of the housing so
it's time for cutting
with the contents free we spot a couple
of microphones some golden antenna
hardware and a mysterious black
rectangle flanked by metal brackets
we're assuming this is the new force
sensor with our ear pods completely
destroyed
I mean disassembled it's time to talk
repairability it's no surprise that the
air pods Pro scored a zero out of ten
and here's why while theoretically semi
serviceable the non modular glued
together design and lack of replacement
parts makes repair both impractical and
uh NECA nominal if you want to see what
a more repairable set of earbuds look
like check out our galaxy buds tear down
video and don't forget to hit subscribe
while you're there
happy fixing
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