last month Amazon announced the fire
phone equipped with this cool dynamic
perspective feature the phone will also
have a lot of Amazon specific features
like the Firefly recognition software
the made a support service and free
prime for a year all of which is sure to
please the Amazon loving crowd but will
it be enough to grab a wider market who
knows but what I know is we got our
hands on one and we're gonna tear it
down
hi I'm Gwendolyn with iFixit and today
Amazon set the bar pretty high with the
features jam-packed into their fire
phone
but will the repairability score be
enough to impress us design-wise the
fire phone is simple just a rounded
black box with a glass screen the front
of the phone has the most notable
features including a raised home button
and five visible cameras most of which
handled a head tracking involved for the
phone's dynamic display size wise the
fire phone measures in at 139 point two
by sixty six point five millimeters it
is 8.9 millimeters thick and weighs in
at 160 grams getting into the phone
proved easy enough our cursory
inspection greeted us with two
non-proprietary t3 screws this teardown
is off to a pleasant start and with the
help of our handy eye slack we get our
first look inside the fire phone in
order to separate the back pain we just
needed to disconnect a few ribbon cables
on the front half we see the battery
motherboard and pretty much everything
that makes up the phone and on the other
we have a tab that alerts Amazon to the
fact that the phone has been opened
sorry Amazon as we work on getting the
battery out we run into a few brackets
under option number one there's no
battery connector so we move on to
option two where we find what we're
looking for but we also see that the
battery is held in place by some
familiar adhesive we've seen adhesive
tabs like this before in both the iPhone
5s and 5c
and after some sticky resistance the
battery is out this is a 2400 milliamp
hour battery that Amazon claims will
give you 85 hours of standby time up to
22 hours of talktime up to 65 hours of
audio playback and up to 11 hours of
video playback with the battery out we
set our sights on the motherboard but it
looks like the rear facing camera is not
ready to let go
after some sputtering and unscrewing we
get the motherboard free
don't worry rear-facing camera will come
back to you soon the motherboard is home
to the two gigabytes of Samsung made LP
ddr3 RAM and likely underneath that is
the 2.2 gigahertz quad-core Snapdragon
800 processor right next door you'll
find a 32 gigabytes of Samsung made emmc
NAND flash memory along the bottom of
the phone you'll find a densely
populated peripheral cable that is home
to a number of components including the
microUSB port the speakerphone speaker
the microphone and two of the four
front-facing infrared LEDs much like the
Xbox Kinect the Amazon fire phone uses
the LEDs to blast out infrared light
that the for dynamic perspective cameras
interpret to create the dynamic
perspective effects speaking of those
dynamic perspective cameras we found
them thoroughly glued in place right
below that cable these cameras require
careful calibration and it looks like
Amazon isn't taking any chances with
them slipping out of place which means
for us to remove them we're gonna have
to do some serious fried other than the
four dynamic perspective cameras in the
phone the Amazon fire also has a 13
megapixel rear facing camera that we
removed earlier and a 2.1 megapixel
front facing camera last but certainly
not least we have the front panel
assembly
it took some heat from our eye opener to
soften the adhesive holding it together
but we got the mid frames separated from
the display this display is a 4.7 inch
IPS LCD display with a resolution of
1280 by 720 at 315 pixels per inch we've
come to the end of our teardown which
means it's time to talk repairability
and iFixit it's our mission to teach
people how to repair everything so we
give every gadget we tear down a repair
ability score between one and ten ten
being the easiest to repair and one
being the most difficult the Amazon fire
code got a
three out of ten and here's why on the
upside external non-proprietary screws
mean no adhesive holding the device
together and an easier time getting in
but on the downside tons of cables and
connectors make disassembly tedious and
reassembly difficult the four dynamic
perspective cameras are encased in glue
replacement will mean heating and
cutting a replacement display assembly
will need to include for replacement
cameras or will require a lot of extra
work transferring cameras and finally
the fire phone is not modular several
components share cables which means an
increase in cost of replacement parts
and that's our teardown for the complete
teardown including tons of beautiful
high-quality images head on over to fix
it comm don't forget to subscribe to our
YouTube channel to stay up-to-date on
all our latest tear downs and repair
videos you can follow us on Twitter at I
fix it and give us a like on facebook at
facebook.com/ slash i fix it
[Music]