earlier this month Google announced its
new high-end phones the pixel and the
pixel XL taking the place of the Nexus
line of phones the pixels promise to be
a serious challenger to Apple's iPhone
while we know the pixel phones look
similar to the iPhone on the outside
it's our job to show you what they look
like on the inside
so let's tear it down we grab our eye
opener suction cup and pick and get to
work on taking off the display our first
peek inside ignites more mystery as all
the inner workings are covered with this
bracket and mid frame before moving on
we take a closer look at this 5.5 inch
AMOLED quad HD display due to the super
thin components and no frame or bezel
behind the display we were not able to
remove it in one piece as the o LED and
glass digitizer separated easier than we
would have liked
next we pop off the mid frame to reveal
our first real look at the insides of
the pixel XL including the battery this
13.2 8 watt hour battery beats out the
11.1 watt hour battery found in the
iPhone 7 plus and is removed with a new
take on the pool tab / tamper evident
seal it's a three thousand four hundred
fifty milliamp hour battery with fast
charge that google claims will give you
up to seven hours of use from only 15
minutes of charging before we get to the
motherboard we pop off the eight
megapixel front facing camera but even
with the camera out of the way the
motherboard is not quite free yet as its
booby-trapped by a sneaky cable
underneath with the motherboard released
we're able to disconnect the twelve
point three megapixel rear facing camera
that has nifty features such as phase
and laser detection autofocus and is
able to record 4k video at 30 frames per
second speaking of the motherboard we're
now able to get a closer look at the
pixel excels chips chips of note include
the 64-bit quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon
820 one that has four gigabytes of
lpddr4 RAM and on the other side of the
board the 32 gigabytes of Samsung made
flash storage we've got a complete list
of chips we've identified on our
teardown at ifixit.com
last to come out of the pixel XL was the
daughter board which is home to the USB
type-c port and microphone we've come to
the end of our teardown and now we turn
our thoughts towards repairability
how did the pixel excel score it got a 6
out of
and here's why on the upside many
components are modular and can be easily
replaced once the display simply is
removed the battery has a removal tab
and is adhered by a modest amount of
adhesive making its removal painless and
all the screws are t5 Torx screws but on
the downside the opening procedure
requires prying up a very thin and
poorly supported display assembly making
it extremely difficult to open the foam
without damage in addition to screws the
mid frame is secured by snug press fit
notches that make its removal and
subsequent repairs laborious and that's
our teardown for the complete teardown
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