we've been seeing more and more Chinese
made smartphones showing up on our
teardown table lately back in May we saw
the huawei p9 which squared a
respectable 7 out of 10 on our
repairability scale and now we have the
latest entry from Mizzou the MX 6 with
its all metal unibody the outsides of
the MX 6 might remind you of another
popular smartphone but how will it
compare on the inside there's only one
way to find out and that's to tear it
down just like the Huawei p9 the MX 6
uses pentalobe screws to secure the
display to the chassis why they chose
these screws instead of regular Phillips
or torques is totally beyond us outcomes
our ice clock to pop open the MX 6 and
reveal an attached fingerprint sensor
cable just like in the iPhone 5s and se
the only difference meizu gave us some
extra slack on the cable and held it in
place with a screw down tamper-evident
bracket next out is the battery which
disconnects with just the flick of our
spudger while the MX 6 S battery is
adhered to the rear case it does feature
an iPhone 4s battery pull tab that makes
the job a little easier this is a three
point eight volt 11 point 6 3 watt hour
battery that has a capacity of 3060 mill
amp hours putting it ahead of the iPhone
6s plus is 10.45 watt hour battery the
speaker assembly was next on our
removalist unfortunately it was held in
place finally a few screws while part of
the assembly lines up with the
microphone hole there was no mic to be
found here we did find a tiny acoustic
tube channel with a 90 degree bend
intended to pass audio from the outside
world to a mic located somewhere else
directly underneath where the speaker
used to be was the USBC headphone jack
and microphone assembly
although the cable was glued to the
chassis getting it up and off proved to
be no challenge at all excited to take a
look at the motherboard it's the next
thing we removed but before we take a
look at the chips there are a couple of
cameras that need to be dealt with
first up was the rear-facing camera that
is the first to feature Sony's 12
megapixel Exmor RS IMX 386 CMOS sensor
along with an F 2.0 lens shortly
thereafter the five megapixel
front-facing camera was extracted and
back to the motherboard on board you'll
find four gigabytes of micron made
lpddr3 SDRAM and layered below you'll
find the mediatek helio X 20 system on
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we've come to the end of our teardown
which means it's time to talk
repairability
that I fix it our mission is to teach
people how to fix everything so we give
every gadget we tear down a repair
ability score between 1 and 10 10 being
the easiest to repair and one being the
most difficult the meizu mx4 de 7 out of
10 and here's why
on the upside the display assembly is
the first component out which simplifies
screen repairs the phone also features
modular components with spring contacts
large screws and thoughtful cabling
making repair cheaper and easier the
battery is equipped with a pull tab for
extraction but the tough adhesive
binding it to the chassis means force is
still needed to remove it on the
downside the mx6 uses pentalobe security
screws on the exterior requiring a
specialty screwdriver to open the phone
for any repair and that's our teardown
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