at last month's Nexus event Google
unveiled their two newest Nexus phones
the 5x and the 6p of the to the 5x was
billed as the affordable model with
specs that are perfectly acceptable but
not blowing any minds but it's the
inside foot count right so today we got
our hands on the 5x to see just what the
insides offer let's tear it down
hi I'm Gwendolyn with iFixit and today
we're tearing down Google's brand new
Nexus 5x the Nexus 5x measures in at 147
millimeters by seventy two point six
millimeters and just seven point nine
millimeters thin a little more than half
a millimeter thicker than the iPhone 6s
the Nexus 5x has a 5.2 inch full HD IPS
LCD with a resolution of 1920 by 1080
and weighs in at 136 grams before we
open the 5x we notice it's nifty USB C
port unfortunately like the oneplus 2
the Nexus 5x is USB C port only supports
USB 2.0 transfer speeds
a major bummer when we went to open this
bad boy we realize that there are no
screws this back panel is held in place
with clips with the rear case removed we
get our first look inside the Nexus 5x
the first thing we notice is the 2700
milliamp hour battery raising our hope
for the first user replaceable battery
we've seen in ages but unfortunately it
wasn't to be the connector for the
battery is hidden beneath the mid frame
and totally inaccessible for the time
being speaking of the mid frame there
are a total of 10 Phillips screws
holding it in place coming along with
the mid frame is the Nexus imprint
fingerprint reader google claims the
imprint can recognize a fingerprint in
just 600 milliseconds there is some
light adhesive holding the battery in
place but it's nothing our sputters
can't handle our eyeopener's can remain
cool for the time being this is a three
point eight volt two thousand seven
hundred million power battery next out
the rear camera this twelve point three
megapixel Sony camera has an aperture of
f2 and boasts a pixel size of 1.5 5
micrometers unlike previous versions
this camera doesn't feature optical
image stabilization
but the Nexus team says the increased
pixel size combined with electronic
image stabilization should remove any
jitter now it's the motherboards turn to
be freed on the board you'll find the
Qualcomm Snapdragon 808 with 2 gigabytes
of Samsung made lpddr3 ram underneath
you'll also find the 16 gigabytes of
toshiba made emmc 5.0 flash memory the
Qualcomm LTE transceiver and many others
if you'd like to see the full list of
chips we've identified head on over to
the teardown a tech fix-it comm we've
come to the end of our teardown which
means it's time to talk repairability
and I fix it it's our mission to teach
people how to repair everything so we
give every gadget we tear down a repair
ability score between 1 and 10 10 being
the easiest to repair and 1 being the
most difficult the Nexus 5x got a 7 out
of 10 and here's why many components are
modular and can be replaced
independently standard Phillips screws
means a driver is easy to find the
battery isn't immediately user
accessible but it isn't too challenging
or to adhere to replace and finally the
display assembly is fused the glass and
LCD will need to be replaced together if
one or the other breaks and that's our
teardown for the complete teardown
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