so far reviewers seem to think the Nexus
6p might be the best Android phone out
there with descriptions like the first
premium Nexus phone and the Android
phone for everyone the Nexus 6p is
shaping up to be a very popular device
well we just had the Nexus 5x on our
teardown table and it got a 7 out of 10
on our repair building scale and we want
to know if the 6p can match or better
that score that's why today we're going
to tear it down hi I'm Gwen Dillon with
iFixit and today we're tearing down
Google's brand new Nexus 6p manufactured
by Huawei the 6p has an anodized
aluminum case with a fingerprint sensor
right under the camera the 6p measures
in at 159 point 3 millimeters by seventy
seven point eight millimeters it is 7.3
millimeters thick and weighs in at 178
grams getting the 6p open was to put it
bluntly no fun there are two panels on
the back that hide screws but one is
made of glass while the first panel came
off with the usual amount of heat and
prying the second panel took some time
after several sessions of heat and
attempted prying we pulled out our
curved exacto knife and somehow we're
able to pry it off without breaking it
this nexus is really making us work for
this one with the screws out in the
clips along the edges released we
finally get our first look inside the 6p
the rear case seems to only hold the NFC
antenna while the rest of the phone
comes out as one big piece once we
disconnected the daughterboard
interconnect cables we set to work on
getting the battery itself out while the
battery is easily available it's glued
in place pretty strongly requiring a lot
of prime this is a three thousand four
hundred fifty milliamp hour three point
eight two volt thirteen point one eight
watt hour battery next out is the
daughter board which is home to the USB
C port the front side of the daughter
board features some control hardware and
spring contacts for the LTE antenna and
on the back we spy one of the six PS
noise cancelling microphones and a
couple more contacts for the vibrating
motor and speaker moving right along we
pull out the selfie camera this 8
megapixel F 2.4 camera is up three
megapixels from its counterpart on the
5x but still maintains the
1.4 micron pixel size on to the
motherboard
there's a lot going on on this board and
I'm not just talking about chips first
we get a closer look at the main camera
and thankfully it's not soldered to the
board but you do have to remove the
motherboard in order to access the
camera connector this is a twelve point
three megapixel camera that is capable
of 4k video capture at 30 frames per
second and has an IR laser assisted
autofocus the next Barnicle we removed
from the motherboard is the square
fingerprint sensor turns out the only
thing making this fingerprint reader
circular is the case hole now we can
turn our attention to the chips on the
board and we find three gigabytes of
micron lpddr4 ram layered over the
Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 version 2.1
which has a two gigahertz octa-core
64-bit CPU and right next door to that
we find 32 gigabytes of Samsung made
emmc 5.0 NAND flash to see the complete
list of chips we've identified head on
over to the teardown at ifixit.com we've
come to the end of our teardown which
means it's time to talk repairability
at iFixit it's our mission to teach
people how to repair everything so 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 Nexus 6p got a 2 out
of 10 and here's why
on the upside solid external
construction improves durability once
the arduous opening procedure is
complete the battery is immediately
accessible but on the downside it's very
difficult although not impossible to
open the device without damaging the
glass camera cover because of the
unibody design this makes every
component extremely difficult to replace
the display assembly cannot be replaced
without tunneling through the entire
phone this makes one of the most common
repairs a damaged screen difficult to
accomplish
and finally tough adhesive holds the
rear cover panels and battery in place
and that's our teardown for the complete
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