if you've been waiting to get your hands
on the new oneplus 2 and you live in
America it looks like you're gonna have
to wait a little bit longer oneplus just
announced that they're delaying the
American release of their new flagship
killer phone due to production schedules
well we've never been patient when it
comes to getting our hands on new
devices and lucky for us oneplus sent us
a unit to tear down so let's get to it
hi I'm Gwendolyn with iFixit and today
we're tearing down the oneplus 2 the
oneplus 2 is almost the same size as its
previous version measuring in at 150 1.8
millimeters long 74 point 9 millimeters
wide 9.8 5 millimeters thick and
weighing in at 175 grams the oneplus 2
comes with a 5.5 inch LCD insel 1080p
full-hd display with a pixel density of
401 pixels per inch normally at this
point we get to cracking open the
oneplus 2 but since our friends from
creative electron we're visiting with
their TrueView prime x-ray machine we
thought it would be fun to get a preview
of what's to come for us in our teardown
and to show you some awesome photos just
like this once we had our fun with the
x-ray machine it was time to get to
tearing down the oneplus 2 opening the
backplate was easy enough just an
opening tool and fingers peeled it off
in a snap but it looks like to get to
the battery we've got some more work to
do looks like the easy to remove
backplate is all for show because now
we're met with screws hidden under
rubber covers all I can say is it's
better than glue and finally we get our
first glimpse inside and see the bright
red battery that has a message just for
us
challenge accepted the battery is held
in place by some mild adhesive but some
gentle sputtering is all it took to take
it out this is a three point eight volt
12.1 6 watt hour 3300 milliamp hour
battery a marginal upgrade from the
oneplus one next out were the Camerons
both of which came out with just some
simple prime the rear facing camera is
13 megapixels and boy are those pixels
big 1.3 micrometers to be exact
currently that's the biggest in a 13
megapixel smartphone camera it also has
an f/2 aperture is capable of recording
4k resolution video and
120 frames per second slow motion at
720p we turned our attention to the
motherboard next which was only held in
place by one screw on the motherboard we
see the 4 gigabytes of lpddr4 Ram made
by Samsung and using our x-ray vision we
see that the 64 bit Qualcomm Snapdragon
810 processor with 1.8 gigahertz
octa-core CPU and Adreno 430 GPU is
hiding underneath on the other side of
the board you'll find the 64 gigabytes
of Samsung II MMC NAND flash memory the
oneplus 2 is the first smartphone we've
torn down to adopt the USB C port this
all-in-one port was next on our list to
be removed and it came out attached to
just one long cable should make
replacing this part affordable lastly we
set to work on separating the display
from the mid frame not surprisingly we
had to bust out the eye opener as it was
glued in place with the adhesive dealt
with we were able to free the display
from the mid frame and got a look at the
backside of the 5.5 inch display 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 1 and 10 10 being
the easiest to repair and 1 being the
most difficult the oneplus 2 scored a 7
out of 10 and here's why on the upside a
single non-proprietary screw head
decreases the cost of tools for repairs
many components are modular and can be
replaced independently and the USB C
port is on a relatively simple flex
cable not an assembly it should be an
inexpensive replacement but on the
downside the LCD and digitizer glass are
fused together and must be replaced as a
single part heat is required to remove
it from the mid frame special thanks to
oneplus for sending us this teardown
unit and creative electron for letting
us use their x-ray machine for the
complete teardown including tons of
beautiful high-quality images and more
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