are we live
are we live did we do it did we do it oh
my gosh
everything feels pretty weird in 2020
who knows what life is anymore
where are you reading some on the chat
uh cool i guess we are live
all right hey everybody uh i'm kk
and i'm taylor and today we are going to
take apart or taylor's gonna take apart
the note
20 ultra which is samsung's newest
flagship
um we're doing this one a little bit
different so kayla you want to talk
through how we are safely doing this
teardown and i don't just mean
disconnecting the battery
as you can tell we are back in the
studio uh
we and we're not wearing masks we are
being very safe though we kk and i are
six feet apart
and our video guys are also six feet
away from us
they also have very foggy glasses
because they're all masked
and yeah in in my last video i was
wearing a mask for some of the audio
and a lot of you noticed so uh we're
doing our best to
bring you good quality video and also be
very safe
yep and so with that
i think we're gonna i guess some
housekeeping rules uh if you have any
questions during the teardown go ahead
and drop them in the chat
i'll do my best to answer them even if i
don't answer them during the stream i'll
try to get to them
afterwards and we're also going to be
giving away a pair of beans
uh so we really like galaxy beans taylor
talk to me a little bit about this
teardown you just finished it
yeah i just tore down the galaxy buds
live and
they are far and away my new favorite
wireless earbuds
um they they do have an unconventional
fit in your ears
so it kind of depends on that if you
will like them or not but
the good news is they are very
repairable we gave them an 8 out of 10
on our repairability scale
which is the highest we've ever scored a
pair of earbuds and honestly higher than
i ever thought earbuds would get
so yeah they are very cool they have uh
just they're very tidy inside you go
watch the teardown after this live
stream obviously
very cool yeah so we hadn't really seen
a repairable pair of
earbuds yet so excited to see those and
so if you want to win
um i always laugh
at just naming conventions of devices so
we went from the note 10 to the note 20.
what the heck happened to the 11 through
19. it's 20 20. so i guess anything can
happen
um but i want the funniest most
creative thing you got so tell me why
they went from the note one the note 10
to the note 20 and i will pick the most
creative answer
and announce the winner in our tear down
because we're going to do a full
step-by-step side-by-side tear down of
the
note 20 and the note 20 ultra this week
so stay tuned for that yeah so one more
time
give us your most creative answer for
why samsung went to
galaxy 10 or note 10 to note 20
and put the answer in the chat and then
we will pick the winner and announce it
in our tear down coming later this week
or early next week probably
perfect and with that i guess taylor
is gonna get started yeah let's do it
let's do it
so here we have both notes
the 20 ultra and the
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what we will call the vanilla 20 i guess
it's always hard when they put a
differentiator on one but not the other
so let's get them out of the box here i
will make a disclaimer as i pull them
out of the box
we have opened them already as you can
tell this one's turned on this is the
node ultra
we like kk said we're going to be
tearing down both of them
in a step-by-step teardown coming soon
but today we are just going to be
looking at
the note 20 ultra so the mystic bronze
one
mystic bronze and
go ahead oh yeah i was just thinking um
from all the reviews that i've seen so
far
reviewers didn't get the what we call
the vanilla
note 20. they only got the note 20 ultra
i think samsung probably did that on
purpose the note 20 ultra has a lot more
specs
i'm not going to go spec by spec
literally every other reviewer out there
has the comparison of the specs
but i will mention that i'm really sad
that the vanilla
note doesn't have the ultra or the sd
slot for
expandable storage so if you are gonna
buy this phone choose your specs wisely
definitely true i do think it's really
interesting that they didn't send the
vanilla note to any of the reviewers
like
i don't know i we we can talk more later
about
the differences between the two but i
think that vanilla note is a very
interesting phone
i would like to know why taylor thinks
that's interesting but luckily
we'll be doing a full teardown of that
and
i'll get to know soon all right well
we have the note 20 ultra here one more
disclaimer uh
i did actually open this before the live
stream because
uh i have terrible luck with opening
galaxy phones
i really hate how they just put an
unsupported glass panel
in the back and then they're like all
right just get in there
so i did open this one time already it's
probably read here just a little bit so
i'm gonna heat it up and then we'll get
back inside
yeah so the opening process on
galaxy phones are on note specifically
it wasn't always horrible notes one
through
four uh they didn't even need any heat
and they had to use replaceable
batteries
i have a note 4 here for nostalgia
factor
um but that was really cool these
replaceable batteries were cool
um and getting these phones open i mean
there's just
a heck ton of adhesive on there so it
usually takes a bit but um
taylor's using the heat gun
and it's actually not i mean like it's
not the worst amount of adhesive
of adhesive it's just the the glass that
they use
they use they're on on the note 20 ultra
they have
they're using the new gorilla glass
victus
which is interesting and supposed to be
like the perfect blend of
hardness and scratch proof but i don't
think that they're using that same glass
for the back and i mean certainly in the
past they haven't been so
it's just the glass always wants to
break when you uh
get inside or when you try to yeah and
so
uh yeah that is
that um one thing i have to give
apple kudos for is they have a so
screens and batteries are always the
first thing
they're the most common repair screens
break especially if you're me
and batteries need replacing after so
many charge cycles and one thing apple
does really well it's a screen first
opening procedure so you can pop the
screen off work on the components on the
inside and that's great
samsung phones as well as a lot of other
phones um you have to take
all of the components out before you can
even get to the display
which is no fun and what taylor is
battling with right now
if you watch this channel a few of you
in the chat said why am i not doing it
there would be a lot more swearing and
we wouldn't get
the beautiful glamour shots that we
usually get in our tear downs
so if you do want me to do a tear down
um
the chip id would probably like i've
used our
airflow station and like fried the
boards before so
probably not a good thing for me to do
unless you want to see that
all right we are back inside
so one thing that i wanted to say really
quick about
what you were talking about the iphones
we love them for their screen first
opening procedure
but not every phone that has a screen
first opening procedure is great
like some of the older pixel phones also
have the screen first opening procedure
and what they what they did not do the
apple does is support the screen
and so you you can basically pry however
you want and you're not going to break
the screen on an iphone because there's
like
a metal plate there and anyone who does
the back first opening procedure could
do that same thing
but they all just choose to put this
unsupported piece of glass
cough pixel cough essential not calling
anyone out
kind of calling some folks out so this
is the back panel you can see
uh there's a rear microphone on
here that just connects with some
contact pins and
do you want to talk about some of the
microphone recording modes that we were
mentioning earlier
sure there are some microphones that
that's my take on the microphones um i
have actually never used
an android device before so i've never
really never
no wow i hate when people ask me what my
favorite phone is because it's like
guys i i take phones apart so i never we
get like what 10 seconds of play time
with things
so i can tell you about the construction
of them
like last year samsung
in the note they moved the motherboard
to the top which is something that the
pixel did so we could get
a wider battery in there and i believe
that this phone
from reviewers they have just a lot
more options for pro recording so they
have mics that can go
in both directions as i was doing some
research on samsung note phones in
general i actually read
that the note 4 was the first smartphone
to film a 4k feature film in which is
pretty cool i didn't
i yeah that's a cool thing but
yeah i haven't really used these phones
a lot that is
crazy to me um one of my
favorite phones that i ever owned was a
galaxy note it was the galaxy note
3 and yeah i love that phone that was
back when you could just like rip the
back cover off
and um it was actually kind of a weird
phone that
the back was like fake leather and that
was that was a weird phase that
this feels weird yeah the note 4 has
this leather thing and i picked it up
and i was like that's
strange yeah but yeah i love that phone
the s pen
is uh of questionable utility obviously
it depends on who you are but
uh they they really do pack some
interesting features into these note
phones
so a few people in the chat are saying
do we read the chat today yes
i'm reading it right now um trying to
keep up
but there's kind of a lot going on so
attempting to
so back to note 20 ultra
i am we're inside obviously and i am
just taking out some of the screws that
are holding the wireless charging coil
down
and then we can disconnect the battery
in the meantime can somebody grab me
a magnetic mat so i can keep my screws
organized i totally forgot to grab one
yesterday
um i could do it do you want me to do it
all right i'm gonna go grab a mat and
try not to touch anything
has anybody had a uh funny
galaxy note 10 to note 20 reason yet
oh someone said
no these are going too fast
i will find one or maybe someone on my
team can tell me their favorites and
start slapping me
so i can keep up a little bit better um
one thing to note about the magnetic mat
so people always have very clever ways
of
keeping their screws organized and
i was doing an ipad repair i was doing
an ipad repair
fail the other day and i was using a
blow dryer
and i was just using like cartons to
keep things set and
if you're like frazzled having the
magnetic mat is just
so helpful because if you are using heat
and i don't know repairs
takes a lot of concentration it's really
nice to be able to have
your screws magnetized to the mat
or else you could lose them and lose
them you might
it's so easy to lose screws i
actually only have two screws on the
bottom of my 2012 macbook pro
and i saw that the other day which is
horrible because that allows for ingress
points and
um you know you can get dirt and water
and all sorts of bad things in there and
we sell
macbook feet kits so i'm just a very bad
example of how you should care for your
laptop
um all right so
all right i think i got all the screws
here i'm trying not to put my head in
the overhead cam like i always do
it's hard um when we were filming
from home i tried filming with a dslr
for the first time
and like all of my clips were out of
focus and i was completely over my
overhead cam
so props to everyone who knows how to
film themselves it's a skill
and so taylor what are you doing you're
taking out the mid frame uh
yeah it's it's less of a mid frame now
they used to be kind of like
mid frames but these days it's just like
mostly wireless charging coil and then
they have these little
plastic frames i guess wireless charging
are people
excited about wireless charging
is that a thing yeah i mean i think some
people are excited about it
we uh medium one zero just published a
piece
about how inefficient wireless charging
are uh
and they they featured kyle our ceo
and arthur one of uh my fellow tech
writers
um and it was really kind of bleak
like wireless charging is very cool and
convenient but when you look at it from
an efficiency standpoint it's just
like terrible so it's you're you're kind
of wasting energy
and that's sad yeah i would love for
someone to drop that article
into the chat um eric ravenscraft who i
really
love on twitter he's an excellent writer
and he writes for all sorts of
organizations he wrote that article
and in it he had claimed that they did a
bunch of tests and found that wireless
chargers were
they used 47 percent more power than a
charging cable and i know that doesn't
sound like
a lot when you take one device but if
you think about that and multiply it by
how many devices have wireless charging
it starts to get real scary
so i just got that charging coil off
you can see basically it just comes out
with this metal plate
and the lower speaker and that's
it now we can move on to
disconnect the battery which is this guy
right here
and then we can disconnect the other
cables up here
and i think next we will go for this
upper mid frame piece
and then the motherboard is so
in the note 10 i promise i'm going to
say s10
probably or s20 a lot of times so bear
with me
it's the note uh in the note 10 we saw
a kind of like a half stacked
motherboard which was pretty cool
yeah are we seeing the same thing here
do we know yet we don't know yet
it's kind of hard to tell honestly i i'm
guessing we will see it
uh like usually they carry the
technology from
the galaxy line straight across to the
note
so i'm guessing it'll be here but we'll
see
yeah so the first time that we saw the
first time recently we saw a stack
motherboard was in the iphone 10
uh and that was really cool and that
allowed them to cram like so much more
tech into there
but uh we originally saw a stacked
motherboard in the original iphone which
a lot of people don't know
um so i always thought that was really
cool
and so i'm gonna take a look at the chat
um yeah what are the people saying how's
it going
um fine it's going fine yeah it's going
pretty good it's a good day good
question
um what's the battery capacity
um i know it's at 1450
milliamp hours yeah it's it's 4500
milliamp
yeah scotch under the s
20s 5000 yeah
there are actually a lot of interesting
ways that this phone
is less powerhouse than the
note or then the galaxy to s20
and the battery is one of them the
cameras are slightly different
and some ways are better in some ways or
worse
but normally the note is like the the
peak of samsung
and this year it's just a little watered
down which is interesting i'm i'm
curious where they're going to take it
next year
yeah so i mean you can't talk about and
i'll talk about it quickly because it
happened a long time ago
but the note 7 as we all know was a
little bit of a disaster
yeah that phone was lit literally um and
so i'm always curious about
like the cooling systems so samsung has
just done
everything to up battery capacity
and so what is that this is the top half
of that
mainframe with the front firing speaker
like the earpiece speaker and this is
the
laser autofocus system and the camera
flash
and this this later out laser autofocus
system is interesting
because the galaxy s 20 which
debuted the 108 megapixel camera sensor
had a pretty awful time with autofocus
because most of the autofocus systems
that have been implemented thus far for
mobile cameras
like they don't have to do as much
because they're using smaller sensors
but since this is like a giga i mean
it's gigantic for a smartphone since
it's such a big sensor though
uh samsung needed to do something to
help with the autofocus so what they did
is
they're using this laser which is pretty
cool and
reviewers say that it works pretty well
so that's nice
yeah a lot of people gave the s2 yep got
it right
the s9 ultra crap about the autofocus
and that sensor so it is cool to see
them
fix it yeah definitely and now there are
a lot of pictures
on here or pictures there are a lot of
questions on here so i'm going to try to
get through them
um how does
the on-screen fingerprint sensor work
have we gotten to the fingerprint uh
yeah we haven't gotten there yet we'll
get there
it's an ultrasonic fingerprint sensor
like the previous ones
so yeah some folks are just asking about
the battery um so samsung's done a lot
over the years since the note 7 to
really like up their cooling systems
so they've there's always just like
massive amounts of like copper heat
pipes or vapor chambers
and so i'm sure we'll probably get a
glimpse of that as taylor's
tunneling through the phone as well yeah
once we get past the motherboard we'll
be able to see that heatsink that you're
talking about
i'm trying to decide where we should go
next i just got that top frame part out
and i guess let's see
we can go for
cameras next maybe yeah let's do that
cameras
um okay and trying
so yeah let's maybe let's run through
these camera specs real quick
the s no not s
the note 20 ultra has a triple rear
camera
which the top one is the 12 megapixel
ultra wide
which is the same as the s20 then the
middle one
is the 108 megapixel wide angle which is
like the main sensor
and that's the 108 megapixel one
then to the right which i just took out
is the laser autofocus
and the lower sensor is a 12 megapixel
telephoto camera
which we actually tore down and i have
right
here let me zoom in
enhance zoom and enhance
so this is a torn down version of this
uh zoom lens and basically there's a
prism in here
and it can move back and forth
this is really hard to show you but it
can move back and forth
and that is basically how the camera
zooms
and in the s20 ultra it was up to 100
times
zoom in the note here it's only 50 times
zoom which i mean both of those are
ridiculous
and more than you'll ever need but the
idea is
you get better quality zoom at like
three
or five times zoom than you would with
like a normal sensor
so that's pretty cool i was just going
to say before you pop out those cameras
a few people are asking if they can see
it from the side
oh yeah to see how far the camera is
yeah yeah
let me zoom out here again
cool okay so the reveal
the moment of truth how far did the
cameras
actually stick out right about there
uh jerry had like a lego when his phone
when he did his test he had like a lego
next to it and it was like equal sized
which i thought was cute i also just
really like legos
but yeah but yeah this this camera bump
is pretty
big you know like
i i personally think they did a decent
job making it look
good for how big it is but it's
definitely subjective
a lot of people are gonna hate it
obviously
yeah uh it's it's funny because when you
think about like
the origins of the note samsung was
really the first
company to push the form factor into the
phablet form factor
and they did it in 2011 which is the
same time we got the iphone
4s and they did it with like a super
outdated stylus which everyone thought
it was an outdated stylus which
was not the s pen is like their most
trademarkable thing
and the reduce yeah it's a really
cool pen and it's much better than a
traditional stylus
um
so oh yeah and it's it's interesting
because they
so they debuted the note line like all
the way back then like you were saying
and the early notes
were they were huge at the time but they
right right now almost any mainstream
smartphone
is bigger than the original note so
it's just funny how over time our
perspective has shifted and now like
this phone is gigantic seriously it's
like tablet sized
but you know back then people were
calling a 4.5 inch phone
a phablet like that that's when people
started saying phablet and now
every single phone is that big so that's
funny
real quick i forgot that the camera
is trapped by the motherboard here so
i'm going for a motherboard now
sounds good some people are asking how
much ram there is
we will leave some secrets to reveal in
our full side-by-side
the spec is 12 gigabytes though yeah
um any idea why they flipped the side of
the s pen
i don't know but i'd like to think that
they're just doing a solid for
left-handed folks they don't get any
love
so actually really hurt my right hand
and
during quarantine tried to teach myself
to be ambidextrous and right with my
left
and for all you lefties out there i'm so
sorry about paper smudging
and just yeah that feels really unfair
nothing is meant for you so
i am happy that this one is i don't know
good for
good for samsung so here's the note 10
with the pen on the opposite side and i
mean
this is partially reassembled so i can't
really tell what's going
on but i don't see
like any obvious reason why they would
have flipped the pen
side like just looking at this let us
know in the comments
if you have any ideas because that that
really is interesting like
why would they just put it on the other
side when it's been on the same side for
10 years now yeah
they just want to keep us on our toes
maybe like
and one one other thing that it could be
is
uh something maybe something to do with
antennas like
th this this wait was the note 10 5g i
can't remember it was
so not the first 5g phone but this is
the first phone with
well the first samsung phone with ultra
wideband antennas
which is something the iphone put in the
iphone 11 last year
and some it maybe has something to do
with that but uh
we're gonna like we're gonna look for
those later when we get there
and yeah i need to stop getting
distracted so motherboard
well true advanced technology is super
interesting to me um i think we're all
waiting for ear tags
i yes yeah i can't believe that those
haven't come out yet
it is very surprising and i think we're
all just waiting for him and
the application of that technology has
just
a lot of opportunity um the way that it
can
zero in on things so closely uh at a
distance is great
so
it is really cool go ahead i was just
gonna see
other questions so something that i'm
always curious about when we take apart
phones
is who's buying this phone so if you
plan on
buying the note 20 ultra or the note 20
uh tell me in the chat and tell me what
phone you're upgrading from
i always want to know why someone is
upgrading or what features that you're
really excited about
um a lot of the reviews i read said that
if you are on a note 10
that you know you probably don't need to
upgrade this thing is 1300
it is everything that you could probably
want a smartphone to be but you know it
is a pretty
minimal spec bump from the note 10. so
if you are buying this phone
tell me why
and nobody look but uh i forgot to take
the sim card out
i forget that literally every time i'm
pretty sure we forgot
yeah we did that on the iphone 11 live
stream and people gave us a ton of crap
so
let's all just be kind to each other
2020 is hard enough let's not give each
other crap
so i am seeing some responses people are
upgrading from the s7
the note8 wow s7 that's a big upgrade
yeah that is a big upgrade uh if we're
boring you i'm sorry
don't watch yeah you don't have to play
um let's see so we have some people
now lots of people are responding
can it be your girlfriend for thirteen
hundred dollars i mean you do you man
whatever makes you happy in this day and
age like i'm for it
they saying if the note can be your
girlfriend for 200
i mean yeah didn't they make a movie
about that
her if they i
what movie her i think it's called her
oh okay i was like what
all right we have some people upgrading
from the oneplus 5
uh and others are saying that they put
the s pen on the other side because of
the buttons
so i've never had a phone with the
i don't know the gesture side things
does that get in your way when
i don't know what phone you've been on
lately uh i i have an iphone 10s
so yeah the buttons are on the opposite
side
hmm a real mystery there
okay this sim card does not want to come
out
uh that's okay
so for people that are buying this phone
who's gonna get the mystic bronze is
anybody gonna get the mystic bronze yeah
what do you guys think about the mystic
colors i
naming conventions for tech are just
they're a lot
they really are
and for anyone tuning in late to our
stream
we are giving away a pair of galaxy buds
live
um which are beans they are beans
literally if you saw our tear down on
the inside
of these buds samsung calls them beans
and so
to win i just want the most
creative funny answer for why samsung
went from the note 10
to the note 20 and they skipped
everything in between
and i'll pick my favorite and announce
that in our full step-by-step teardown
of the note 20 and the note 20 ultra
either later this week or early next
week
what phone do you have right now kkk i
also have the 10s
so the only smartphones i've had oh this
is embarrassing i had the iphone 5c
because of the color and that's really
embarrassing that's fine
uh and then i had my iphone 6s for a
very very long time i gave it
i've written about it a lot i think i
gave it like three screens
uh no it was like four screens three
batteries
all new screws i three home buttons
um i don't know i just broke that phone
a lot but now i'm on my 10s
and i love it tennis is a great phone
because it still has
haptic touch like the 3d touch thing
that iphones do
and uh that is a hill i will die on it
was the best thing ever
so come at me in the comments you're
gonna get so many comments
okay people are not gonna be happy about
that moving on uh
here's the motherboard it finally came
out and
it is double stacked like the
yeah on yeah just on half like the s
20 or no the s10 wait no 10 the like the
s20
yeah um yeah so
now we can pull out the cameras
just got to do some ribbon cables here
um all right so i'm going to read some
of these
answers um
this is a great one um so someone wrote
because
in this parallel world the thanos
snapped the finger and all the humans
except samsung employees after 10 years
of hard work
finally built a time machine and save to
solve maybe
um that is a good one that's really
creative i'm a fan of that
so i like that one what other answers
are there
because the numbers 11 through 19 are
temporarily banned due to account
sharing and or other misconduct
the suspension will be lifted once the
numbers have had an opportunity to
reflect on their conduct
these are way more creative than i
thought they would be
yeah they are samsung named it note 20
because we are in 2020.
solid solid that's
nice lightweight
okay um cameras are out i'm going to
leave them all
in their little bracket here because i
have the cameras
from the s10 ultra
over here that we already tore down and
then i don't have to do it
so this is the 108 megapixel sensor
as you can see it is like very large
well i wish i had one to compare it to i
should have grabbed the iphone sensor
but
trust me it's big and it's pretty cool
got a giant lens here and then the
ultrawide is just like a normal little
guy here
and we already talked about the zoom
yeah those are the cameras and
let's see if there's anything
interesting on the board we'll take
these shields off
for our step-by-step teardown so make
sure to stay tuned for that
if you are curious what's under them
mostly looks like we have standard stuff
on here
i don't see anything too exciting but
we'll see under those shields
sorry i just mystic bronze because it
has mystic powers like the power rangers
and this totally looks like a power
rangers color this mystic bronze
oh sorry that was probably really loud
i'm sorry everyone
uh okay it really does look like power
rangers color though
i thought the when we took apart the
galaxy z
flip it was like that really pretty
purple and
i thought that that would be the phone
for hit girl if anyone watched
us
all right now i'm taking out this little
lower board which
is basically just like a controller for
the usbc port of the vibration motor
and there's a microphone on here
so we're kind of getting down to the
bare bones here we have the battery
which how long we've been going now
do we have time for battery removal or
should we just leave it rest
leave it in place i think we'll just
wrap it like we still want to leave
some mysteries for the tear down we
really just wanted to give you guys a
first look
um if you want to see anything else drop
it in the chat and we can definitely do
it
taking out the battery would require
i always use alcohol yeah i would use
alcohol too
and alcohol solves everything it
wouldn't be terrible like we could do it
for sure if you guys want to see it but
it it's not fun yeah i
um here's a close-up of the battery yeah
it is 4 500 milliamp hours well typical
capacity
so they didn't lie they never really do
so
but yeah al also in here we have this
square vibration motor which samsung has
been using for a couple years now
and it gives surprisingly good haptic
feedback
still lacking compared to the iphone's
huge taptic engine but it does it does a
good job
and oh yeah and then we have the
front-facing camera up here
which uh do you want to talk about ham
cam
that was like the one thing i walked
away from deter bone at the verge his
review
he said that the selfie cam did a lot of
over
smoothing and he compared it to a ham
and he took a lot of pictures of himself
and likened himself to a ham and i just
it really did make his skin look like
a ham you go watch his review if you
haven't already it's like it's crazy
what the front-facing camera does and he
he turned off all the skin smoothing
settings so it's just
something that they have baked into the
camera app hopefully i mean
they definitely can fix it with a
firmware update we'll see if they
end up doing that but someone asked why
they removed the pull tabs on the
battery
i didn't were there ever pull tabs on i
don't i don't think samsung has ever
used pull tabs we
would love it if they did like it would
be great but
they just kind of slap it in there with
a ton of adhesive like even oneplus they
also use adhesive but usually they have
like
a jacket on the battery that you can
pull it from
and they use less adhesive so it's a
little bit less offensive of a procedure
but
i mean yeah samsung is just about as bad
as they come when it comes to battery
removal
i have like half the people in the chat
saying remove the battery and half the
people saying we're boring
so what is it internet i don't know what
you want
i mean i i if they think we're boring
i get it you know that's fine i think
i'm boring too
i'm not gonna get delightful um
one other thing that we said we would
talk about is the
cooling right here you can see the
thermal pad
and there might be like some i'm sure
there's copper under here
let me see if i can scratch it away
don't have anything that sharp
oh tweezers
make sure we're focusing here
some people say to put it back together
oh yeah it's going to say we can put it
back together
and now we're just getting remove the
battery feel free to do what you guys
want ooh i like you digital life oh
thanks
dude
so this is probably graphite it's
actually i don't see copper under here
there's probably copper like
way under it but this is an interesting
cooling solution
like you said samsung has been extremely
careful about cooling ever since the
note 7
debacle the other thing we wanted to
look for was
ultra wide band antennas and we actually
couldn't really find those on the iphone
until we got x-rays of them
and we will have x-rays of both of these
phones the note 20 ultra and the note 20
for step-by-step tear down so come back
for that we can
look through the x-rays and we'll
probably find ultrawide band antennas
there i think all right now everyone is
saying
remove the battery yo video team should
we remove the battery
all right i'll bust out the alcohol can
i have some
no if you want to go blind
i think isopropyl will make you go blind
or something like that
it's definitely not good to all right
steven john you said bruh notice me so
i'm giving you a shout out
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all right so taylor is going to remove
the battery
okay why don't you tell us about your
recent ipad repair
i'm curious to hear that story i feel
like i haven't heard all of it
if you want to you don't have to you
could save it for the video
it doesn't have a happy ending someone
in the audience
is actively trying to help me fix my
ipad
shout out to that person shout out to
moses thank you very much
um yeah so i
i am a novice repair person i before i
started working at ifixit i worked
for i did marketing at a software
company so i had zero technical skills
um and so we thought it would be fun to
have me try like some of the hardest
repairs
and so i did the i swapped out a battery
in a retina macbook pro
if you watched that video half of it is
me
swearing props to my video team for all
of the bleeping that they had to do
that's kind of why i'm not doing tear
downs live right now because you
probably hear
a lot more swearing um but
connectors they're really hard and
you need to be really delicate and so a
lot of times
in devices they'll actually have a black
piece of tape
over a connector and it actually looks
like
the ribbon cable itself and so that's
what happened taylor
i pulled up on the tape and bad things
happened and
we will have a video soon
i can't wait but if you did
miss my macbook battery video um
it's pretty wild how glued down
batteries are to modern devices
i have swapped the battery in my 2012
macbook pro and it took five minutes
and i think the
2015 retina macbook pro battery
replacement just
getting to the battery took like 30
minutes and then it was like 30 more
minutes
of prying um but after i had
my ipad fail i actually reached out to a
few different
uh fixer friends louis rossman being one
of them
and he super cheered me up i was feeling
really really bad so shout out to lewis
he kind of uh
turned my day around and reminded me
that these things happen in repair
and then he sent me a video of when a
macbook battery blew up in his shop
so um really appreciate that
yeah i really can't believe that
apple is still gluing down their macbook
batteries like
yeah they they make a lot of
questionable decisions in their macbooks
but like just straight up gluing down
the batteries when
there's so much space i mean they're
thin you're right
they are thin but like i'm i'm using
this
hp laptop which is equally thin and
just the battery is screwed in place bam
bam bam you take out a couple screws
you got a battery replacement i would
like to know
why they don't have so iphones are great
because they have the adhesive pull tabs
on the battery
which i have like finally i'm not gonna
say mastered it but i've only like
successfully gotten them out
uh probably like two or three times uh
but
would it be possible for them to put
that in a
laptop battery yeah totally they
actually already did it
in the macbook air oh they did yeah
the latest macbook airs have adhesive
pull tabs
totally missed that teardown it was it
was the blog one that i did
um but yeah they they totally do it
or they they have done it for the
macbook air
and they just don't care about the
macbook pro apparently
all right so to get this battery out i
dumped a bunch of isopropyl alcohol
under there and then i'm using the
suction cup to pull it up
and it's finally coming out you can see
some nice adhesive there
that's gross and now it's dripping with
isopropyl alcohol
but as requested
we're doing it here's the battery
that's 4500 milliamp hours or
17.46 watt hours
it's a lot of battery disgusting
adhesive
uh one thing oh i'm gonna botch names i
was listening to
cnet i believe her name's jessica sorry
jessica if you see this
uh she's talking about like a lot of the
like this is a it's a weird time to get
this phone
so this is like you get all of the specs
you get the fancy s pen with the
gestures you get like all of this
battery life but where are we going
like we are at home and so a lot of the
features
that you would normally use this for um
probably not going to use it because you
can plug your phone in at any time
because most of us are home
we're not like throwing the display of
our phone up onto a screen in any fancy
way because
yeah we're at home and so you know
a lot of reviewers have recommended like
if you are
absolutely going to buy this phone like
maybe wait
um wait till we get some deals
and if you have a phone that's working
fine
i would just say wait because e-waste is
horrible yeah
and really samsung phones go on sale
like the week after they're released
so there's a good chance this will be on
sale soon
i think especially if you're going for
the the vanilla note
20 that that phone is really interesting
and we said we would talk about it later
uh and now it's later
i think that all smartphones should use
plastic backs like the note 20 does
like that is hot that is so
much better than the glass it's it's
lighter
it doesn't break when you drop it it's
easier to take off
and put back it doesn't scratch like
glass
it only costs you know a dollar to
replace instead of a hundred dollars
i mean i know it's a hot take but
i i can defend it another hill i will
die on that's
you taylor's like putting his life up
for many hills
today on this live stream so under the
battery i just peeled back
this little tape here and this is that
fingerprint sensor that's under the
display
so that's pretty cool
this i don't know what this is this
might be an ultrawide band antenna
yeah the team is actually really excited
to geek out on all of the ultra wideband
technology so
we are researching that as we speak um
and we'll have lots more
i hope we'll have lots more to say about
it i hope so too
yeah or if you have anything uh tell us
like
tell us what you know about these things
oh no this is a thermal pad
fingerprint sensor maybe no fingerprint
sensor is down here
all right gonna go for some more
questions
maybe parade i fix it for getting the
battery out
batteries uh for everyone saying this is
taking taylor
a while if you guys really want me to do
a teardown i would take twice as long
and i would swear twice as much or 10
times as much
so i think you're doing a great job plus
we're just we're i mean
hanging out you guys in a hurry yeah
we're you got to go
uh someone asked how long until they
slaughter the battery in place
dear everything i hope never yeah
seriously
um it's funny to think about so the note
5 was the first year
yeah the note 5 was the first year that
the battery wasn't user removable
and then they skipped the note 6 and
then the note 7 debacle happened and
just think how much
easier that recall would have been if
you could have popped the battery out
um instead it all exploded
yeah seriously uh someone wants to see
the battery connection
if you're not the battery connection
like the
connector i guess
this is the connector and
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it goes right here on the motherboard
we are basically at the bottom of the
barrel here if you guys want to see
anything else let us know in the chat
but i think we might be ready to call it
yeah i don't have much else
to say i'm gonna put everything in a
nice pretty arrangement here
for you guys to see
and again if you're tuning in late we
have a giveaway kk will mention in a
second
and uh we just finished here
this video will be live on our channel
once we're done so you can watch it from
the beginning
then but if everyone in the comments is
telling us that it's really boring so
maybe you won't want to i don't know
we got some fans in there we have we got
some love
um will we reassemble it yes um we're
not going to reassemble it now because
we're going to do
some shots and some analysis first i
want to mention
the giveaway one more time we are giving
away a pair of galaxy beans
the way to enter is samsung went from
the note 10 to the note 20
and i want to know why but i want to
know why in your words so give me your
most
creative funny whatever you want answer
into the chat and i will pick my
favorite answer
and i will put it in the teardown i'll
announce the teardown
i'll announce the winner and the
teardown that we're gonna do later this
week or early next week
so stay tuned for that and if you're
watching this video
after we are not when we are not live
after it's on the channel
uh you can still you should should be
able to comment in just
the regular comments section so put your
answer there and we will still consider
you for the giveaway
yeah and yeah we're doing all sorts of
teardowns
so if you missed it last week we did
like a combined x-ray teardown of the
apple's new imac that kind of just took
us all by surprise
we also did the galaxy watch
3 and the samsung beans
and then we also will be taking maybe a
look at the pixel 3a
if you're excited dang it um
if you're excited about the pixel 4a uh
go ahead and drop it in the chat i want
to know if you're excited about that
phone
yeah that one's cool because it has a
plastic back which makes it
instantly cool but yeah
i didn't know taylor felt so strongly
about plastic they're so much better
so the vanilla note 20 is getting a lot
of crap for being a thousand dollars
with having a glass dick back
yeah i definitely i i'm sorry to
interrupt you no it's just people
associate premium with like having
the glass so i think i think that this
vanilla note 20 is not worth a thousand
dollars
that's why i was saying like it'll go on
sale soon and then it'll be more worth
it but
uh i mean even this glass or this
plastic
doesn't feel terrible people are crazy
you don't need glass on your phone like
why why do you want more glass on your
phone it's just gonna break
it's true make it plastic this looks
great
shout out to samsung uh well
cool i think that's all we got guys if
you want us to do this again
let us know and we will sign up
yeah thanks for tuning in bye see you
guys
does the matte finish feel more slippery
a lot of people are saying
uh i think glass yes plastic no
can you tell like that it has more
fingerprints on it compared to the
plastic or the glass uh
both of them i guess neither of them
pick up fingerprints that easily
i always think about like coding on
everything
after we just did our like
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we're half life if you're still here
thanks for staying so late
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