what's got an edge-to-edge 6.3 inch
Super AMOLED display and hopefully one
explode it's the Samsung Galaxy Note 8
and we're gonna tear it down if you've
ever taken apart the Galaxy S 8 or seen
us do it the opening procedure for the
note 8 will look familiar
heat up the side of the phone use a
suction cup to create a gap and begin
gentle prying with opening picks
we discovered the fingerprint sensor
cable was still attached to the
motherboard and located along the side
of the phone good thing we were careful
with our opening pics we could have
easily damaged this cable during the
opening procedure it's deja vu all over
again as we spy the mid-frame NFC
antenna wireless charging coil combo
that's held in place by Phillips screws
these components look very similar to
the ones that we saw in the Galaxy s8
and si plus interestingly the note 8
isn't joining the dongle trend we've
been seeing lately and even better its
headphone jack is completely modular
just remove a Philips screw and it fries
right out we turned our attention to the
motherboard several cables and just one
Phillips screw holds it in place and
once it's removed the board lifts right
out with modular cameras attached facing
the front of the phone is both the 8
megapixel F 1.7 selfie camera in the
iris scanner and facing the rear we have
Samsung's new dual camera module with
one wide-angle and one telephoto camera
both with optical image stabilization
this camera system allows for some
pretty cool features including live
focus and dual capture over on the
motherboard we find six gigabytes of
Samsung made lpddr4 X SDRAM layered over
the Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 and 64
gigabytes have also Samsung made ufs
flash storage if you're looking for more
we've got a complete list of chips we
ID'd over on the teardown at ifixit.com
the USB C port a component that will
receive a lot of wear is also modular
and easy to remove last out was the
battery and just like other Galaxy
phones it's glued in place this battery
comes in a twelve point seven one watt
hours which is actually six percent less
than the note seven
13.4 a our battery but we all
remember what happened there with our
note 8 completely disassembled it's time
to talk repairability
the Samsung Galaxy Note 8 scored a 4 out
of 10 and here's why
on the upside many components including
all those that experience where our
modular and can be replaced
independently the only screws in this
phone our standard Phillips screws the
battery can be replaced but tough
adhesive and a glued on rear panel make
it unnecessarily difficult but on the
downside all repairs require removing
the rear glass panel which is
challenging due to the large amount of
adhesive and finally replacing the
display requires removing the rear glass
panel and the display both of which are
fragile and secured with strong adhesive
head on over to ifixit.com
to see the complete teardown which
includes tons of high quality images and
some sweet x-rays from our friends over
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