earlier this week our teardown engineers
got their hands on the Samsung Galaxy s7
and our tools barely had time to cool
before we got the s7 edge while the s7
and the s7 edge have very similar specs
we know the s7 s big brother has an edge
over its little brother in size but will
it pull out more surprises when we open
him up there's only one way to find out
let's tear it down
hi I'm Gwendolyn with iFixit and today
we're tearing down the samsung galaxy s7
edge comparing the s7 edge to its
slightly smaller brother shows the two
phones look remarkably similar with the
exception of the edges curved display
and edge notifications the s7 edge
measures in at 150 point nine
millimeters by 72 point six millimeters
it is seven point seven millimeters
thick and weighs in at 157 grams the
display is a 5.5 inch Super AMOLED
capacitive touchscreen that has a
resolution of 2560 by 1440 and a pixel
density of 534 pixels per inch before we
open the edge up we had to check out our
edge notifications to show off that
curvy Oh le D display unfortunately
nobody knows our new number
getting into the edge is a very similar
process to that of the standard s7 after
liberal application of heat our ice
clack and Pitt combo is super effective
despite some extremely stubborn adhesive
last year we were super disappointed by
the s6 edges battery being trapped under
the motherboard but we're happy to find
out that that's not the case with the
new s7 edge we extract the whopping 3600
milliamp hour burner of a battery that's
20% more capacity than the already
capacious 3000 milliamp hour battery in
the s7 it seems the trade-off for a
marginally thicker edge will be a longer
battery life and less wear from frequent
charging nice when we get the
motherboard out we have a chance to see
all it offers first there's four
gigabytes of SK Hynix made lpddr4 SDRAM
layered over the Qualcomm Snapdragon 820
32 gigabytes of Samsung made mlc
universal flash towards 2.0 and on the
other side you'll see the Murata made
Wi-Fi module and the nxp made NFC
controller for the complete list of
chips head on over to our teardown a
tech fix-it comm on the cooling front
the s7 edge has the same liquid cooling
heat pipe we saw in the galaxy s7 in
case you missed it check out the galaxy
s7 teardown on our site for all our
detailed findings 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
Samsung Galaxy s7 edge got a 3 out of 10
and here's why on the upside many
components are modular and can be
replaced independently but on the
downside the display needs to be removed
if you want to replace the USB port
front and back glass make for double the
crack ability and strong adhesive on the
rear glass makes it very difficult to
gain entry into the device and finally
replacing the glass without destroying
the display is probably impossible and
that's our teardown for the complete
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