hey guys Scott from iFixit here and
today I'm going to be talking about the
tear down of the galaxy s 8s p8 +
overall pretty similar to other galaxy
phones for example taking the rear panel
off requires lots of work as it's super
adhered the nice thing is once you fight
through it though we are greeted by
Phillips screws and that's something
nice - T and then the headphone jack can
pop out the cameras can come out kind of
easily which is very nice for repair
ability one of the things that does need
to be talked about is the battery
because it was super adhered to the
phone and we all know Samsung has had
issues with batteries before and namely
the note 7 one thing we did notice is
that things such as the voltage and
power ratings were identical however can
we say if this battery is going to
explode not really because it was more
internal component that we're causing
the note 7 batteries to explode not so
much the voltage itself stopped being
said it is still super adhered to the
phone so worst-case scenario Samsung
does have another exploding battery
they're going to have a lot of work
getting these exploding batteries out of
the phone we also removed the display
now the edge to edge display looks very
nice and it feels nice in the hand that
being said it's pretty hard to take off
it's heavily adhered to the phone and
although we were able to take this
display off without damaging it I think
people that aren't experienced might
have issues trying to remove this
without cracking the OH LED or the
digitizer another component we wanted to
look at was the camera we wanted to pull
the cameras out of that Samsung Galaxy
s8 maybe compare that to those found in
the example and galaxy s7 now when we
pulled the camera out of the s8 namely
the rear-facing camera and tried to
compare it it looked identical to the
rear facing camera found in the s7
however upon some further investigation
we looked at the specifications and
found that the s8 does in fact have a
different image sensor whether or not
the image sensor is going to cause a
huge difference in how the camera
functions the jury's still out but we'll
be curious to hear what happens after
publishing the teardown we got some
questions on Twitter Josh Oz does how
will the curve display of that repair
ability is there any silver lining to
this one
although the curved display does look
nice
historically curb displays are a little
tougher to repair because it's harder to
get the display off without cracking
anything or breaking it so unfortunately
I think the curb display is going to
negatively affect the repair ability of
the phone you know how the home button
works since there's no pressure sensor
does it have a separate topic engine or
use the same vibration motor now the
home button although it's in a new
location and there is no pressure sensor
it's still maybe not the most new
technology it's likely a capacitive
touch sensor similar to those found on
the iPhone also the vibration that's
going to be generated when you touch it
is just like any other haptic vibration
motor found in the phone similar to that
in the s7 and there's only one haptic
motor in the film am i right and
observing that the charging port flex
module no longer has a button ribbon
that folds around the mid frame and
underneath the glass if so text
everywhere rejoicing right now well text
everywhere should be rejoicing as
there's no longer any physical buttons
there there's no longer any ribbon
cables that you can cut when trying to
take the display there for repair
ability is going to be a bit easier
it's the s8 rear camera interchangeable
with the s7 now we did put an s7 camera
on the board of an SI and the connector
fits but the form factor of the camera
itself is different so you're not going
to be able to squeeze an s7 camera into
and down ps8 lastly since publishing the
teardown we've already had two people
notify us that they've broken their rear
panels really hope this isn't part of a
larger trend but we'll have to wait and
find out if you hadn't had the chance to
already check out the full teardown on
optics comm or you can check out the
video teardown here on our channel see
you next time
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