hey guys I'm going to live with iFixit
and today we're tearing down the Samsung
Galaxy s8 plus the s8 plus is carrying a
lot of weight on its shoulders after the
note seven battery disaster with the
boost to its processor a Super AMOLED
dual edged display and a 12 megapixel
camera the s8 plus is sure to impress
but will the new design of Samsung's
flagship phone be enough to win back its
customers there's only one way to find
out let's tear it down
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as always getting in is no joke when it
comes to Galaxy phones and the FA plus
is no exception
tons of heat and prying is the only
solution to get the rear panel up but
not exactly off since the fingerprint
reader lives on the rear panel and is
still attached to the motherboard by a
small cable we would have liked to start
by disconnecting the battery but its
connector lies trapped beneath the mid
frame this mid frame is held in place by
a ton of Phillips screws and it comes
out in pieces just like it did in the s7
and s7 edge this time the upper antenna
assembly is combined with the NFC
wireless charging panel next out was the
action packed motherboard with all three
cameras still attached the 8 megapixel
selfie cam and an iris scanning camera
like the one we previously saw in the
note 7 came out with just a twist of our
spudger and lastly we removed the rear
facing camera the hero sony of old has
been traded in for the dream one sony
for the rear-facing main camera labeling
variations aside though this appears to
be the same camera hardware as in the s7
s7 edge Samsung has refined the software
nothing else with the cameras off we
took a look at the chips on the
motherboard
some chips of note are the four
gigabytes of Samsung made lpddr4 Ram
layered over the snapdragon 835 and the
Toshiba 64 gigabytes ufs NAND flash plus
controller if you want to check out the
complete list of chips we've identified
head on over to our teardown at
ifixit.com the modular headphone jack is
a cinch to remove which is good news for
repair ability and the i/o daughterboard
is held in place by just a few screws
and some lighted pieces there's a lot of
ingress proofing and evidence here
including the speaker grille surround
and the tiny seals on the USB type-c
connect
and headphone jack finally we decide to
tackle that heavily glued in battery and
it's still a bear to cry off that
adhesive even with the battery fully
removed the glue won't let go the s8
plus features a thirteen point four
eight watt hours 3500 milliamp hour at
three point eight five volt battery the
exact same capacity as the note seven
and a little less than the s7 edge is
thirteen point eight six watt hour so
what did the Samsung Galaxy s8 plus
score on a repairability meter it got a
four out of ten and here's why
on the upside many components are
modular and can be replaced
independently the battery can be
replaced but tough adhesive and a glued
on rear panel make it unnecessarily
difficult but on the downside front and
back glass make for double the crack
ability and strong adhesive on both
makes it tough to access the internals
for any repair and finally because of
the curved screen replacing the front
glass without destroying the display is
probably impossible and that's our
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