Just when I thought I could show up late on a Friday. I walk in, and they already
have the S9 taken apart. I don't know how this happened? I thought it came out next
week, but honestly I doubt that I missed very much. I guess you never know
with color options like lilac purple. Maybe Samsung changed some things up a
bit. So join me as I take my first look
inside the Samsung Galaxy S9 From a teardown perspective there are no
surprises here. The opening procedure is exactly the same as it's been for the
last couple years. Heat and pry up the rear panel. Disconnect the fingerprint
sensor cable, and your in. We've got the same styled mid frame held in place by a
bunch of screws. Which come out in two pieces, and includes the NFC and wireless
charging assembly and the speaker. The 8 megapixel front-facing camera pops right
out after being disconnected from the motherboard. To get the motherboard
out we'll have to disconnect six cables and remove just one screw. Talk about
easy! On the motherboard you'll find the Toshiba made 64 GB of UFS flash
storage, and the four GB of Samsung made lpddr4 X SDRAM. Once it's
out we can disconnect and remove the brand-new dual aperture rear camera. This
camera will flip-flop between F 1.5 and F 2.4 depending on the lighting. The
Galaxy S9 not only kept the headphone jack, but just like the jack in
the S8 it's modular and easy to remove and replace if you need to. Just a drop
of our iFixit adhesive remover is all we needed to get the battery up and out
with little fuss. This is an 11.55 watt hour battery which is the same
capacity as the battery in the Galaxy S8. Last we're left with the 5.8 inch quad
HD plus Super AMOLED display with resolution of 2960 by 1440, and a pixel
density of 570 PPI. With our galaxy S9 completely disassembled it's time to
score its repairability. The Samsung galaxy S9 scored a 4 out of 10. On the upside
lots of 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. On the downside front and back glass makes for
double the crack ability. Strong adhesive on both makes it tough to
access the internals for any repair, and because of the curved screen replacing
the front glass without destroying the display is extremely difficult. That's
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