two weeks ago we have the Nexus 9 tablet
on our teardown table and it scored a
measly three out of ten on a
repairability scale due to it's
complicated interior fused LCD and the
use of tons of adhesive well today we're
taking a look at Google and Motorola's
entry into the phablet market the Nexus
6 will its core just as low as the nine
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 Nexus 6 if you're
in the market for a really big phone the
Nexus 6 just might be for you for
comparison the Nexus 6 is larger than
the iPhone 6 plus measuring in at eighty
two point nine eight millimeters by 150
nine point two six millimeters and is
ten point zero six millimeters thick it
weighs in a bit heavier than the galaxy
note 4 at 184 grams and it sports a five
point nine six inch qHD AMOLED display
that has a resolution of 2560 by 1440
and a pixel density of 493 pixels per
inch
getting into the Nexus 6 required a
little help from one of our opening pics
as the back panel was held in place by
some adhesive fortunately the adhesive
is mild enough that we were able to
remove the back cover without the
assistance of our eye opener even with
the back cover off we still don't have
access to the internals of the phone but
we do spot a welcome sight screws lots
of them actually there's a total of 22
t3 Torx screws to remove and a cable
hidden in a secret compartment that we
have to disconnect before we get the
phone apart with all those screws
removed we finally get our first peek
inside the Nexus 6 the Nexus 6
essentially splits in two halves one
that contains the mid frame in the
battery assembly and the other that has
the motherboard assembly and the display
we get to work on the first side and
peel out the battery and it's inductive
charging coil while the battery is held
in place by adhesive technically making
it a non removable battery we were able
to get it out with little effort this is
a three thousand two hundred and twenty
milliamp hour battery that google claims
will give you up to 24 hours of talktime
and nine and a half hours of browsing on
Wi-Fi when we turn our attention to the
second half of the phone we get a closer
look at the rear-facing camera this
13 megapixel camera that sports a Sony
Exmor IMX 2:14 CMOS sensor that comes
equipped with optical image
stabilization just like the iPhone 6
plus it also has an F 2.0 aperture dual
LED ring flash and is capable of
capturing 4k video at 30 frames per
second with the camera out of the way we
pride a motherboard from the display
assembly so we can check out the chips
on board first up we find the three
gigabytes of SK Hynix LP ddr3 RAM with
the Qualcomm Snapdragon 805 system on a
chip layered underneath right next door
we see the 32 gigabytes of SanDisk emmc
NAND flash memory 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 Nexus
6 scored a 7 out of 10 and here's why on
the upside pressure contacts and cable
connectors make modular components easy
to replace the Nexus 6 uses a single
kind of screw many screws hold the mid
frame in place this makes its removal
somewhat tedious but also means no clips
or adhesive is needed to secure the
front panel the glutton battery is less
accessible than we'd like but it can be
replaced but on the downside several
components are soldered directly to the
motherboard and will be more difficult
to replace
than if they were connected by cables
and finally the digitizer is fused to
the display increasing repair costs for
a crack screen but it is easy to get to
the bare display assembly and that's our
teardown for the complete teardown
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