if you thought your smartphone choices
were limited to Samsung and Apple think
again
Chinese upstart oneplus aims to change
everything you know about smartphones
and they think they can do it with a
brand new oneplus one as this is the
company's flagship device we know that
they are hoping to make a splash in the
smartphone world even their philosophy
never settle sounds promising so let's
get the oneplus one on our teardown
table and see if they can deliver hi I'm
going to Lin with iFixit and today we
find out what 1+1 equals on our
repairability scale unimpressed with the
current designs on the market oneplus
set out to according to them make a
phone that was just as beautiful as it
was powerful and the results of that
quest were the brand new oneplus one
designed and assembled in China the one
is powered by a custom version of
Android called CyanogenMod 11s an
open-source operating system for
smartphones and it's only the second
smartphone on the market to use it
the oneplus one measures in at 150 two
point nine millimeters by seventy five
point nine millimeters and is 8.9
millimeters at its thickest and weighs
in at 162 grams this is a big phone so
if you're like me plan on using both
hands with the help of this cute sim
eject tool thoughtfully provided by one
plus we take the SIM card out and get to
work on removing the backplate
fortunately for us it's only secured in
place by a few clips just a simple
opening tool needed opening doesn't get
much better than this with our first
look inside the device we see the
eye-catching bright red battery and not
much else to see anything else we're
gonna have to dig in further so first up
we're gonna work on the batteries after
such an easy opening we were
disappointed to find the battery
connector it's located underneath a
screwed in panel but not only is oneplus
trying to hide the battery connector
from us they're also trying to hide the
screws themselves rubber stoppers and
stickers covered the majority of screws
holding the interior cover in place with
the internal cover finally off the phone
we're able to remove the battery
this bright power source reveals itself
to be 3.8 both 3100 milliamp our lithium
polymer battery that fares well when
compared to other recent Android devices
such as the Galaxy s5
came in at 2800 milliamp hours and the
HTC One m8 which came in at 2600
milliamp hours with the battery finally
removed we set to work on getting the
motherboard out after disconnecting
several connectors including a tricky
antenna connected underneath we get a
closer look at all the chips on the
board on the front and the largest chip
you'll see is the three gigabytes of
Samsung lpddr3 RAM and likely stacked
underneath is 2.5 gigahertz quad-core
Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 on the other
side you'll find the Toshiba made emmc
5.0 onboard storage of which our phone
had 64 gigabytes and another Qualcomm
chip handling both the oneplus one 802
11 AC Wi-Fi and it's Bluetooth 4.0
connectivity before moving on to the
display we turn our attention to the
front panel assembly and find a speaker
assembly in USB port that are relatively
easy to remove from the phone and after
we remove a few ribbon cables we check
out the various components that call the
daughter board home such as the
vibrators a few LED lights for the front
panel assembly capacitive buttons and
the primary microphone of which this
phone has a total of three the three
microphones work together to isolate and
enhance your voice and filter out
background noise finally we take a good
hard look at the display getting the
display assembly free from the mid frame
was not the hardest attachment we've
ever done but it wasn't much fun either
the display was fused to the mid frame
so we had to enlist the help of our eye
opener and opening pics to finally free
it this is a 5.5 IPS display that has a
resolution of 920 by 1080 and a pixel
density of 401 pixels per inch
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 one being the most difficult the
oneplus one got a 5 out of 10
and here's why on the upside there's no
proprietary screws and fairly modular
components will allow for less expensive
replacement parts but on the downside
with its connector trapped under a
plastic panel and several screws the
battery is more of a chore to replace
than we'd like
and finally the LCD and digitizer glass
are fused together and must be replaced
as a single part and that's our teardown
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