the galaxy note 9 is samsung's latest
entry in their line of high-end nope
devices and since we haven't seen a
samsung phone since March we figured we
were due for a teardown
there are really no surprises in opening
the note 9 it opens the exact same way
as the galaxy s 9 the galaxy s 9 plus
the note 8 and pretty much every other
Samsung phone we've taken apart in the
past few years we did find a slight
change in the positioning of the
fingerprint sensor where it was once on
the right hand side of the cameras it's
now on the left amazing we've got a mid
frame held in place by a ton of Phillips
screws the top frame comes out with the
wireless charging coil attached and
below that the mid frame speaker combo
also pops right out it's all remarkably
similar to the note II disconnects and
cables remove the front facing camera
and iris scanner three screws and the
motherboard lifts right out on the
motherboard we find the six gigabytes of
Samsung made lpddr4 X SDRAM with the
Snapdragon 845 layered underneath and
128 gigabytes of EU FS storage taking a
look at the cameras we've plugged out we
can see our dual 12 megapixel rear
cameras both of which have optical image
stabilization our 8 megapixel front
facing camera and a tiny iris scanner
next out is the USBC connector and the
headphone jack and while the headphone
jack is still modular it's been changed
from a standard connector to a press
contact connect that is really glueten
place after carefully trying to lift the
press contact up and off the case a slip
of our smudger shows us just how
delicate the headphone jack cable is we
may have gotten it out but it's not
gonna go back in we hit the battery with
a little adhesive mover and after
letting it soak in a bit it PRIZE up
easily this is a three point eight five
volt 15 point 4 watt hour battery which
is a two point six nine watt hour
increase from the note eights twelve
point seven one watt hour battery and
lastly we're left with the display which
is a six point four inch Super AMOLED
display with a resolution of 1440 by
2960 with our teardown complete it's
time to talk for pair bility the galaxy
note 9 scored a 4 out of 10
and here's
why on the upside this notes components
are more modular than ever thanks to
subtle changes to the USBC hardware
headphone jack and s-pen flex the only
screws used our standard Philips screws
you can replace the battery if you're
determined to extremely stubborn glue
barriers make it unnecessarily difficult
but on the downside to service any
component you must first painstakingly
unglue and later reglue the glass rear
panel and finally all-too-common display
repairs require replacing the entire
chassis or TDC separating the gluey
cracked glass