Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra 5G LIVE Teardown! By iFixit

Are we live, are we live? Did we do it? Did we do it? Oh, my gosh. Everything feels pretty weird in 2020. Who knows what life is anymore? Where are you reading some on the chat? Uh cool? I guess we are live all right, hey everybody, uh, I'm OK, and I'm Taylor, and today we are going to take apart or Taylor's gonna. Take apart the note 20 ultra, which is Samsung's newest flagship, um, we're doing this one a little different, so Kayla. You want to talk through how we are safely doing this teardown and I don't just mean disconnecting the battery. As you can tell, we are back in the studio, uh we and we're not wearing masks.

We are being very safe, though we OK and I are six feet apart and our video guys are also six feet away from us. They also have very foggy glasses because they're all masked and yeah in my last video, I was wearing a mask for some audio and a lot of you noticed so uh we're doing our best to bring you good quality video and also be very safe. Yep, and so with that, I think we're gonna. I guess some housekeeping rules uh, if you have any questions during the teardown, go ahead and drop them in the chat I'll do my best to answer them, even if I don't answer them during the stream I'll try to get to them afterwards, and we're also going to be giving away a pair of beans uh. So we really like galaxy beans.

Taylor's talk to me a little about this teardown. You just finished it yeah. I just tore down the Galaxy Buds live, and they are far and away my new favorite wireless earbuds um. They do have an unconventional fit in your ears. So it kind of depends on that.

If you like them or not, but the good news is they are very repairable. We gave them an 8 out of 10 on our repairability scale, which is the highest we've ever scored a pair of earbuds and honestly higher than I ever thought. Earbuds would get so yeah. They are very cool. They have uh, just they're very tidy inside you go watch the teardown after this live stream.

Obviously, very cool yeah, so we hadn't really seen a repairable pair of earbuds, yet so excited to see those. And so, if you want to win um, I always laugh at just naming conventions of devices. So we went from the note 10 to the note 20. What the heck happened to the 11 through 19. , it's 20 20.

So I guess anything can happen um, but I want the funniest most creative thing you got so tell me why they went from the note one, the note 10 to the note 20, and I will pick the most creative answer and announce the winner in our tear down, because we're going to do a full, step-by-step, side-by-side, tear down of the note 20 and the note 20 ultra this week, so stay tuned for that yeah. So one more time give us your most creative answer for why Samsung went to galaxy, 10 or note 10, to note 20 and put the answer in the chat, and then we will pick the winner and announce it in our tear down coming later this week or early next week, probably perfect, and with that I guess Taylor is gonna, get started yeah, let's do it, let's do it so here we have both notes, the 20 ultra and what we will call the vanilla 20. I guess it's always hard when they put a differentiator on one but not the other. So let's get them out of the box. Here I will make a disclaimer as I pull them out of the box.

We have opened them already, as you can tell this one's turned on this is the node ultra. We like OK, said we're going to be tearing down both of them in a step-by-step teardown coming soon, but today we are just going to be looking at the note 20 ultra, so the mystic bronze one mystic bronze and go ahead. Oh yeah, I was just thinking um from all the reviews that I've seen so far. Reviewers didn't get what we call the vanilla note 20. They only got the note 20 ultra.

I think Samsung probably did that on purpose. The note 20 ultra has a lot more specs, I'm not going to go spec by spec, literally every other reviewer out. There has the comparison of the specs, but I will mention that I'm really sad that the vanilla note doesn't have the ultra or the SD slot for expandable storage. So if you are gonna, buy this phone choose your specs wisely. Definitely true.

I do think it's fascinating that they didn't send the vanilla note to any of the reviewers. Like I don't know, I we can talk more later about the differences between the two, but I think that vanilla note is a very interesting phone. I would like to know why Taylor thinks that's interesting, but luckily we'll be doing a full teardown of that, and I'll get to know soon all right. Well, we have the note 20 ultra here, one more disclaimer uh. I did actually open this before the live stream because uh, I have terrible luck with opening galaxy phones.

I really hate how they just put an unsupported glass panel in the back, and then they're like all right just get in there. So I did open this one time already. It's probably read here just a little, so I'm going to heat it up, and then we'll get back inside yeah. So the opening process on galaxy phones are on note. Specifically, it wasn't always horrible notes, one through four uh.

They didn't even need any heat, and they had to use replaceable batteries. I have a note 4 here for nostalgia, factor um, but that was really cool. These replaceable batteries were cool um and getting these phones open, I mean there's just a heck ton of adhesive on there, so it usually takes a bit but um Taylor's using the heat gun, and it's actually not. I mean like it's, not the worst amount of adhesive, it's just the glass that they use. They use they're on the note 20 ultra.

They have they're using the new gorilla glass Vitus, which is interesting and supposed to be like the perfect blend of hardness and scratch proof. But I don't think that they're using that same glass for the back- and I mean certainly in the past- they haven't been, so it's just. The glass always wants to break when you uh get inside or when you try to yeah and so uh yeah. That is that um. One thing I have to give apple kudos for is they have a so screens, and batteries are always the first thing they're the most common repair screens break, especially if you're me and batteries need replacing after so many charge cycles, and one thing apple does really well, it's a screen first opening procedure, so you can pop the screen off work on the components on the inside and that's great Samsung phones as well as a lot of other phones um.

You have to take all the components out before you can even get to the display, which is no fun and what Taylor is battling with right now. If you watch this channel a few of you in the chat said, why am I not doing it? There would be a lot more swearing, and we wouldn't get the beautiful glamour shots that we usually get in our tear downs. So if you do want me to do a tear down um, the chip ID would probably like I've used our airflow station and like fried the boards before so probably not a good thing for me to do. Unless you want to see that all right, we are back inside. So one thing that I wanted to say really quick about what you were talking about, the iPhones.

We love them for their screen, first opening procedure, but not every phone that has a screen. First. Opening procedure is great, like some older pixel phones also have the screen first opening procedure and what they, what they did not do. The apple does is support the screen, and so you can basically pry. However, you want, and you're not going to break the screen on an iPhone because there's like a metal plate there and anyone who does the back first opening procedure could do that same thing, but they all just choose to put this unsupported piece of glass.

Cough pixel cough essential, not calling anyone out kind of calling some folks out. So this is the back panel. You can see uh, there's a rear microphone on here that just connects with some contact pins, and do you want to talk about some microphone recording modes that we were mentioning earlier sure there are some microphones that that's my take on the microphones um. I have actually never used an android device before, so I've, never really, never! No wow! I hate when people ask me what my favorite phone is, because it's like guys, I take phones apart, so I never. We get like what 10 seconds of play time with things.

So I can tell you about the construction of them like last year, Samsung. In the note they moved the motherboard to the top, which is something that the pixel did. So we could get a wider battery in there and I believe that this phone from reviewers they have just a lot more options for pro recording, so they have mics that can go in both directions. As I was doing, some research on Samsung note. Phones in general.

I actually read that the note 4 was the first smartphone to film a 4k feature film in which is pretty cool. I didn't I yeah that's a cool thing, but yeah. Furthermore, I haven't really used these phones a lot that is crazy to me. Um one of my favorite phones that I ever owned was a Galaxy Note. It was the Galaxy Note, 3 and yeah.

I love that phone. That was back when you could just like to rip the back cover off and um. It was actually kind of a weird phone that the back was like fake leather, and that was a weird phase that this feels weird yeah. The note 4 has this leather thing and I picked it up, and I was like that's strange yeah but yeah. I love that phone.

The s pen is uh of questionable utility. Obviously it depends on who you are but uh they really do. Pack. Some interesting features into these note phones. So a few people in the chat are saying: do we read the chat today? Yes, I'm reading it right now, um trying to keep up, but there's kind of a lot going on so attempting to so back to note 20 ultra.

I am we're inside obviously, and I am just taking out some of the screws that are holding the wireless charging coil down, and then we can disconnect the battery in the meantime. Can somebody grab me a magnetic mat, so I can keep my screws organized. I totally forgot to grab one yesterday um. I could do it. Do you want me to do it all right? I'm going to go grab a mat and try not to touch anything.

Has anybody had an uh funny Galaxy Note 10 to note 20 reason. Yet: oh someone said no. These are going too fast. I will find one or maybe someone on my team can tell me their favorites and start slapping me, so I can keep up a little better um. One thing to note about the magnetic mat, so people always have very clever ways of keeping their screws organized, and I was doing an iPad repair.

I was doing an iPad repair fail the other day, and I was using a blow-dryer, and I was just using like cartons to keep things set and if you're like frazzled having the magnetic mat, is just so helpful because if you are using heat- and I don't know, repairs takes a lot of concentration, it's really nice to be able to have your screws magnetized to the mat, or else you could lose them and lose them you might, it's so easy to lose screws. I actually only have two screws on the bottom of my 2012 MacBook Pro, and I saw that the other day, which is horrible, because that allows for ingress points and um. You know you can get dirt and water and all sorts of bad things in there, and we sell MacBook feet kits. So I'm just a very bad example of how you should care for your laptop um, all right. So all right, I think I got all the screws here.

I'm trying not to put my head in the overhead cam like I always do it's hard um. When we were filming from home. I tried filming with a DSLR for the first time and, like all of my clips, were out of focus, and I was completely over my overhead cam, so props to everyone who knows how to film themselves it's a skill and so Taylor. What are you doing? You're taking out the mid-frame, uh yeah, it's its less of a mid-frame. Now they used to be kind of like mid-frames, but these days it's just like mostly wireless charging coil, and then they have these little plastic frames.

I guess wireless charging are people excited about wireless charging. Is that a thing yeah? I mean, I think some people are excited about it. We uh medium one zero just published a piece about how inefficient wireless charging are uh and they featured Kyle our CEO and Arthur one of uh, my fellow tech writers, um, and it was really kind of bleak, like wireless charging is very cool and convenient. But when you look at it from an efficiency standpoint, it's just like terrible, so it's your, you're kind of wasting energy and that's sad yeah. I would love for someone to drop that article into the chat um Eric ravens craft, who I really love on Twitter, he's an excellent writer, and he writes for all sorts of organizations.

He wrote that article and in it, he had claimed that they did a bunch of tests and found that wireless chargers were they used 47 percent, more power than a charging cable, and I know that doesn't sound like a lot when you take one device, but if you think about that and multiply it by how many devices have wireless charging, it starts to get real scary. So I just got that charging coil off. You can see. Basically it just comes out with this metal plate and the lower speaker, and that's it now. We can move on to disconnect the battery, which is this guy right here, and then we can disconnect the other cables up here, and I think next we will go for this upper mid-frame piece and then the motherboard is so in the note 10.

I promise I'm going to say s10, probably or s20 a lot of times so bear with me. It's the note uh. In the note 10 we saw a kind of like a half stacked motherboard, which was pretty cool yeah. Are we seeing the same thing here? Do we know? Yet we don't know, yet it's kind of hard to tell honestly I'm guessing. We will see it uh, like usually they carry the technology from the galaxy line straight across to the note, so I'm guessing it'll be here, but we'll see yeah so the first time that we saw the first time recently we saw a stack motherboard was in the iPhone 10 uh and that was really cool and that allowed them to cram like so much more tech into there.

But uh. We originally saw a stacked motherboard in the original iPhone which a lot of people don't know um. So I always thought that was really cool, and so I'm going to take a look at the chat, um yeah. What are the people saying? How's it going um? Fine, it's going fine yeah! It's going pretty good! It's a good day, good question, um! What's the battery capacity um, I know it's at 1450, William hours, yeah, it's its 4500, William yeah scotch under the s 20s 5000 yeah. There are actually a lot of interesting ways that this phone is less powerhouse than the note or then the galaxy to s20 and the battery is one of them.

The cameras are slightly different, and some ways are better in some ways or worse. But normally the note is like the peak of Samsung and this year it's just a little watered down, which is interesting. I'm I'm curious where they're going to take it next year. Yeah. So I mean you can't talk about, and I'll talk about it quickly because it happened a long time ago.

But the note 7, as we all know, was a little of a disaster yeah. That phone was lit literally um, and so I'm always curious about like the cooling systems. So Samsung has just done everything to up battery capacity, and so what is that this is the top half of that mainframe with the front firing speaker like the earpiece speaker- and this is the laser autofocus system and the camera flash, and this later out. Laser autofocus system is interesting because the galaxy s 20, which debuted the 108 megapixel camera sensor, had a pretty awful time with autofocus, because most of the autofocus systems that have been implemented thus far for mobile cameras like they don't have to do as much because they're using smaller sensors. But since this is like a gig, I mean it's gigantic for a smartphone.

Since it's such a big sensor, though uh Samsung needed to do something to help with the autofocus. So what they did is they're using this laser, which is pretty cool and reviewers, say that it works pretty well, so that's nice yeah, a lot of people gave the s2 yep got it right, the s9 ultra crap about the autofocus and that sensor, so it is cool to see them fix it yeah. Definitely, and now there are a lot of pictures on here or pictures. There are a lot of questions on here, so I'm going to try to get through them um. How does the on-screen fingerprint sensor work? Have we gotten to the fingerprint uh yeah? We haven't gotten there, yet we'll get there.

It's an ultrasonic fingerprint sensor like the previous ones, so yeah some folks are just asking about the battery um. So Samsung's done a lot over the years since the note 7 to really like up their cooling systems, so they've, there's always just like massive amounts of like copper, heat pipes or vapor chambers, and so I'm sure we'll probably get a glimpse of that as Taylor's tunneling through the phone as well yeah. Once we get past the motherboard we'll be able to see that heat sink that you're talking about I'm trying to decide where we should go next. I just got that top frame part out, and I guess, let's see, we can go for cameras next, maybe yeah. Let's do that cameras, um, okay and trying so yeah.

Let's maybe, let's run through these camera specs real, quick, the s, no, not s! The note 20 ultra has a triple rear camera, which the top one is the 12 megapixel ultra-wide, which is the same as the s20. Then the middle one is the 108 megapixel wide angle, which is like the main sensor and that's the 108 megapixel. One then to the right which I just took out is the laser autofocus and the lower sensor is a 12 megapixel, telephoto camera, which we actually tore down, and I have right here. Let me zoom in enhance zoom and enhance. So this is a torn down version of this uh zoom lens and basically there's a prism in here, and it can move back and forth.

This is really hard to show you, but it can move back and forth, and that is basically how the camera zooms and in the s20 ultra it was up to 100 times zoom. In the note here, it's only 50 times, zoom, which I mean both of those are ridiculous and more than you'll ever need. But the idea is you get better quality zoom at like three or five times zoom than you would with like a normal sensor. So that's pretty cool. I was just going to say before you pop out those cameras.

A few people are asking if they can see it from the side. Oh yeah, to see how far the camera is: yeah yeah. Let me zoom out here again cool okay. So the reveal the moment of truth. How far did the cameras actually stick out right about there uh Jerry had like a Lego when his phone when he did his test, he had like a Lego next to it, and it was like equal sized, which I thought was cute.

I also just really like Legos but yeah, but yeah this camera bump is pretty big. You know like I, I personally think they did a decent job, making it look good for how big it is, but it's definitely subjective. A lot of people are going to hate it obviously yeah uh. It's its funny, because when you think about like the origins of the note, Samsung was really the first company to push the form factor into the phablet form factor, and they did it in 2011, which is the same time. We got the iPhone 4s, and they did it with like a super outdated stylus, which everyone thought it was an outdated stylus, which was not the s pen is like their most trademarkable thing and the reduce yeah.

It's a really cool pen, and it's much better than a traditional stylus um. So oh yeah, and it's its interesting because they, so they debuted the note line like all the way back then, like you were saying, and the early notes were, they were huge at the time, but they right now, almost any mainstream smartphone is bigger than the original note. So it's just funny how, over time our perspective has shifted and now like this phone is gigantic seriously. It's like tablet sized, but you know back. Then people were calling a 4.5 inch phone, a phablet like that. That's when people started saying phablet and now every single phone is that big.

So that's funny real quick! I forgot that the camera is trapped by the motherboard here. So I'm going for a motherboard now sounds good. Some people are asking how much ram there is. We will leave some secrets to reveal in our full side-by-side. The spec is 12 gigabytes, though yeah um any idea why they flipped the side of the s pen.

I don't know, but I'd like to think that they're just doing a solid for left-handed folks, they don't get any love, so actually really hurt my right hand and during quarantine tried to teach myself to be ambidextrous and right with my left and for all you lefties out there, I'm so sorry about paper, smudging and just yeah. That feels really unfair. Nothing is meant for you, so I am happy that this one is, I don't know good for Samsung. So here's the note 10 with the pen on the opposite side- and I mean this is partially reassembled, so I can't really tell what's going on, but I don't see like any obvious reason why they would have flipped the pen side like just looking at this. Let us know in the comments, if you have any ideas, because that really is interesting like why would they just put it on the other side, when it's been on the same side for 10 years now, yeah, they just want to keep us on our toes, maybe like and one other thing that it could be is uh, something maybe something to do with antennas like TH this.

This wait was the note 10 5g. I can't remember it was so not the first 5g phone, but this is the first phone with well the first Samsung phone with ultra-wideband antennas, which is something the iPhone put in the iPhone 11 last year and some it maybe has something to do with that. But uh we're going to like we're gonna look for those later. When we get there and yeah, I need to stop getting distracted, so motherboard. Well, true, advanced technology is fascinating to me.

Um. I think we're all waiting for ear tags. I yes yeah. Furthermore, I can't believe that those haven't come out, yet it is very surprising- and I think we're all just waiting for him and the application of that technology has just a lot of opportunity. Um.

The way that it can zero in on things so closely, uh at a distance is great, so it is really cool. Go ahead. I was just gonna, see other questions, so something that I'm always curious about when we take apart. Phones is who's buying this phone. So if you plan on buying the note 20 ultra or the note, 20 uh tell me in the chat and tell me what phone you're upgrading from I always want to know why someone is upgrading or what features that you're really excited about.

Um a lot of the reviews. I read said that if you are on a note 10 that you know you probably don't need to upgrade, this thing is 1300. It is everything that you could probably want a smartphone to be. But you know it is a pretty minimal spec bump from the note 10. So if you are buying this phone, tell me why and nobody look but uh.

I forgot to take the sim card out. I forget that literally every time I'm pretty sure we forgot yeah. We did that on the iPhone.11 live stream and people gave us a ton of crap, so let's all just be kind to each other.2020 is hard enough. Let's not give each other crap. So I am seeing some responses.

People are upgrading from the s7, the note8 wow s7. That's a big upgrade yeah. That is a big upgrade uh. If we're boring you I'm sorry, don't watch yeah, you don't have to play um, let's see, so we have some people now lots of people are responding. Can it be your girlfriend for thirteen hundred dollars? I mean you.

Do you, man, whatever makes you happy in this day and age like I'm, for it, they're saying, if the note can be your girlfriend for 200, I mean yeah? Didn't they make a movie about that her? If they I what movie her? I think it's called her. Oh okay, I was like what all right we have some people upgrading from the OnePlus 5 uh and others are saying that they put the s pen on the other side because of the buttons. So I've never had a phone with the. I don't know the gesture side things does that get in your way. When I don't know what phone you've been on lately uh, I have an iPhone 10s, so yeah the buttons are on the opposite side: hmm, a real mystery there.

Okay, this sim card does not want to come out. Uh, that's okay, so for people that are buying this phone who's going to get the mystic bronze. Is anybody going to get the mystic bronze yeah? What do you guys think about the mystic colors? I'm naming conventions for tech are just they're a lot they really are and for anyone tuning in late to our stream, we are giving away a pair of Galaxy Buds live um which are beans. They are beans literally, if you saw our tear down on the inside of these buds, Samsung calls them beans and so to win. I just want the most creative funny answer for why Samsung went from the note 10 to the note 20, and they skipped everything in between, and I'll pick my favorite and announce that in our full, step-by-step teardown of the note 20 and the note 20 ultra, either later this week or early next week.

What phone do you have right now, KKK? I also have the 10s, so the only smartphones I've had oh, this is embarrassing. I had the iPhone 5c because of the color and that's really embarrassing. That's fine uh, and then I had my iPhone 6s for a very, very long time. I gave it I've written about it a lot. I think I gave it like three screens uh.

No, it was like four screens, three batteries, all new screws. I three home buttons um, I don't know, I just broke that phone a lot, but now I'm on my 10s and I love it. Tennis is a great phone because it still has haptic touch like the 3d touch thing that iPhones do and uh. That is a hill I will die on. It was the best thing ever so come at me in the comments.

You're going to get so many comments. Okay, people are not gonna, be happy about that. Moving on uh, here's, the motherboard, it finally came out, and it is double stacked, like the yeah on yeah, just on half like the s 20 or no, the s10 wait, no 10 the like the s20 yeah um yeah. So now we can pull out the cameras just got to do some ribbon cables here, um all right. So I'm going to read some of these answers.

Um. This is a great one um. So someone wrote because in this parallel world the Thanos snapped the finger and all the humans except Samsung employees after 10 years of hard work, finally built a time machine and save to solve, maybe um. That is a good one. That's really creative, I'm a fan of that.

So I like that one. What other answers are there, because the numbers 11 through 19 are temporarily banned due to account sharing and or other misconduct? The suspension will be lifted once the numbers have had an opportunity to reflect on their conduct. These are way more creative than I thought they would be yeah. They are Samsung named it note 20, because we are in 2020. , solid, solid.

That's nice lightweight, okay, um cameras are out, I'm going to leave them all in their little bracket here, because I have the cameras from the s10 ultra over here that we already tore down, and then I don't have to do it. So this is the 108 megapixel sensor. As you can see, it is like very large. Well, I wish I had one to compare it to. I should have grabbed the iPhone sensor, but trust me.

It's big, and it's pretty cool got a giant lens here and then the ultrawide is just like a normal little guy here, and we already talked about the zoom yeah. Those are the cameras and, let's see, if there's anything interesting on the board, we'll take these shields off for our step-by-step teardown, so make sure to stay tuned for that. If you are curious, what's under them mostly looks like we have standard stuff on here. I don't see anything too exciting, but we'll see under those shields. Sorry, I just mystic bronze because it has mystic powers like the power rangers, and this totally looks like a power rangers color, this mystic bronze.

Oh sorry, that was probably really loud. I'm sorry everyone uh, okay! It really does look like power rangers color, though I thought when we took apart the Galaxy Z flip. It was like that gorgeous purple and I thought that that would be the phone for hit girl. If anyone watched us all right now, I'm taking out this little lower board, which is basically just like a controller for the USB port of the vibration motor and there's a microphone on here. So we're kind of getting down to the bare bones.

Here we have the battery which how long we've been going now. Do we have time for battery removal, or should we just leave it rest leave it in place? I think we'll just wrap it like. We still want to leave some mysteries for the tear down. We really just wanted to give you guys a first look um. If you want to see anything else, drop it in the chat, and we can definitely do it taking out the battery would require.

I always use alcohol yeah. I would use alcohol too, and alcohol solves everything it wouldn't be terrible like we could do it for sure. If you guys want to see it, but if it's not fun yeah. I um here's a close-up of the battery yeah. It is 4 500 William hours well, typical capacity, so they didn't lie.

They never really do so, but yeah all. Also in here we have this square vibration, motor which Samsung has been using for a couple of years now, and it gives surprisingly good haptic feedback still lacking compared to the iPhone's huge tactic engine, but it does. It does a good job and oh yeah, and then we have the front-facing camera up here, which uh do you want to talk about ham cam? That was like the one thing I walked away from deter bone at the verge his review. He said that the selfie cam did a lot of over smoothing, and he compared it to a ham, and he took a lot of pictures of himself and likened himself to a ham, and I just it really did make his skin look like a ham. You go watch his review.

If you haven't already it's like it's crazy what the front-facing camera does and he turned off all the skin smoothing settings. So it's just something that they have baked into the camera app. Hopefully I mean they definitely can fix it with a firmware update, we'll see if they end up doing that. But someone asked why they removed the pull tabs on the battery. I didn't were there ever pull tabs on.

I don't I don't think Samsung has ever used pull tabs. We would love it if they did like it would be great, but they just kind of slap it in there with a ton of adhesive like even OnePlus. They also use adhesive, but usually they have like a jacket on the battery that you can pull it from, and they use less adhesive. So it's a little less offensive of a procedure, but I mean yeah Samsung is just about as bad as they come. When it comes to battery removal.

I have like half the people in the chat saying: remove the battery and half the people saying we're boring. So what is it internet? I don't know what you want. I mean I if they think we're boring, I get it. You know, that's fine! I think I'm boring too. I'm not going to get delightful um.

One other thing that we said we would talk about is the cooling right here. You can see the thermal pad and there might be like some, I'm sure, there's copper under here. Let me see if I can scratch it away. Don't have anything that sharp, oh tweezers, make sure we're focusing here. Some people say to put it back together: oh yeah, it's going to say we can put it back together, and now we're just getting remove the battery feel free to do what you guys want ooh.

I, like you, digital life, oh, thanks dude, so this is probably graphite. It's, actually. I don't see. Copper under here, there's probably copper like way under it, but this is an interesting cooling solution. Like you said, Samsung has been extremely careful about cooling.

Ever since the note 7 debacles, the other thing we wanted to look for was ultra-wide band antennas, and we actually couldn't really find those on the iPhone until we got x-rays of them, and we will have x-rays of both of these phones. The note 20 ultra and the note 20 for step-by-step tear down so come back for that we can look through the x-rays, and we'll probably find ultrawide band antennas there. I think all right now, everyone is saying: remove the battery yo video team. Should we remove the battery all right I'll bust out the alcohol? Can I have some? No, if you want to go blind, I think isopropyl will make you go blind or something like that. It's definitely not good to all right Steven john, you said bruh notice me, so I'm giving you a shout-out all right, so Taylor is going to remove the battery okay.

Why don't you tell us about your recent iPad repair? I'm curious to hear that story. I feel, like I haven't heard all of it. If you want to you, don't have to you, could save it for the video it doesn't have a happy ending. Someone in the audience is actively trying to help me fix my iPad, shout out to that person shout out to Moses. Thank you very much, um yeah.

So I am a novice repair person. I before I started working at fixity I worked for. I did marketing at a software company, so I had zero technical skills um, and so we thought it would be fun to have me. Try like some of the hardest repairs, and so I did the swapped out a battery in a retina MacBook Pro. If you watched that video half of it is me swearing props to my video team for all the bleeping that they had to do, that's kind of why I'm not doing tear downs live right now because you probably hear a lot more swearing, um, but connectors they're really hard, and you need to be really delicate and so a lot of times in devices they'll actually have a black piece of tape over a connector, and it actually looks like the ribbon cable itself.

And so that's what happened. Taylor I pulled up on the tape and bad things happened, and we will have a video soon. I can't wait, but if you did miss my MacBook battery video um, it's pretty wild. How glued down batteries are to modern devices. I have swapped the battery in my 2012 MacBook Pro, and it took five minutes and I think the 2015 retina MacBook Pro battery replacement just getting to the battery, took like 30 minutes, and then it was like 30 more minutes of prying um.

But after I had my iPad fail, I actually reached out to a few different uh, fixer friends, Louis Grossman. Being one of them- and he super cheered me up- I was feeling really, really bad, so shout out to Lewis he kind of uh turned my day around and reminded me that these things happen in repair, and then he sent me a video of when a MacBook battery blew up in his shop. So um really appreciate that yeah. I really can't believe that apple is still gluing down their MacBook batteries like yeah. They make a lot of questionable decisions in their mac books, but like just straight up gluing down the batteries when there's so much space, I mean they're thin you're right, they are thin but like I'm, I'm using this hp laptop, which is equally thin and just the battery is screwed in place.

Bam, bam. Bam. You take out a couple screws. You got a battery replacement. I would like to know why they don't have so iPhones are great because they have the adhesive pull tabs on the battery, which I have like.

Finally, I'm not going to say mastered it, but I've only like successfully gotten them out, uh, probably like two or three times uh, but would it be possible for them to put that in a laptop battery yeah totally? They actually already did it in the MacBook Air. Oh, they did yeah. The latest MacBook airs have adhesive pull tabs totally missed that teardown it was. It was the blog one that I did um but yeah they totally do it or they have done it for the MacBook Air, and they just don't care about the MacBook Pro. Apparently, all right.

So to get this battery out, I dumped a bunch of isopropyl alcohol under there, and then I'm using the suction cup to pull it up, and it's finally coming out. You can see some nice adhesive there that's gross, and now it's dripping with isopropyl alcohol, but as requested we're doing it, here's the battery, that's 4500 William hours or 17.46 watt hours. It's a lot of battery disgusting, adhesive uh one thing: oh I'm going to botch names! I was listening to CNET. I believe her name's Jessica, sorry Jessica. If you see this uh she's talking about like a lot of the like, this is an it's a weird time to get this phone.

So this is like you get all the specs. You get the fancy s pen with the gestures you get like all of this battery life, but where are we going like? We are at home and so a lot of the features that you would normally use this for um, probably not going to use it because you can plug your phone in at any time, because most of us are home. We're not like throwing the display of our phone up onto a screen in any fancy way because yeah we're at home- and so you know a lot of reviewers have recommended like if you are absolutely going to buy this phone. Like maybe wait, um wait till we get some deals and if you have a phone, that's working fine, I would just say: wait because e-waste is horrible. Yeah, and really Samsung phones go on sale like the week after they're released, so there's a good chance.

This will be on sale soon. I think, especially if you're going for the vanilla note 20, that that phone is fascinating, and we said we would talk about it later, uh, and now it's later. I think that all smartphones should use plastic backs, like the note 20 does like that is hot. That is so much better than the glass it's its lighter. It doesn't break when you drop if it's easier to take off and put back it doesn't scratch like glass, it only costs.

You know a dollar to replace instead of a hundred dollars. I mean I know it's a hot take, but I can defend it another hill. I will die on. That's you, Taylor's like putting his life up for many hills today on this live stream. So under the battery, I just peeled back this little tape here and this is that fingerprint sensor that's under the display.

So that's pretty cool this. I don't know what this is. This might be an ultrawide band antenna yeah. The team is actually really excited to geek out on all the ultra-wideband technology. So we are researching that as we speak, um, and we'll have lots more.

I hope we'll have lots more to say about it. I hope so too yeah or if you have anything uh tell us like tell us what you know about these things. Oh, no! This is a thermal pad fingerprint sensor. Maybe no fingerprint sensor is down here. All right, going to go for some more questions, maybe parade.

I fix it for getting the battery out batteries uh for everyone saying this is taking Taylor a while. If you guys really want me to do a teardown, I would take twice as long, and I would swear twice as much or 10 times as much, so I think you're doing a great job plus we're just we're. I mean hanging out you guys in a hurry, yeah we're you got to go uh. Someone asked how long until they slaughter the battery in place. Dear everything, I never hope yeah seriously um, it's funny to think about.

So the note 5 was the first year yeah. The note 5 was the first year that the battery wasn't user removable, and then they skipped the note.6 and then the note 7 debacles happened and just think how much easier that recall would have been if you could have popped the battery out um. Instead, it all exploded, yeah seriously, uh someone wants to see the battery connection if you're not the battery connection like the connector. I guess this is the connector, and it goes right here on the motherboard. We are basically at the bottom of the barrel here.

If you guys want to see anything else, let us know in the chat, but I think we might be ready to call it yeah. I don't have much else to say: I'm going to put everything in a nice pretty arrangement here, for you guys to see and again, if you're tuning in late, we have a giveaway OK will mention in a second and uh. We just finished here. This video will be live on our channel once we're done, so you can watch it from the beginning then. But if everyone in the comments is telling us that it's really boring, so maybe you won't want to.

I don't know we got some fans in there. We have. We got some love. Um will we reassemble it? Yes, um we're not going to reassemble it now, because we're going to do some shots and some analysis. First, I want to mention the giveaway one more time we are giving away a pair of galaxy beans.

The way to enter is Samsung went from the note 10 to the note 20, and I want to know why. But I want to know why, in your words, so give me your most creative funny. Whatever you want answer into the chat, and I will pick my favorite answer and I will put it in the teardown I'll announce the teardown I'll, announce the winner and the teardown that we're going to do later this week or early next week, so stay tuned for that and if you're watching this video after we are not when we are not live after it's on the channel uh you can still. You should be able to comment in just the regular comments section so put your answer there, and we will still consider you for the giveaway, yeah and yeah we're doing all sorts of teardowns. So if you missed it last week, we did like a combined x-ray teardown of the apple's new iMac that kind of just took us all by surprise.

We also did the galaxy watch 3 and the Samsung beans, and then we also will be taking maybe a look at the Pixel 3a if you're excited dang it um. If you're excited about the Pixel 4a uh go ahead and drop it in the chat. I want to know if you're excited about that phone yeah, that one's cool, because it has a plastic back which makes it instantly cool but yeah. I didn't know Taylor felt so strongly about plastic they're. So much better.

So the vanilla note 20 is getting a lot of crap for being a thousand dollars with having a glass dick back yeah. I definitely I'm sorry to interrupt you. No, it's just people associate premium with like having the glass, so I think that this vanilla note 20 is not worth a thousand dollars. That's why I was saying like it'll, go on sale soon, and then it'll be more worth it. But uh I mean even this glass or this plastic doesn't feel terrible.

People are crazy. You don't need glass on your phone like why. Why do you want more glass on your phone? It's just going to break. Its true make it plastic. This looks great shout out to Samsung uh.

Well, cool. I think. That's all we got guys if you want us to do this again. Let us know, and we will sign up yeah thanks for tuning in bye, see you guys. Does the matte finish feel more slippery? A lot of people are saying uh, I think glass, yes, plastic! No, can you tell like that? It has more fingerprints on it compared to the plastic or the glass uh both of them.

I guess neither of them pick up fingerprints that easily. I always think about like coding on everything after we just did our like. Are we live? We're half life if you're still here, thanks for staying so late, you.

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