Surprise (not really): The Samsung Galaxy S9+ is very tough to repair

Last updated: March twelfth, 2018 at 10:18 UTC+01:00

When the Galaxy Note 8 came out and the experts over at iFixit decided to open up information technology up, they gave the phone a poor rating of 4 points out of 10 for repairability. At that place'south no South Pen on the Galaxy S9+, only information technology does have much of the aforementioned tech inside as the Note 8 along with some new stuff, such as a camera that can switch between 2 apertures. So it doesn't come up equally a surprise that the S9+ is as tough to repair, and iFixit has given it the same score as the Galaxy Notation 8 post-obit its usual teardown treatment.

Samsung Milky way S9+ gets the teardown treatment

Taking apart the front and rear glass panels on the Milky way S9+ is a unsafe matter, equally they can hands break in the procedure. iFixit knows their fashion around these limitations, all the same, and we go to take a wait at all the hardware laid inside. The Dual Aperture primary photographic camera uses two rotating band-similar blades for switching between f/1.5 and f/two.iv aperture; the secondary rear camera sits just beneath, and both form a single unit sitting on a unmarried PCB. Combined with the iris sensor and forepart-facing camera, the S9+ holds four image sensors in total. The camera assembly also confirms that the Galaxy S9 is codenamed Star, something that was revealed many months earlier the devices were unveiled.

The teardown reveals that the 3,500 mAh bombardment is extremely hard to pry out, as it's held downward with tons of glue. Replacing a broken display is also a fourth dimension-consuming matter, every bit the unabridged phone must be disassembled and "tough adhesive" has to be battled to become through. None of this comes equally a surprise, though, as Samsung's flagships phones pack advanced tech within thin bodies and, since last year, slim bezels around the display, bezels that accept get narrower this twelvemonth and resulted in the Galaxy S9 and S9+ being shorter than their predecessors. Of course, the regular Galaxy S9'due south repairability probably hasn't changed compared to the Galaxy S8, as it misses out on the dual rear camera.

Hit the source link below to get through iFixit's complete Galaxy S9+ teardown process. Don't forget to cheque out our review of the Galaxy S9 and S9+.