In a teardown published Tuesday, iFixit’s crew explains how difficult it is to separate the Essential Phone’s glass display. In sequence to get the job done, iFixit had to freeze it applying Super Cold Spray, an aerosol splash intended to cool electronics down to -60 degrees Fahrenheit.
“Normally when dispensing with an unknown/stubborn adhesive, we’ll each try a solution or heat it to soften it and get it easier to separate,” a spokesperson of iFixit told News in an email. “In the event of the Essential Phone, we ought to have zero gain with heat and we couldn’t clear up a gap large enough to try any solution. But getting it really cold makes the adhesive fragile and causes the elements to contract a bit, which causes it easier to break up. We didn’t have to cool the whole phone, but we did hold to ice the surface down with a splash refrigerant to make any progress on the adhesive.”
One further problem is that the telephone USB-C port is mended directly to the motherboard. That indicates if it breaks a basic problem in other phones you’ll require to shell out for a pricey micro-soldering job or restore the whole motherboard which could cost even more. “We are frustrated,” the iFixit team wrote.
The teardown isn’t all bad: iFixit gave the Essential Phone scores for being modular right now the only standard accessory available is a 360-degree camera. “Modular smartphone methods have yet to take off, but it’s an approach we can appreciate the environmental toll of cutting on a hot new camera module is a lot cheaper than upgrading your whole phone,” iFixit said in the teardown.
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