Samsung Galaxy S10 teardown reveals the ultrasonic FP reader, a beefy heat pipe

05 March 2019
The Galaxy S10 doesn't flex or bend, but it may be more difficult to repair than the S9. 

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If i have to go through this much trouble and expense to get this phone repaired then i really don't see the sense in having it in the first place.

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    • 07 Mar 2019

    Anonymous, 06 Mar 2019You can have more performance with the same power draw if i... moreI'm not sure having 15% more perf for same drain allow to say you have same perf for 15% lesser drain, if the chip was built to deliver more perf by being the same size rather than having the same top perf by being smaller. But I Don't have enought knowledge about chip building, just enought to know that it's rarely that easy.
    So the question is to know if it's better to have a hight end chip of this gen, or if a mid end chip will have the same perf than last year top chips but with far less energy drain.

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      • 07 Mar 2019

      Anonymous, 06 Mar 2019Has it taken you that long to work out out.. it’s all marke... moreIt was half a rhetorical question, since there was a big fuss about how it was a shame Nokia 9 comes with S845 making it a "shit" phone when in fact SD855 doesn't add anything if a mere 10% perf on devices where a really few situations need raw power (I don't see a lot of people doing heavy gaming/CAD on their phone).
      In fact, I was expecting a big energy saving gain with a smaller chip, since the praises I've seen on the comments here. But it is true I didn't know we already had 10nm chips and believed, until I checked, SD845 was 14nm like last gen computer chip. So of course the gain between SD845 and 855 is not that big, in fact, not enought to discredit a phone and comments were just geek-thing following the good ol' marketing "have the lattest thing, even if you don't need it, it's better since numbers are highter!". Proof is we still need a big dissipator to keep it cool enought to not have the chip throttling.

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        • Anonymous
        • LX7
        • 07 Mar 2019

        mikey, 06 Mar 2019large heat pipe,scratches=imperfect 10 generations laterGalaxy S100 will be bullet proof, promise. And you want a small heat pipe?

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          • Anonymous
          • npX
          • 07 Mar 2019

          THERE IS NO PIPE !
          just a section with bends.

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            • mikey
            • 7sj
            • 06 Mar 2019

            large heat pipe,scratches=imperfect 10 generations later

              I was considering to buy a Samsung after years, but this video changed my mind. Easy Repairing was One of my expectations.

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                • Anonymous
                • Kgw
                • 06 Mar 2019

                Hildr, 06 Mar 2019Shouldn't the 7/8nm engraving be more energy efficient than... moreYou can have more performance with the same power draw if it is more efficient.

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                  • Anonymous
                  • 39x
                  • 06 Mar 2019

                  Hildr, 06 Mar 2019Shouldn't the 7/8nm engraving be more energy efficient than... moreHas it taken you that long to work out out.. it’s all marketing , it’s more energy effienient , doesn’t state if this is just doing normal tasks or multi tasking it’s a bit like when intel releases processors and say it’s 15% faster than the previous genration ... when they are comparing the worst I7 processor for the 7th gen vs the best 8th gen I7 in a computer. Also efficient can be based on how much heat is lost the hotter an item the less efficient so by keeping it cooler over long periods of use it’s technical more efficient as sad as that is,
                  as the chip is keeper cooler it won’t get as hot as such leds wasted energy to heat.. hope this makes sense..

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                    • Hildr
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                    • 06 Mar 2019

                    Shouldn't the 7/8nm engraving be more energy efficient than 10? Why this massive heatpipe then? And then, why the hype about this SD855, only better raw perf?

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                      • Anonymous
                      • xHb
                      • 06 Mar 2019

                      AnonD-771260, 06 Mar 2019Why would you care about repairs? Are you doing them by yourself?hard to repair = more expensive to repair

                        AnonD-771260, 06 Mar 2019Why would you care about repairs? Are you doing them by yourself?No, but the irreplaceable nature of some parts of this phone means you need to pay extra for repairs

                          AnonD-558092, 06 Mar 2019Yeah. The motherboard will cost you 300USD to buy, since it... moreFreaking agreed. You took away the removable battery, at least make it easier to repair

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                            • 06 Mar 2019

                            Walter C. Dornez, 06 Mar 2019It pisses me off how hard this is to repair. A company like... moreWhy would you care about repairs? Are you doing them by yourself?

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                              • 06 Mar 2019

                              It looks like the USB C port is part of the motherboard (look at the pins and green substrate that matches the board at 3:32) Even if the metal shroud gets dislodged, it may still work and looks more durable.

                                Nice giant copper but battery still sticking inside the battery room, Samsung never find a better solution here.

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                                  • 06 Mar 2019

                                  Walter C. Dornez, 06 Mar 2019It pisses me off how hard this is to repair. A company like... moreYeah. The motherboard will cost you 300USD to buy, since it has all the expensive stuff except for the screen. UFS storage, RAM, SoC, modem, a bunch of sensors and more.

                                  Sticking the USB port there is not cool. Now then, add also the battery, which easily costs 50$ to buy alone. Though we have here a law that protects customers against planned obsolescence. Yay to that, no OEM can get around this! You guys need such a law.

                                    It pisses me off how hard this is to repair. A company like Samsung shouldn't be doing Apple things

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                                      • 39x
                                      • 06 Mar 2019

                                      Always interesting to watch. I wouldn't want to leave my phone at his house :)

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                                        • Jwu
                                        • 06 Mar 2019

                                        you cant replace the usb-c port and the fingerprint module anymore, and the display if you want to replace it, it s pretty difficult, nearly impossible to replace !! Planned obsolescence at its finest #ShameOnYouShamesung