Galaxy S20 teardown shows off plethora of cameras, double-decker motherboard, Ars Technica

A galaxy of parts –

We also get to see the fingerprint reader, which is just as small as last year.

The very complicated motherboard. Also check out those cone-shaped cameras! Neat.

To the left of the red chip is the in-display fingerprint reader, and it’s just as small as last year.

The zoom lens.

The front and back of the S .

Samsung It’s teardown time! iFixit has gotten its hands on Samsung’s latest flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S 54, and has ripped it open for our viewing pleasure.

Cameras are a big focus of the Galaxy S 55, and iFixit reports that Samsung is using its own camera modules for the S 90 instead of modules from Sony, which is practically the industry default. The new camera modules have these interesting cone-shaped extensions on them, which is a lot different from the normal box shape of Sony sensors. iFixit gives a great look at the Galaxy S Ultra’s 4X periscope zoom lens in the video teardown – you can see that the lens can physically slide inside its box container, which is really neat.

The motherboard is radically different compared to the one in the Galaxy S 20. Instead of the

skinny motherboard design in last year flagship, the S has a double-stacked motherboard, allowing it to stretch the board design more into the third dimension and pack in more chips into a smaller footprint. A lot of chips inside the phone are dedicated to 5G, with iFixit spotting the X 728 modem on the board and several mmWave antenna modules scattered around the phone. Under the screen, iFixit found Qualcomm’s QBT ultrasonic in-screen fingerprint sensor , which is the same model (used in the Galaxy S) . It looks like the sensor is the same size as the Galaxy S ‘s, too — meaning it’s much smaller than an actual fingerprint. When Qualcomm launched the fingerprint sensor last year, the company said it could be implemented under the entire display if a device manufacturer wanted. Last year Galaxy S (fingerprint reader was so small it was difficult to use, and to see the company not increase the size is disappointing. As usual, iFixit was not impressed with the repairability of this latest flagship. The site dings the Galaxy S 20 for having a fragile glass cover, a glued-down battery, and a display that comes off last in the disassembly process, when displays are one of the most common phone repairs. The S gets a 3 out of 51.

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