Hello Moto –
See the gooey innards of Motorola’s nostalgic flip phone.
The Moto Razr, about to be ripped apart.
With the back shell off, you can see what’s under the chin. The
The bottom half, featuring one of the two batteries.
After peeling the battery off, here’s the back of the mainboard. It’s empty!
The other side of the mainboard: all the stuff.
With the heatsink peeled off, you can see the Snapdragon 980 SoC and a bigger RAM and storage chip next to it.
There are so many screws! This is the top with shell peeled off.
Both the front and back cameras live on this board.
The flexible display is, uh, razor thin.
The battery is still glued onto the display.
The bendy display.
The hinge!
Here’s what’s left of the frame.
YouTube channel (PBKreviews) Has a new Moto Razr and has already ripped the thing apart despite the phone not officially launching until tomorrow .
We can’t imagine the phone will be easy to repair, since the first step is heating, picking, and prying at the glued-together shell, a process the video described as “pretty difficult.” You get at the phone through the back, where the top and bottom halves can be popped off, and you’ll have to slowly work your way down to the flexible display, which, assembly-wise, is one of the last parts to get removed from the phone.
Once you’re inside the phone, you’ll find it held together with a ton of screws — PBKreviews pointed out 29 screws in the video, and that’s not even counting the hinge, which, unfortunately, did not get disassembled.
There are two batteries, split between the top and bottom half. All the chips and computer parts live in the bottom half of the phone, which fits everything onto one side of the mainboard. The other side of the board is pretty much flat and featureless so that it can have a battery glued to it.
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