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Specialists iFixit have put the new flagship Samsung Galaxy S7 a total of three points

Specialists iFixit got the new flagship smartphone Samsung Galaxy S7. Looking ahead, it can be noted that South Korean device can not boast of a high rate of maintainability. To disassemble Galaxy S7, you need to dismantle the back cover, which is tightly glued to the glass panel and closely adjacent to the frame.

Specialists iFixit with regret the declining reparability of Samsung’s devices. So, if Galaxy S4 have earned 8 of 10 points on a scale of maintainability, in the case of Galaxy S5, this figure dropped to 5 points, the Galaxy S6 – 4 points, and the new Samsung Galaxy S7 and is received from iFixit only 3 out of 10 possible points.

In iFixit told that the only way to get inside Galaxy S7 was the removal of its rear glass panel, which in itself can be considered a true feat. But the difficulties don’t end there. The smartphone uses a lot of rubber seals, providing protection from water, and some elements of the smartphone are closely related to each other, which can lead to damage of some components when you try dismantling the other.

For example, due to the fact that the cables were wrapped around the frame of the display, iFixit have any serious problems with dismantling the screen, digitizer, micro-USB port, microphone, and LEDs. To iFixit noted that the replacement of such element, as a USB port can cause damage to the screen. And replace the cracked glass without damaging the display of the smartphone was recognized iFixit virtually impossible.

Having studied the anatomy of the device, iFixit staff found the following components inside: the Qualcomm Snapdragon 820, combined with the chip of RAM 4 GB, flash module KLUBG4G1CE Samsung 32 GB MLC capacity of 32 GB, wireless Wi-Fi sensor Murata KM5D18098, 6-axis sensor accelerometer STMicroelectronics LSM6DS3, NFC controller NXP 67T05, as well as the battery capacity of 3000 mA·h

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The ability to easily replace the battery for a long time was one of the advantages of Korean smartphones. But now Samsung has abandoned this concept. At the same time, unlike the Galaxy S6 edge, to remove the battery Galaxy S7 edge no need to remove the PCB and internal frame parts.

Advantage of the design of Galaxy S7 is called modularity in many components, which enables easy replacement. In addition, in contrast to the model of the Galaxy S5, to replace the main Board now, no need for the dismantling of the display.

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