Galaxy A80 Flippy Camera Teardown! - How does it work?!

The Samsung Galaxy AAT is one of the most designed smartphones we've come across this year, with a motorized

camera

that extends up and rotates to face the front. It's quite interesting. Today we are going to take everything apart and see how. everything

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s from the inside let's start if you remember during my durability test this phone obviously survived the back panel next to the

camera

seems to have started to peel away from the phone a little bit so that's where we'll start today lifting it up. My big suction cup and cut the very strong adhesive under the glass.

One downside to having a motor inside the phone with a large opening for the camera bump is that the phone is not waterproof, but Samsung went ahead and still made this adhesive back super. strong anyway, eventually with enough persuasion the glass can be lifted exposing some rather attractive looking copper colored internals and the seat pad looks quite impressive. Thumbs up for that, if the phone still

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s when you put it back together, maybe we'll clarify it further. In this build I'll turn on the phone very quickly so we can see the internal hardware in action. When I press the camera button on the screen, we can see the camera lift up and out of the phone with the longest stepper motor shaft we've ever seen.

I've seen that the black and pink plastic still hides most of the hardware, but we're getting there. The rear black plastics are held in place with twelve regular Phillips head screws. There are actually quite a few screws here, so I'll keep everything organized. my desk, once the screws are removed the back plastics can be detached from the phone, the NFC pad is the same copper color that we saw on the back of the pixel for Excel this time, although this time it is attached to the plastics and not to the rear glass. I would disconnect the battery at this point, but this autopsy will be done live.

We want to keep the phone going up and down a few more times while we figure out how it works. The bottom subwoofer comes out next. There are no foam balls inside this type. In fact, it looks like the rear speaker is simply placed inside the plastic casing and not built outside of the plastic casing, a reminder that this phone is only five hundred dollars on Amazon right now, so some were probably cut out. corners to save pennies here. and especially when so much work was done on the camera motor, after heating the plastic area under the triple camera setup, I was able to peel it off and reveal more pink anodized aluminum, just like here under the top plastic section around the camera, more pink. anodized metal now we can see a little more of what is happening, the entire engine is visible at this point and we can see all the magic that happens inside the AAT, it is happening with just one engine going up and spinning, we will have to dig deeper to understand it .

I'll remove the plastic screw protectors and unscrew the two screws on the top of the motor shaft that hold the motor to the top of the phone along with four more screws that hold the top of the phone to the side rails. There is a metal plate at the base of these side rails that clips onto the small lips to stop the upward movement and begin the pan movement of the camera. We'll see more in just a second. However, the camera still cannot be removed from the phone as it is attached to the bottom of the motherboard, I will remove the five Phillips head screws holding the motherboard to the frame and then disconnect the small stepper motor connector along with the huge gigantic cable that runs down to the charging port like a big little Lego once everything is unplugged the entire motherboard and camera unit can slide up and off the guide rails and away from the phone .

I don't think we've ever had a phone come apart and have chunks as big as this before it looks great inside. A closer look at the stepper motor now has a threaded shaft that can raise and lower the center part that holds the top also has a smooth guide shaft on the right that keeps the piece level while raising and lowering these large rails. metal on The Cider would probably help keep both hats in place while I attempted my Ben test. There is also a coin-style vibrator motor and a small thermal foam pad under the motherboard before you start removing the Philippi part of the camera.

Let's remove it. the charging port has three flat cables and a screw and then everything can be detached, oh one second and then everything can be detached from the phone. This little guy has a USBC charger that can fast charge at 18 watts along with the built-in SIM card tray here under the charging port are two more screws that hold the fingerprint scanner under the display. This is a small optician. You can see the small camera lens taking a photo of your finger through the OLED pixels. screen now I normally like to remove the back of smartphones, but Samsung has once again made this impossible.

Removing the battery is a death sentence for the phone, as any curvature when removing it will cause the internal layers of the battery to touch, causing the battery to short circuit immediately or slowly expand and die in the next few minutes. months, so it is very unfortunate that Samsung

does

not allow these batteries to be recalled, especially since this number here is the period of environmentally friendly use, which means five is the number of years. You have it before the chemicals and battery start leaking, which will be exciting for your wallet. Samsung should make their permanent batteries easier to remove.

I will unplug each of the camera's ribbon cables at the back of the motherboard and then I will heat up and remove the last layer of pink plastic around the front of the camera, this exposes eight more Phillips head screws once I attach them. has removed. I can remove the two black plastic protective pieces and then we can get our first look at the camera hardware. As this top part of the phone moves, we can see the camera start to rotate like some kind of roast chicken. This rotation only occurs at peak extension. You can see that the flat camera cables are actually also rotating around the axes with the The camera tightens more when the camera faces the front of the phone and loosens when the camera is in its normal position facing the back, all This action is so that the higher quality camera can be used on both the front and the back of the phone. phone, I will unclip each of the axis ii camera connectors, remove four more screws and I can separate the camera skeleton from the metal body.

This gives us a better view of the gears that take the force up at the top of the stepper motor lifter. and make the transition to the force of roast chicken for the pop-up camera, which gets that rather nifty swivel movement - definitely more complicated than the dual screen phone that was taken apart a while ago, but it's still very interesting to see the camera in motion. I hope you did. I still haven't gotten bored of looking at screws because we have four more left. Samsung changed things up a bit with a three-point screw instead of a Phillips head.

My tool kit comes with all kinds of bits, although I'll link it in the video. description once the screws on both sides are disassembled the pink chicken cannot be disassembled showing us the three different cameras and the Galaxy AAT the 8 megapixel ultra white camera on the left 48 megapixel main camera in the center and a depth camera 3d on the right side, next to the LED flash, neither of which has optical image stabilization, this $500 phone has enough futuristic engineering inside that makes it look like it belongs in a Star Wars movie. It's pretty amazing what you can do with the limited space inside. of a cell phone body, it takes super smart people to think about these things, putting the phone back together is pretty easy.

I'm just kidding, there are like 40-something screws in here, so it's more like a nightmare, but at least we have Look at all the things we came here for. I'll make sure the long stepper motor is secured in the camera unit and that everything along the side rails is clamped and screwed down. Staying organized is really the key to working with all of these little screws and components. I sneeze and it will all be over. I'll secure the charging port in place with the speaker on top and once the battery is connected I can turn the phone back on to see if the motor is set up correctly and working.

I still want to see what a clearer version of the AAT would look like and here we go, it definitely still works. You already know how transparent phones work from my other videos, so I won't bore you with the details. This AAT is one of those colored laminated glass pieces. where the color comes off in large chunks, this may look easy on camera, but as the laminate is not designed to come off the glass, it is quite difficult and requires quite a bit of force. Remember that if you ever try to do it yourself it will be very difficult.

The laminate also holds the glass together if it ever cracks, so my Clair phones are weaker than the original, of course, if Samsung did this at the factory, They could just add a clear laminate and it would finally be fine after removing all the color curves from the glass. I can put it in its place and once again I totally believe that Samsung should make clear versions of this phone with all moving parts and even a copper NFC coil. I think the Galaxy AAT is currently the favorite for having the best looking phone. Smartphones of the year, let me know what you think.

Would you rather have an extravagant motorized camera system on your phone or would you prefer the dual screen method to get rid of the clutter like we saw on the Nubia z20? Let me know in the comments anyway, phones this year, I've been pretty awesome, it has a subscribe button if you don't have a lot of videos yet for the future and you'll be hanging out with me in this scram and Twitter, thanks for watching, I'll see you. around