Samsung S20 Ultra 5G Teardown! - Is the 5G even real?!

Today we are going to take apart the galaxy s2000, we will try to see what the crazy space zoom camera looks like from the inside. This video is sponsored by myself. I wouldn't ask if I would like to sponsor a video and I thought, Hey, do you want to sponsor a video? And then I said: Yes, I want it. Here we are with the new line of detachable skins, the skins that allow you to see all the magic inside your phone without having to take it apart. Think to yourself, Hey Jerry, isn't this just a sticker?

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ultra

has under the hood in three dimensions instead of just two, let's get started, does 5g exist?

Well, yes, but also, we'll learn more about this as we delve into the new s20

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5g, the latest and greatest from Samsung. This time the front screen is flat, but the back panel remains as curved as ever. I can take my heat gun. and a razor blade and cut between the glass panel and the metal frame of the phone now only for educational purposes and definitely not by accident. I'm going to show what happens if you bend the corner with too much pressure using a hot plate or vacuum separator tool. It would probably make this extraction a little easier.

Fortunately, replacement rear glass panels usually cost around twenty or thirty dollars, so it's no big deal if it cracks. I'll keep the phone just too warm to touch so the waterproofing adhesive stays soft under the glass. and finally, after many gentle cuts, the back panel can be separated from the phone. You can see the holes to be the camera lens. Here the only connection that is on the back of the glass panel is actually for the small microphone that is here between the The flash and the top camera have four small circular contact pads that allow the microphone to communicate with the body of the s20 ultra.

Speaking of which, the body of the s20 ultra has a wireless charging pad installed. You can charge it wirelessly at 15 watts and reverse wireless charging. other nine watt devices, cool little trick. I'll remove the five screws surrounding the top silver plate that covers all the ribbon cable connectors. I'll put it aside next to the screws I removed so I can keep everything organized. then I'll disconnect the battery with my plastic pry tool, it just fits together like a little Lego. I can uncover the rest of the motherboard by removing four more Phillips head screws holding the top antenna plastics on.

Notice that there is a rectangular void in the plastic. There's something missing here, but I'll come back to that in just a second. There are five screws holding the bottom speaker assembly. The plastic of the speaker has the normal contact pads for communication and a small red sticker that covers the beads inside the speaker housing. Remember that these little ones help make the speaker sound larger than it

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ly is by causing the bug to move around the balls inside the case. It's a cute little piece of technology that goes all the way to the top of the phone.

I will take out the SIM and SD card tray. this type can handle a terabyte of additional storage before reaching the cameras. There are a few more things I need to get out first of all these extension ribbons that connect the motherboard to the charging port board. Each end disconnects like a little Lego and then I can set up. On one side, the charging port plate has three screws holding it in place. Once removed, the entire plate can be detached from the phone. This time it's replaceable, which is nice and pretty simple to remove. Samsung also included some extra red rubber under the charging port and also down here at the bottom of the phone is the little square vibrating motor now for the cameras Samsung has done some new things this time with the cameras, they are all still connected inside the same metal casing and to remove them, the entire motherboard must be separated from the frame.

It's a dual stack motherboard, just like we've seen inside the iPhone and Note 10 before and it's super thick, there's no thermal paste on the back. This time, which is strange, we normally see that on high-end flagships each of the camera units has its own Lego style connector, three of them are connected to the back of the motherboard and then the camera depth is the only one that is connected to the front. On the side, the top camera is a 12-megapixel ultra-wide-angle camera without OIS, the middle camera is the 108-megapixel main camera that has optical image stabilization.

We have the depth camera here on the side without OIS and then the periscope 100 times the space. zoom camera down here, which OAS supposedly has with its 10X hybrid zoom, now it's time to get into the periscope camera because it looks like a fun activity. All cameras are permanently built together with a surrounding metal frame so that the phone can seamlessly transition between the four different sensors without them looking out of place or being in a different position, obviously the cameras are not meant to be separated, but with enough aggressive coaxing I can get that 100x space zoom camera to fall out of the frame, which starts to show us some very interesting things.

We first saw this technology inside the p30 pro a year ago, but Samsung has taken the periscope zoom hardware to the next level. Notice these copper coils. I'll come back to them in a second this time on Samsung. It has a mechanical zoom inside that can physically move like a professional DSLR lens. At the bottom end of the camera we have the sensor that is located perpendicular to the back of the phone. This is a 48 megapixel sensor and you can see that in any light it has. What shines through the lens bounces at a 90 degree angle.

This is how the sensor sees things outside the phone like a periscope on a submarine. You'll also notice that the prism or light-reflecting portion is optically stabilized with electromagnetic copper. The coils at the bottom and the two circular coils next to them control the stabilization of the prism. The other two coils on this side control the movement of the center lens back and forth. This chamber has five electromagnets inside, which is kind of amazing. We've come a long way in just one a year, technology moves super fast, don't get me wrong, it's a fantastic piece of hardware, but I feel like the 100x space zoom commercials Samsung gave us promoting this are very different. to the actual zoom. on the images we get from the camera, so definitely watch some videos about the

real

quality of the camera before believing the hype.

It is better to have realistic expectations. Samsung's advertising is not as realistic as it used to be. The front camera is glued. For some reason, this is a 40-megapixel selfie camera without optical image stabilization and then again, as we saw on the Note 10 plus, we have the top stereo speaker here placed a little further inside the foam body instead. from at the top. Sound from the speaker passes through this channel before exiting through the small illuminated earpiece on top. It was interesting to see that there was no thermal paste or foam on the back of the motherboard,

even

on the Note 10 and Galaxy S 10.

There was foam on the back of the motherboard to dissipate heat. We'll have to see if there are any thermal issues with this phone. As time goes by, there is a vapor chamber cooling system inside. Once I take it out, I can open it to see the liquid. inside the actual chamber and we can definitely see the liquid droplets before they evaporate. I'm going to open it up a little bit more so we can see how these dots of liquid disappear into the vapor chamber. The processor is located on one side and is vaporized with heat in the The liquid which is then directed to the opposite towards the chamber is cooled and returned through the center through a sweet capillary action of these strands of copper wire.

It's also a pretty interesting technology, but it's still pretty strange that there isn't a stronger thermal connection between them. motherboard and copper normally on premium flag boats like this we see something that connects the two. One thing that is really important to remember, whether you are buying cars, computers or cell phones, is the price-performance ratio; you can get 90% of the performance at s

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ty percent of the price by just getting a phone that was released a few months ago and getting that last 10% of top performance like on this s20 ultra is very expensive although the part that increased the price the most of this phone is probably 5g.

We'll talk about that more in a second first, let's take out this battery. Samsung is known for permanently gluing its batteries in place. There's enough glue here to stick an elephant to the ceiling and this s20 is actually a little worse than usual. The glue is so strong that it bent my metal lever at a 90 degree angle, which is pretty dangerous, but don't worry, Samsung. The problem with gluten batteries is that it makes the phone very difficult and dangerous to repair and also recycle. end of its useful life, which for phones is relatively short, if I accidentally puncture the surface of this battery, it could start to catch fire.

I can use a little alcohol to soften the adhesive under the battery, but most smart smartphone manufacturers just use easy pull tabs for the battery. I will heat up the adhesive a little bit I will use my suction cup which also damages the battery but finally we can see some movement and this is quite excessive the battery is held in place with a web of slime it is rated at five thousand milliamps which is quite powerful, We finally see for the first time the location of the ultrasonic fingerprint scanner under the screen. You can see the outline of the rectangle under the glass that reads your fingerprint through the AMOLED display layer, since the LED pixels have no backlight behind them.

The screen is semi-transparent, once again cutting-edge technology at a higher price, although one of the most expensive things inside this phone is the 5G, if you remember, the Note 10 plus 5G version was $200 more than the normal one. note 10 plus and with the S 20 line, Samsung has made update 5 mandatory and is just billing everyone more for it. Don't get me wrong, 5g will be really cool in a few years, but it's not here yet, even Samsung knows that. The particular device I've been taking apart is the Korean version of the S 20 ultra 5g and Samsung didn't even include the 5g millimeter antennas inside this 5g phone because Korea doesn't have the millimeter wave 5g infrastructure that you can see. the antennas I'm talking about are promoted in Samsung's own promotional video and here I fix the

teardown

of a US model and you can see the 5g clearly written on my box but Samsung can still get away with not including the antennas because the network does not exist in Korea, millimeter wave 5g technology does not exist in the US either, and is currently only found in a few major cities and only covers a few blocks where it is installed.

There are two types of 5g low band 5g that major carriers are currently rolling out and it is indeed faster than 4G but the incredible millimeter wave speeds will never leave major cities and that's even if it ever gets install, it's not here yet. Bottom line, we should thank everyone who is buying this phone now because they are paying that premium tax and subsidizing millimeter wave 5g for the rest of us in the future, they are early adopters even though no one can use it by buying a 5g phone which does not come with 5g hardware.

It has to be bad news if you are in Korea, phone companies and operators talk about 5G as if it were the next giant leap for humanity and that it is already here everywhere, but in reality it is not the only giant leap that is being made. It's hitting your wallet. at least for 2020 and probably 2021 we'll see what happens after turning on the phone everything works except the camera which we destroyed it seems like when one camera breaks they all stop working anyway it's been a fun phone to take apart what Do you personally think about this whole 5g situation?

I'll probably wait a few more years until the 5g infrastructure is in place.more widespread. The mid-band 5g and millimeter wave 5g are the ones we should pay attention to, they will have the largest size. The improvements over 4G are different though, so let me know what you think in the comments if you like seeing the inside of the technology without the risk of your own stuff showing up, there's always the

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