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The Asus Zenfone 6.
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You might not remember the name, but you'll definitely remember the flip up camera.
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It's the one that swivels out of the phone like some kind R2D2 accessory.
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We've done the durability test and we know the camera hinge is secure and the motor is
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rated for 100,000 flips.
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But in order to see how it's all put together and learn how it works, we're going to have
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to review it from the inside.
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It's time to teardown the Zenfone 6.
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Let's get started.
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[Intro]
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The Zenfone 6 is built like most other glass and metal smart phones with a large glass
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panel on the back held on with adhesive.
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There's no water resistance rating on the Zenfone 6, so I assumed it would be easier
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to take apart, but I was wrong.
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The adhesive holding the thing together is incredibly goopy and strong, and really hard
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to slice through.
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But I eventually managed to make it happen, and I removed the glass.
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There is one long fingerprint scanner ribbon attaching the back panel to the phone still.
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I'll pop off that fingerprint scanner from the glass and set it off to the side.
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You'll also want to watch out for the fragile Google Assistant ribbon cable that's super
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close to the edge of the phone.
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I went ahead and accidentally on purpose sliced mine in half as an example of what not to
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do and what you should avoid.
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The phone should still work though, even if I did kill the assistant.
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There are 7 Philips head screws holding down the black plastic plate, then I can unsnap
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the fingerprint scanner ribbon and lift off those plastics.
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The NFC coil comes off as well.
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I thought at first this might make a cool looking transparent phone, but then I changed
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my mind, mostly because the majority of the flippy camera is hidden underneath the metal
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camera housing and would not be visible in a clear phone.
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Let's take a closer look.
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I'll unplug the battery from the motherboard for safety since we do want this phone to
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turn on again someday.
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And I'll grab the singular battery pull tab down here at the bottom.
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But then, without even pulling, the battery falls away from the phone basically all on
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it's own.
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That's a pleasant flaw in the assembly process for me.
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Thumbs up for an accidentally too easy battery removal.
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The Zenfone 6 has a massive 5000 milliamp hour battery, which is twice the capacity
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of the iPhone XS.
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You can see the two pretty worthless battery adhesive strips down here pretending to do
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their jobs.
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I'll unclip the two extension ribbons like little Legos, then the metal camera housing
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up here at the top is held in place by 4 more screws.
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Two additional screws already got removed with the back plastics.
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Once those are out, I can gently lift away part of the metal structure from around the
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top of the camera and I can slide the little edge of the bracket out from underneath the
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motherboard.
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Even with that support bracket now gone, the camera is still solidly in position.
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We can see a bit more of the motor and gear as the camera flips back and forth.
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No long stepper motor shaft this time around like we've seen in some of the pop up camera
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phones.
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The Zenfone 6 has just one gear going straight from the motor to the camera.
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The camera control ribbon connector is also very different.
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It's not like the little Lego style this time around.
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I'll remove the one motherboard screw and disconnect the 3 additional ribbon cables,
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and two more wire cables, and then lift the motherboard out and away from the frame, revealing
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yet another motherboard like some kind of high tech Oreo cookie with pink frosting inside.
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There are two different motherboards.
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I'm not sure what the overall goal with that thermal paste is though.
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Each motherboard is heating up and transferring the heat right back into the other motherboard.
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I'm no expert, but using functional motherboards as heat sinks seems counter intuitive.
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There are two more screws holding down that flippy metal camera unit bringing the total
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up to 8 screws.
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Then I'll detach another one of those strange connectors, and after a bit of shimmying and
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unplugging the motor connector, the whole camera contraption can come out of the Zenfone
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6.
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It looks like these odd connectors can be unplugged, but the appear to be a bit more
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fragile and require more finesse.
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Not a huge fan.
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Either way, the camera is out now and we can get a close up look at the attached motor.
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Positioned off to the side, it has a direct connection with the hinge of the camera.
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The brackets that secure the camera require 8 different screws, which I imagine is what
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kept the camera so structurally solid during my durability test.
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Let's take a quick look at the bottom motherboard.
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The dual SIM and SD card slot is on the lower motherboard, with a circular white water damage
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indicator next to the opening.
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The loudspeaker is down at the bottom of the phone and has 6 screws holding it in place
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over the lower electronics.
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And once it's removed we see another water damage indicator on top of the headphone jack.
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There is one screw holding down the charging port board, along with one more large Lego
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style ribbon connector.
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Then the charging port can lift up and out of the phone.
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The USB-C charging port does have a black rubber ring around the tip to help cushion
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the port and provide some water resistance, but as a whole, the phone is not water resistant
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at all.
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The front screen is permanently glued to the metal housing like we've seen in a lot of
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other glass and metal phones.
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It can be replaced, it's just difficult.
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It's time we get everything situated back inside of the Zenfone 6 so I can clean up
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the mess I made with all the internal guts spread out everywhere on my desk.
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Before putting the motherboard sandwich back together, I do need to clip in the strange
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camera cables that Asus is using.
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Still not a huge fan.
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They don't slide in easily like the Lego style ribbons, and it makes the whole repair much
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more difficult.
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Finally, after hopefully getting it clicked in, I can put the Oreo motherboard halves
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together with the strawberry frosting in the middle.
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Then I'll get the black camera cable plugged in, along with all the other more normal Lego
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style connectors for the top motherboard.
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The metal camera bracket gets secured onto the camera housing with it's 4 remaining screws
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holding it in place.
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Then the battery can get set into the phone and plugged in, along with the fingerprint
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scanner and back plastics.
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The fingerprint scanner gets placed directly back into the rear glass panel, and I can
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set the whole thing back down onto the phone.
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And luckily everything still turns on.
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Overall I'm a fan of the Zenfone 6.
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I like seeing phones do new and unique stuff.
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Yeah, the motherboard sandwich is kind of strange.
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We should watch that for overheating, but the internal camera and bracket both look
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pretty solid.
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I'm not a fan of those camera connectors though, as it appears my camera is malfunctioning
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at the moment, but at least the phone itself still works.
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You win some, you lose some.
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It was still worth it to see the insides.
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Would you rather have a phone with a flip up camera, or a pop up camera?
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Let me know down in the comments.
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And thanks a ton for watching.
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I'll see you around.