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- Ifixit Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 gives a compassionate repair score in its latest tear.
- Delicious internal ingredients, adhesive batteries, and a hard place to re -driven the DIY fix.
- It may be that the same design choice can help the phone avoid extreme stability tests.
The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 influenced the notorious turning turn test of Jerry Greworing last week, which is exactly the same. According to IFIXIT, if something goes wrong, repairing the device is a different type of endurance test.
In a new tear down video, IFIXIT gives folds to just three of the ten repairs, calling it a delicate and “dream of repair”. The team appreciates Samsung’s hardware engineering in some places-such as easily changing USB-C port-but says disappointing adhesive, extremely thin batteries, and a very delicate internal screen difficult and prohibited both of the common repairs.
The whole process is everything that is wrong in battery change in modern electronics.Ifixit
Two adhesive lithium -ion batteries appear from the indiscriminate process, both of which use old -fashioned bridges tab adhesive things that often tear down and require strength to remove it. How thin the batteries are, seeing that too much pressure application can cause them to cause combustion.
Internal display is more than headache. Despite rating 500,000 layers, the 8 -inch AMOLED panel is highly sensitive to pressure and torson. Even used to lift the shining bezel. IFIXIT estimates that the screen repair will cost about $ 600, and just to replace the panel is not realistic in most cases, as the screen and chassis change is usually built.
In defense of Samsung, some things that make it difficult to repair Fold 7 can help survive in a piece. The attack on Gearjranging highlights the device’s impressive structural power, in which Samsung’s re -designed occupation and external display are suffering from serious abuse. It is possible that strong adhesive and strong components that disappoint repair efforts also play an important role in this amazing stability.
Nevertheless, IFIXIT criticizes Samsung’s broader repair records, and indicating that spare parts and repair customs are still missing for last year’s Z -Fold 6, leaving the new model. He says if Samsung improves his support for repairing himself, he will consider updating the Z -Fold 7 repair score.
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