Remember Craig? Today it's time we take apart the 108 megapixel smartphone that only costs
$300...you know, a little autopsy. We'll compare the sensor size of the Realme 8 Pro to the
108 megapixel sensor inside of the Note 20 Ultra. Both camera sensors are made by Samsung,
and it'll be interesting to see them both side by side...from the inside. This video
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Now we already know Craig survived the durability test, but it's time to see if he survives
the teardown. Let's get started.
[Intro]
Opening up the back of my Teardown Skin Samsung Note 20 Ultra is pretty easy. Since I never
really added more adhesive to that back glass panel. You can see the 108 megapixel sensor
just chilling there in the middle. The Realme 8 Pro is still glued shut and it's a little
more difficult, but I can persuade it to open up with a little heat and my razor blade.
The suction cup does not stick to the rough edge surface...but that's okay. Since removing
the plastic back is much easier than removing a glass back, I don't have to worry about
this one cracking or shattering. I did however forget that Craig is still turned on. I would
make a terrible doctor.
Once all the adhesive is sliced away from around the edges, the back panel peels off,
leaving the stove top camera lens behind. The camera lens comes off on its own as a
separate piece. Then I can remove the 19 screws holding down the back plastics to the frame
of the 8 Pro. Now this is where things get a little different. Instead of the back plastics
being just the back plastics, this time around they also include the side plastics. I'll
pull out the ever given size SIM card tray, and then work my way around the edge of the
phone between the screen and the frame to pop off all the exterior plastics at the same
time. Kind of cool. I'll unplug the battery just like a little Lego. And then we can get
a look at the bottom loud speaker. No foam balls this time around, but there is a coin
style vibration motor attached to the plastics, as well as a water proofing mesh over the
speaker opening. The Realme 8 Pro doesn't have an official water resistance rating,
but it does still have quite a bit of water proofing inside of the phone...like this mesh
and rubber gasket around the microphone hole on the bottom. I still wouldn't trust it to
be watertight though, but it's good to see there are precautions in place.
I'll peel up the little green flap on the battery and give it a little tug. And nice
work, Realme. Removable batteries are the way to go. Even Craig approves. This is a
4,500 milliamp hour capacity battery, and pretty big for a phone this expensive. I'll
pop out the extension ribbons, and then make my way to the underscreen fingerprint scanner.
This optical reader does have a lens on it instead of just being a flat sensor. The lens
type seems to typically work better for me and my fingers. Then we have the bottom board
with the USB-C port, as well as our buddy the headphone jack. Jack and Craig are friends.
With a few more connections and one more screw holding down the motherboard, we finally get
a good look at those cameras. Normally cameras that work together are also sitting together
in some kind of metal housing to keep them all aligned and situated under that camera
lens. But that's not the case this time around. Each camera is kind of free floating and actually
kind of small. For example, usually the fingerprint scanner is the smallest camera sensor in the
phone by far. But this time around the fingerprint scanner feels right at home, next to the two
macro and depth cameras, each of which are 2 megapixels. The motherboard still has the
16 megapixel front facing selfie camera attached to it with the ribbon cable. And it has some
thermal paste on the back to help dissipate heat into that metal sub frame. This large
metal sub frame is probably what helped the phone survive the bend test, with it's boxy
rails along the side to help add structure and rigidity to the phone.
So Samsung does make the 108 megapixel sensors that reside in each of these phones. And we
can see that the sensor itself is different between the two models. The Realme 8 Pro's
footprint being much smaller by a pretty considerable amount. Larger sensors don't always mean better
sensors of course, but having more surface real estate to absorb light is generally considered
a good thing. The Realme 8 Pro's 108 megapixel sensor does not have optical image stabilization,
which might also explain the slightly smaller footprint. I'll use my razor blade to separate
the lens from the sensor so we can get a better look at the internals. This does kill the
camera, but I think it's worth it.
The internal sensor of the Realme 8 Pro measures about 8 millimeters across, which is interesting
because both the S20 Ultra and the Mi Note 10 Pro's 108 megapixel cameras measured about
10 millimeters across. So it looks like Samsung has managed to make a slightly smaller sensor
that's still capable of capturing 108 megapixels. It'll be interesting to see the different
side by side camera comparisons between the cameras. Maybe it will make an appearance
in MKBHD's blind camera test at the end of the year.
Overall though, I'm a pretty big fan of the price point. I can basically buy three Realme
8 Pro's for the price of one Samsung Note 20 Ultra. Both phones are boasting 108 megapixel
cameras, and only one of which has a headphone jack...and, of course, Craig, who is extremely
happy to still be alive....mostly alive. The camera doesn't work anymore, probably because
I ripped it in half. The camera app just opens and freezes. But everything else seems to
be working just fine so no complaints here.
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