hi today we're going to take apart the
galaxy
s21 ultra 5g we'll get a good look at
those cameras
and supposedly it's 77 larger
underscreen fingerprint scanner
should be interesting let's get started
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the s21 ultra might have a slightly
different contoured camera bump this
time around
but the process to open her up is still
basically the same as all the other
samsungs we've seen for the past 6 years
a lot of heat and gentle prying my
second batch of knives is all sold out
by the way
but we will have a third batch coming in
may or june if you want to pre-order one
of those and join the cool knife club
jerryrigknife.com the large camera bump
actually makes the rear glass removal
quite a bit easier
which is nice since the textured back
makes it a little bit harder
my suction cup has a hard time gripping
that rough surface
but eventually we do get the back panel
off
the camera lens is metal
but the little circles inside the metal
housing are glass and can be replaced if
they ever break
two of the camera protrusion sides are
made from the size of the phone that
just extend upwards
the camera bump is still rather large
compared to other phones
but i like this implementation there are
14 normal phillips head screws holding
down the phone guts to the frame
i'll unplug the rear wireless charging
coil
and the nfc pad right above that getting
a closer look at the coils
shows us that there are actually two
coils of copper inside this pad
it could be that one of them is for the
15 watts of normal wireless charging
and the other is for the 4.5 watts of
reverse wireless charging
i don't know enough about
electromagnetic induction to say for
certain though
i do know however that the battery
connector cannot snap like a little lego
along with the side buttons rear led
flash and earpiece speaker
the earpiece unit of the s21 ultra is
water resistant
with its own rubber gasket around the
edge kind of cool
it sits inside of the frame next to the
square vibrator it's a bit aways from
the slit in the front of the phone
the speaker just channels its sound to
that slit through the gap in between the
phone frame and the screen
it's a little tunnel of tones if you
will
i'll unplug the front facing camera
along with a few other ribbons
and the super long extensions that go
between the main board and the charging
port
this phone is one of the international
s21 ultra variants
which means that the millimeter wave
antennas are missing from the sides
even though it does still say 5g on the
box it's another one of samsung's weird
advertising quirks
alongside their exynos and qualcomm
performance differences
and by quirks i mean it's a stretch to
even consider the international and
domestic variants to be the same product
the camera units take up a huge portion
of real estate inside of the phone
with four lenses and massive internal
sensors
the cameras are one of the main selling
points of this new phone
up top we have the 12 megapixel ultra
wide which does not have ois
the 108 megapixel main camera does have
ois
along with the 10 megapixel three times
telephoto zoom
which also has ois the periscope camera
has the ois internally
i did take the periscope portion apart
in last year's s20 ultra video
i'll link that down in the description
it's pretty cool to see
we have some graphite behind the cameras
under the motherboard
and against the screen to help with the
heat dissipation
the top front-facing 40-megapixel camera
is actually glued into the frame
very securely might i add trying to
remove it actually ripped the sensor
from the back side of the camera
which means it's probably toast but
we'll find out for sure when i put it
all back together
i'll pop off the bottom plastics this is
where the second stereo speaker is
located
this guy does have the sound dampening
foam balls inside
the bottom board has three screws of its
own holding it in place
along with the singular sim card slot
this slot does not have any expandable
memory
but the usb-c port does have a similar
ip68 red rubber ring
just like we saw around the top earpiece
in order for us to find that new
ultrasonic fingerprint scanner we have
to remove the battery
which unfortunately for us is a samsung
battery the glue holding this thing
together will
outlast the entire universe even with
isopropyl alcohol to dissolve the
adhesive
and heat it's still a doozy to remove
it's pretty crazy but eventually doable
dogs are allowed this time though if you
know what i mean
now the ultrasonic fingerprint scanner
is easy to spot at this point
and it is huge it has the largest
footprint of any fingerprint scanner
we've ever seen
it's so big you might even be able to
use your footprint we'll do a little
side-by-side size comparison between
this ultrasonic and last year's s20
ultrasonic scanner
not only is this one much larger but
there's also less empty space around the
scanner itself
jumping 77 percent in size in just two
years is a big improvement
mkbhd's dream of seeing a fingerprint
scanner that covers half the phone
could be a reality within the next year
or two overall i'm going to say that the
s21 ultra didn't do anything crazy
unique or new this year
it's just the same consistent samsung
experience that we've gotten for years
with its incremental improvements and
even though this particular phone might
not be calling my name
i'm sure it'll get the job done for
anyone who does get one i'll get the
wireless charging coils back into place
so we can check the front facing camera
that i decapitated
the phone still turns on so i'll get the
back glass situated
the rear camera looks to be working fine
but as soon as i turn it to the front
camera it fritzes out
and doesn't want to display any images
which i don't blame it
i wouldn't really want to work if
someone ripped me in half either
accidents happen
which is why if you want to see your
phone from the inside it's a whole lot
safer just to get one of my tear down
skins
all of the beautiful internals without
any of the decapitations
i'll leave a link for my tear down skin
down in the video description
let me know what you think of the s21
ultra down in the comments i'm curious
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