(buzz of circular hand saw)
- Whoa!
(clatter of dropped object)
- Ahhhh!
(humming and buzzing techno sound effect)
- Welcome back to What's Inside.
I'm Lincoln and this is Daniel.
Today we have an awesome, awesome thing.
(whispers) It's really awesome.
- (whispers) What is it?
- (whispers) It's a Samsung S8.
- Today we have this Samsung Galaxy S8.
So this phone actually isn't even out yet.
It comes out on April 21st in the US,
and then April 28th everywhere else in the world, so....
We were lucky enough to reach out to our friend TechRax.
(fizzling sound of lighted fuse and combustion)
Have you guys seen his channel? He, like, breaks stuff.
- Dude, this thing is so hot.
- Puts drones in a swimming pool full of Coca Cola.
(buzzing and sputtering of propellers in liquid)
TechRax did a drop test on this phone.
The screen is cracked right there and right there,
but it still works just fine.
Like, you can see, if we zoom, if we go through it,
it totally works. There's all the apps.
It's just a little cracked.
So TechRax, big thanks for sending us this phone.
We are going to now see what's inside of it, and...
wow, if you turn it, the stars go with it. Did it do that?
- Wait.
- Whoa. We almost got another drop test!
- Watch how I turn it off.
- [Daniel] Oh!
- Did you see that?
- Yeah. It closes like a book.
- The screen is pretty cool.
It has an infinity edge,
or bezelus...is that what it's called?
So the screen kind of curves around
like those infinity edge pools.
This is my daily driver, this iPhone 7 Plus.
This is what I've been using for the last few months.
- This is mine.
- Lincoln uses the Motorola.
If you look at the width of these phones--
- All of them--
- This is the skinniest of all of them.
My hands are pretty big, but still,
I have to use this pop socket all the time.
But it'd be nice to just pick up my phone and just hold it.
It just feels like it's right.
So what do we do when we get early access to a phone?
- Destroy it.
- We destroy it.
- Yeah.
- So, we're gonna get to business.
We're gonna get into this thing,
but we need to get some tools, and, ah....
- We are prepared!
- Some of these are actual tools.
- Like, actual tools.
- Things that people would use
to actually get into things properly.
A couple of giant suction cups,
and maybe we put one on each side and then we just pull,
and see if we can pull it apart.
We're gonna put one on the back and one on the front.
Because of the bezelus lens on here, and the display,
I really think that the back is likely to come off.
I think I'm gonna put this on right here.
(snap)
Oh! It locks into place.
Ugh.
(laughter)
Has this ever been tried on YouTube before?
- Oooh. I don't think so.
- Me and Lincoln.
I'm just gonna sit here steady, and you just pull.
Go ahead.
(twang and pop as suction cup releases)
Ah!
(repeat twang and pop and vocal reaction in slow motion)
- I knew that was gonna happen.
(Daniel laughs)
(twang and pop of suction cup release)
Whoa!
- Alright, we're gonna--
- Wait.
- We're gonna give this one more try. One more try.
- Okay.
- And see if this'll work.
And then we're gonna have to take drastic measures.
(loud popping sound of suction cup release)
(Daniel sighs.)
We're calling in some help.
Here's our professional help. Zack...
- This is the professional here.
- You've probably seen his channel.
It's called JerryRigEverything. His name is not Jerry.
Zack, what are we doing wrong here, buddy?
- What I think is missing is heat.
Heat on that back panel will soften the adhesive,
and hopefully let it separate.
- Blow dryer time.
Is this what you mean? Is this heat enough?
- Mine looks a little bit different than that.
- Where do I do it? Just right there?
(techno music)
- First gonna try 'er real quick and see.
- Oh! (popping sound of suction release)
- No!
- Mine came off the back!
It felt like it was doing something.
- Thought we almost had it there for a sec.
- I did too. It kind of went off a little.
- It moved.
- (techno music)
- Alright, - Go go go go!
last try with the suction.
(popping of suction release)
- No good!
Alright. Enough of the blow dryer.
We have all these tools. We have a professional here.
Can you show us how to get into this the proper way--
which, you've never got into this phone before, right?
- Yeah. This is a brand new S8.
This is the first S8 that I've actually held before.
- We're gonna put a link to Zack's channel in the scription.
You can subscribe to his channel,
because in a couple of days
he's gonna do a full test on this. Durability test...
- Durability.
- with fire, with his strong hands.
- [Lincoln] Really strong hands.
- [Daniel] Let's work your magic.
- Alright.
- Let's see what we can do here.
- So what I'm gonna right now's
I'm gonna lift up a little bit on this bottom edge,
and hopefully give me enough room
that I can slide my pry tool inside.
See that?
- [Daniel] Oh yeah. - [Lincoln] Oh.
- Now the pry tool's in there
and I'm cutting away that adhesive.
The back panel is glass, though,
so we have to be really careful not to break it.
(techno music)
- [Lincoln] What?
(techno music)
- [Zack] Ready for the reveal?
(Lincoln vocalizes a drumroll)
- [Daniel] That was way better than what we were doing.
- [Zack] And it's still in one piece.
Hopefully the phone is still working.
- [Daniel] I feel like I wanna just take a saw to it now.
(laughter)
- [Lincoln] That's a camera. Why does it move?
- It's actually called the OIS.
The optical image stabilization.
If you're filming somebody,
it's not gonna be as shaky as what
the older phones used to be.
- This is the battery. No catching fire by the phone.
A hundred and thirteen degrees.
And no dogs. That's important.
- [Daniel] Wait, wait, wait. Does it really...?
- [Lincoln] It really says that.
- [Daniel] No dogs, and no tools. Dude, we used tools.
You didn't tell me this is dangerous.
- Where's the dog? Where is the dog?
- Why does it say no dogs on that?
You can't puncture, burn it, and also, there a,
you can't have a dog.
So right now most of the phone is black,
and the interesting stuff is underneath this black part,
so we're gonna take off all of these screws.
(snaps his fingers)
- [Daniel] Alright, we've got the screws
all sitting there pretty.
Here is the back. It's all off, so now what?
- This phone has a cool feature
where it can charge wirelessly.
I have never seen the inside of one of these pads.
(music)
- [Daniel] Look at that! What is that stuff?
What's gonna be our prize?
- It looks like there's a bunch of copper wires
inside of it.
- So when you set the phone on top of the wireless charger,
the wireless charger also has these same copper wires
inside of it.
- Oh, so it connects through it.
Kinda like a levantine light.
- Exactly. That's exactly the way it is.
- Okay, so that camera is cool.
The battery wireless charging is cool.
We still have a phone that's working.
Like, is this thing still gonna work
even though we destroyed all this wireless charging stuff?
- Yeah. So, obviously, the only part that's not gonna work
on this phone is the wireless charger.
- So if we just put the back back on it, it'll work.
- Oh, yeah. One hundred percent.
- That's good, 'cuz I was thinking that
that's not really our thing here.
I wanted to try...
(shrill whine of power tool cutting into the phone)
(Daniel cries out in frustration)
That's some tough glass.
(whine of saw cutting the phone)
Aughhhh!
(whine of power tool)
- [Zack] Oh. That's in there.
- (caughs) Did you see all that green winging out?
We're pretty far down into it.
The battery doesn't look like it's been touched yet,
and, any lithium ion battery is...
Yup, that's.... Whoa!
Okay.
(clatter of something falling)
(Daniel cries out, laughing)
Look it! Look at it!
(hissing sound of battery expanding)
(Lincoln laughs)
- [Zack] The battery's expanding. That's crazy.
You must have nicked it.
- [Daniel] Shut the door! Shut the door!
(sound of door shutting, battery hissing)
- [Zack] You must have nicked the battery on that back side.
- [Daniel] Must have nicked it, yep.
How well does it protect itself from that?
Oh, there's some battery juices there.
That's crazy. Look at that!
So Zack, you've seen some batteries explode before,
or, light up. Is that pretty good?
Does it look like it has some,
like, some fail safes in place?
- Yeah.
- Or is that just any typical battery?
- There's not like any sparks or flame going on right now,
which, like, if you nicked it, normally there would be
sparks and flames. So this is a very good thing.
It looks like Samsung has -- it's still really hot --
but it looks like Samsung has stopped the flame issue.
- [Daniel] I thought for sure it was gonna explode
in our house.
Zack is going to take a razor blade
and poke the battery
and see what happens. Because it should catch on fire.
- [Zack] It does smell like that burnt Skittles right now.
Do you smell that?
- [Daniel] Mmm hmm.
It smells sort of like nail polish to me.
- [Zack] Nail polish, that's a good one too.
Yeah, dude, there's no sparks or anything in here.
- [Lincoln] And we're stabbing it with a razor blade.
- Yeah. This metal impurity should start the flames,
but, it doesn't. There's no flame.
- Yes! Samsung!
From our nonscientific, I mean, just, sample size of one,
it did not catch on fire.
It smoked a little bit. It expanded. It got big.
But then something happened where, it just stopped.
So, while it was sad to cut into that thing,
it was good for science. - It was good.
We all learned something.
- That, the battery on this thing survived
a lot better than some of the videos that I saw
on Zack's channel, when he actually
poked one of the batteries with the knife
and the thing caught on fire.
So, go subscribe to his channel right now,
because within the next few days
he's gonna do a full durability test on this phone.
And, again, huge thanks to TechRax.
check out his channel and subscribe to it
for awesome tech destruction.
There you go. See ya.