Gadgetory

a dual-screen smartphone pretty unique and pretty ingenious if you remember from my durability test video the axon M only has one camera someone asked me in the comments of that video what would happen if I tried opening snapchat and the normal camera app at the same time I decided to try it on an app people actually used Oh like Instagram and then also opened up the regular camera app at the same time and interesting ly enough both apps stayed open but only actively displayed the camera on whatever side of the screen I touched last so only one app works at a time simultaneous live streams between different apps aren't possible right now but maybe someday this teardown is sponsored by Squarespace if you need a quick and easy way to build a website I'll leave a link in the video description let's get started a question I have is can you add more than two screens to the smartphone let's jump inside this dual screen acts on em and see how it's put together there are seven little plastic squares covering up little screws the exterior screws are all t5 and do a good job of securing that back panel with the screws gone the back panel pops up and away from the back of the phone giving us our first look inside the W Knox if the battery needs to come out first this got us two Phillips head screws holding on that silver bracket I'll remove that and unplug the battery connector just like a little Lego now ZTE added a sweet little pull tab to their battery but don't let this fool you it's purely decoration and doesn't actually work sometimes brute force is the only option this 30 180 milliamp hour battery might be a little small to be powering dual screens but it does get the job done there are five more Phillips head screws down at the bottom of the phone holding down the loudspeaker plastics you can see the golden contact pads on the bottom which receive communication off of that charging port the charging port itself unplugs and pulls away from the phone easy enough this little black board is USBC and includes two more contact points for the vibration in order off to the side same as the loudspeaker this circular vibration motor receives power and communication through that charging port board I'll pull out the SIM and SD card tray next cuz that's still in there and while the motherboard doesn't have any extra screws holding it in place it does have a lot of connections the front screen extension ribbon cable the charging port extension a few circular wire cables side button ribbons and finally the interesting plug here on the left is the secondary rear display ribbon which looks quite a bit different than a regular screen ribbon connection we'll look at that more in a second now here's where I made a mistake I assumed the small gold ribbon under the headphone jack was for the headphone jack I was wrong it's actually for the front sensors so now those just won't work anymore the singular camera on the axon M is a 20 megapixel Beast but does not have any optical image stabilization the acts on M's camera doubles as the front and rear camera there are screens on both sides of the phone it's got some pretty powerful selfies inside the frame we have the normal thermal foam stuff between the processor and the middle of the phone to keep things cool and down here at the bottom we can see how the front screen is connected like most androids these days the screen is glued into the frame of the phone from the front which means removing it is catastrophic to the screen but if it does need to be replaced the new little ribbon would feed through this hole and extend up to the motherboard now for the secondary screen it's got two very large screws holding itself to the main body of the phone and then the whole thing lifts up and away from the phone body interesting to see a lot of the wire cables running through that hinge and this is it one screen connection and two screws as all this secondary screen has just like plugging in a second monitor into your desktop computer if ZTE were to add one more screen plug into the motherboard and another hinge on the opposite side of the phone I don't see why we couldn't have a triple screen phone in the future it's pretty similar to razors project Valerie or my own triple screen laptop that I built myself last year looking closely at the screen connector it has the same contacts we see inside the standard ribbons but this one's designed to be flexed over and over again inside that hinge constantly a normal Lego style thin ribbon wouldn't be able to stand up to that kind of abuse but these individual insulated wires can thumbs up for that I'll get the round wire cables tucked back inside the hinge and the secondary screen screwed back into place let me know in the comments would you ever buy a triple screen phone I think if they were able to shrink the bezels down a bit between the hinges it would be pretty awesome it's kind of like having a tablet in your pocket the motherboard is back into place with this beautifully torn front sensors it's kind of one less thing to worry about right I'll get the side buttons plugged in along with the normal front screen extension cable and the charging port ribbon there are three wire cables going back into place these guys are fragile and their heads can pop off if you pull too hard so I'm being gentle as I smoosh them back into place since the secondary screen connector is a bit different than the rest mostly just more thin I'll clip that in with my tweezers and plastic pry tool the charging port board can snuggle back into place there is no water resistance on this phone whatsoever I'll plop the loudspeaker back over the charging port with its five black Phillips head screws and finally the battery with its now deceivingly weak pull tab ripped off can slip back into the square slot it came from I always like to plug the battery in last before we can test the phone and see if it still works I'll get the silver bracket back into place with its two screws and then I'll press the power button so far we have at least one screen going so that's good I'll smash the back panel back into place with his seven screws and it's a success both screens are fully functional you know - the front sensors if you're looking to get ahead in the online world or even just get found you need to have a webpage whether you're starting a cell phone repair business selling products or just want your resume online Squarespace makes it pretty darn quick and easy I say easy because of a Squarespace there's nothing to install patch or upgrade and they have 24/7 customer support to answer any questions the internet never sleeps and neither does Squarespace you can buy new domains or transfer over one you already own feel free to check out the pre-made website templates in the link below and use that same link squarespace.com slash jerry-rigged to get 10% off of your purchase pretty easy let me know if you have any questions and 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