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welcome to the teardown of my favorite musical phone the huawei mate 20 Pro also the winner of mkbhd s blind smartphone camera test the mate 20 Pro is a powerful triple camera flagship that's not even sold in the United States today we're gonna be taking apart this beast of a phone and reviewing it from the inside it's packed with quite a few unique little quirks let's get started while we cause this back panel hyper optical and it has a special textured musical glass and a pretty vibrant psychedelic color scheme that stands out quite a bit you can always stealth mode the phone with AD brand skin which sticks to the textured glass panel just fine so if you need a little less vibrancy in your life or just a more professional-looking design that mate 20 pro might not be coming to the US but the brand ships internationally and includes free shipping to India with orders over $20.00 check out the D brand link in the description thanks addy brand for sponsoring this teardown let's get inside did you remember for my durability test the tolerance between the glass and the metal frame is super tight and that's true for even the back panel using quite a bit of heat it was still really hard to get my razor blade to slip between the metal and the glass the super-strong ip68 adhesive underneath didn't help much either eventually I was able to use my suction cup and metal pry tools to completely separate the back panel from the phone revealing the rather aesthetic insides of the may 20 pro a clear version of this phone would be pretty phenomenal metals covering all the inside camera units and the thick copper wires are also musical and can receive and emit wireless charging super impressive there are eight screws surrounding the top metal plate I'll keep these organized as I set them off to the side tool kits in the description there is one little ribbon cable attached to the camera LED that needs to be unplugged then the whole wireless charger is free it has some little gold contact pads on the back that allow the power to flow to and from the internal battery for wireless charging speaking of which I'll unplug that battery along with the four other ribbon connections down on the bottom row the mother they all unclip like a little Lego the top of the motherboard has another row of four Lego style ribbon connectors once those are released the whole board can pull away from the phone body revealing some of that bubblegum style goopy thermal paste the May 20 pro uses the metal frame of the phone as a heatsink there's no copper heat pipes one of the major selling points of the May 20 pro is the triple camera setup on the back it has the full menagerie of wide-angle telephoto zoom and normal camera lenses all of which are located in a single combined metal housing only one of which though has optical image stabilization the 8 megapixel telephoto camera is the only camera that compensates for shakiness the 20 megapixel ultra wide and 40 megapixel mainland's have no physical stabilization the top earpiece is pretty unique it has one little screw holding it in place the interesting part is that the bulk of the speaker is placed far below the small grill location which is actually a good thing bigger speakers allow for better sound and Huawei is just utilizing that extra space below the grill one thing that most smart phones don't come with these days is an IR blaster literally just a remote control built into your smartphone it's got an infrared LED built directly onto the motherboard this shines through the opaque plastic circle on top of the phone to communicate with your TV VCR or DVD player let's make our way down to the bottom of the phone another seven screws holding everything in place down here I'll pull out the unfortunate proprietary Huawei nano memory card tray then I can pull the bottom loudspeaker up and away from the phone the fascinating thing about this speaker is that it emits sound directly out of the USBC charging port literally injecting its sound out through the watertight mesh into the charging port canal itself which is fine in theory but what happens when you want to charge your phone and listen to music the charging port literally plugs your speaker up and makes it sound like music is playing out of a tin can plus there's no headphone jack the may 20 pro is all kinds of musically stupid except for the back panel of course the world's smallest coin style vibrator motor is over here on the left let's take out the battery there are some gold colored pull tabs over here on the left but I don't read Chinese I'm not really sure what they're for I do know number one and two make four lousy pull tabs it's the middle number three that's the only worthwhile pull and the removal isn't too bad the huawei mate 20 Pro is using a massive 4200 milliamp hour battery can't complain about that the next cool thing to look at is the under screen fingerprint scanner remember this little guy stopped working after my screen cracked during the durability test so let's see why it's a fairly large rectangle hidden under the display now that the battery is removed and light can shine through you can see the outline of the rectangular fingerprint scanner hidden under the screen itself it cannot be pulled out or removed like on the oneplus 60s in screen fingerprint scanner so the technology is definitely different with the two phones and in this particular case the mate xx Pro is much more fragile and less resilient to damage oneplus wins this round I'll put the battery back in over the fingerprint scanner overall it's not a bad phone to take apart yeah the back glass is tight but other than that once I'm inside most everything in the phone like the battery charging port and speakers can be replaced with minimal effort I'll make sure all the Lagos Style ribbon cables up top are lifted up and out of the way before sliding the motherboard into place below them and then clipping them all down into place the bottom ribbon cable highway gets the same treatment with the battery ribbon always getting plugged in last the LED flash is plugged in and the whole back panel and wireless charging pad can flop over on top of the motherboard and battery with its eight screws up top holding everything tight I'll slip our musical back panel over top of the components and press it down and get a little drumroll going before turning on that thing I'm always a little nervous about this part especially when there is a million people watching but luckily for me everything still turns on and we have yet another successful teardown yeah the screen cracked during the durability test but technically it's still alive would you buy this phone or is the funky loudspeaker with no headphone jack situation weird enough to turn you away let me know down in the comments hit that subscribe button if you haven't already and thanks a ton for watching I'll see you around