Gadgetory

the razor phone has survived my durability test and now it's time for the teardown and review from the inside we had a vote over on my Twitter yesterday to name our new little mouse friend and out of the suggestions in my last video came mouse emic mouse face and mr. MOS Jerry from Tom and Jerry ended up winning though good choice I like that name let's call him mr. Jerry Mose and I just hope he survives the teardown let's get started since there are no visible external screws on the razor phone the only logical explanation is that they are hidden under the plastic speaker grills and as with most adhesive this stuff gets softer as you heat it up I'll take a thin pry tool or in this case a razor blade and pry up that bottom plastic grill exposing a few screws I'll repeat the process with the top grill by warming it up and putting my razor into the razor and razoring it around a little bit the camera lenses come off with that top plastic I'll try to find replacements for these and link them in the description but since this isn't a super mainstream phone it might be difficult I'll pull the SIM card tray out just in case that's important and then there are six screws at the bottom a combination of Phillips and t5 screws there's another four screws up at the top one t5 and the rest are Phillips head getting the screen out of the frame was a little bit easier than I anticipated it's held in place with friction and a few small clasps still with a little leverage at the bottom of the screen and some gentle persuasion the whole thing can pop up and out of the phone body way easier than the 1+5 three already we can see some pretty interesting things inside this razor phone but we need easier access to get a better look there are a billion different sized screws in here so I am going to keep things organized I'll detach the screen ribbon cable first by unscrewing the metal bracket over the battery connector it's a fillip set and I'll peel back some of the metallic shielding over those connectors first thing to unplug is the massive battery and then the screen ribbon and now that the screen is free let's look at this massive heat pipe this might be the biggest heat pipe I've ever seen in a cell phone it's also got the thermal paste right over the top of the copper so the heat dissipation will be more efficient between the copper and the processor under the black tape there's another sheet of copper thermally adhered to the copper below it more copper is always a good thing the adhesive only sticks one time though so I'll just put that off to the side and as good as new this is the screen component the 120 Hertz IPS beast of a display that this phone is known for if you manage to break yours unfortunately I'll try to have some replacements linked in the video description for you so far it's been a pretty straightforward replacement now let's get that gigantic battery out I'll unclip the fingerprint scanner cable from the motherboard and then on the other side of the phone I'll remove the two screws holding down the volume ribbon bracket I'll set that off to the side and then unclip the volume button connector just like a little Lego this battery does have the magical pull tabs thankfully and razer was nice enough to give us a big enough tab to actually grab and pull on but wait there's more unfortunately there was some premature decapitation and now I have to commence the private but still pretty simple to replace the battery in this thing a 4000 milliamp hour razor branded powerhouse which is over twice the capacity of the iPhone 8 pretty impressive now for the charging port and vibration motor this is where things get a little more complicated there's a total of seven screws holding this thing down with a few golden frame attachments to that plastic antenna line I'll disconnect and peel back that charging port ribbon from the motherboard and removed the signal wires and the whole thing can come free the USBC charging port has a little bit of rubber around the tip but remember that this phone has no water resistance so be careful now for that vibration motor in most smart phones we find an eccentric rotating mass motor or circular coin vibrators but razer has stuck in a taptic vibrator similar to what we've seen on the iPhones but a fraction of the size it's incredibly small Marquez was complaining about his vibrator being trashed it sounds broken like it's but it sounded that way out the box since day one and now we can see why it's barely even there I assume Razer is making up for its small size by overpowering the itty-bitty guy and getting that blown out rattling sound like you would with a speaker apparently size matters when it comes to vibrators the bottom loudspeakers on the other side of the phone and it's pretty interesting once again no waterproofing but the speaker cone is made from rubber kind of like what we saw in the Apple earpods so even if moisture does get into the speaker it won't distort or blow easily and will wear out less with time it's nice of Razer to put quality speakers inside of their phone I'll toss the loudspeaker with its golden contact pads back into the frame and make my way up to the top of the motherboard the dual camera system is hidden under that metallic tape I'll peel that up and unscrew the one screw holding down the metal bracket over the connectors it's a weird bracket with a little rubber doohickey keeping it from popping out on one side the cameras themselves can unplug like little Legos and there are two screws holding the whole thing down one screw is tucked up underneath the camera connector this is not the most organized phone I've ever been inside but it's still not as bad at the old HTC's neither the regular camera lens nor the telephoto camera have OAS which is unfortunate optical image stabilization is pretty important when it comes to cameras been taking video there is no side-to-side Hardware stabilizing that we've seen on other major high-end flagships there are five more screws holding down the gold and ten align brackets to the motherboard and then one more screw hidden next to the front-facing camera the whole motherboard can lift up and away from the phone body after that the eight megapixel front-facing camera is removable if you're into that kind of thing also one more cool thing is that the front earpiece looks like it's the same size as the bottom speaker so there will be equal sounds coming from both ends of the phone it's just oriented in a different direction the top speaker also has that same durable long lasting rubber cone that we talked about earlier and now it's time to see if our little mouse buddy is still alive I'll get all those golden and tan aligned brackets back into place with those six motherboard screws there's another two screws specifically to hold down the rear cameras I'll get that silver bracket situated with its one screw and funky white little rubber pad thing and make my way down to the bottom of the phone the charging port goes in with its golden tan align brackets and six screws and the long extension cable can run up along the frame to the top and plug into the motherboard I'll tuck that massive battery back into place and get this silver bracket with its two screws back over the volume button ribbon the fingerprint scanner lego-like connection is next and then I'll toss that metallic tape back on over the cameras an SD card slot I do like saving the battery connector for last to be safe so I'll get the screen lined up and plugged in and then the battery the metal bracket goes over the top of all those connectors with its one screw to hold it down tight getting the screen lined up and press down was easy enough the kink near the power button from my bin test didn't mess me up too much since I am working with glass though I was pretty gentle and careful getting it back into place cracking the screen at this point would be incredibly unfortunate and it looks like everything still works this phone is currently available on Amazon right now so I'll leave a link for that in the description along with all the parts and tools I use during this video hopefully you never break yours but accidents happen I'll get all the screws back into the frame and unfortunately the speaker grilles are not going to go back into place nicely once they've been peeled off the adhesive is not reusable I'll probably try some double-sided tape it's point or just wait till I can find some replacements Jerry mouse is glad he survived the teardown and thanks you all for his new name come hang out this on Twitter Jerry and I thank you a ton for watching and we'll see you around