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  • Today we're going to be taking apart the Oppo Reno- the one with the little triangular motorized

  • pop up camera in the top.

  • And we're going to see how it really works from the inside.

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  • Let's get started with the teardown.

  • [Intro]

  • A smartphone with moving parts, like this Oppo Reno, can be slightly more intimidating

  • to take apart, but we're going to dive in anyway.

  • There is no water resistance rating so the back panel just needs to be warmed up until

  • it's almost too hot to touch.

  • Then I can lift the glass sheet off with my suction cup while slicing through the thin

  • strip of adhesive surrounding the outside.

  • The green colored back panel can lift off...

  • [Zack's conscience] It's blue!

  • [Zack]...with no ribbons holding it to the body.

  • Remember that little ceramic O-Dot that Oppo added to keep the camera lenses from rubbing

  • up against stuff?

  • Well it's actually just a super tiny little guy, recessed with a bit of adhesive into

  • the back panel.

  • Pretty unique.

  • Taking a look inside the phone, we have eleven normal Phillips head screws holding down the

  • top plastic portion to the body.

  • Once those are out I can lift up the random black battery flap and remove the top plastics

  • and NFC coil.

  • As far as a clear phone goes, this Oppo Reno might actually be super cool.

  • We can already see the motor contraption over here on the left and the gold ribbon extensions

  • add a nice accent to the circuitry.

  • I'll unplug the battery like a little Lego, and then unsnap each of the three gold extension

  • ribbons from the bottom of the motherboard.

  • The long ribbons are still in the way of the battery, so I'll remove the 11 Phillips head

  • screws holding down the bottom loudspeaker plastics.

  • Then I'll pop off the speaker.

  • It has the normal two rectangular gold contact pads that allow it to communicate with the

  • phone.

  • I'll unplug the under screen fingerprint scanner, and the charging port ribbon basically falls

  • out at this point.

  • The USB-C port is attached to the end of the long gold ribbon and it's probably the easiest

  • charging port replacement of all time.

  • Nice work, Oppo.

  • It does have a red rubber ring around the tip to help cushion the constant unplugging

  • and plugging in of the charging cable.

  • But keep in mind this phone is not water resistant.

  • The other two extension ribbons unclip easy enough, then the bottom circuit board can

  • come out of the phone with our little buddy, the headphone jack.

  • Remember, only the less expensive of the two Reno phones comes with a headphone jack.

  • The more expensive 10x optical zoom Reno does not have a headphone jack, so you got to pick

  • and choose which features you want these days.

  • Luckily, there are plenty of phones out there to choose from.

  • I'll pop the optical fingerprint scanner out from under the screen.

  • You can see the light shining through the screen from the flash on my Galaxy S8.

  • Optical fingerprint scanners are pretty cool.

  • Want to know what else is cool though?

  • Battery pulls tabs.

  • Thumbs up for that.

  • The Oppo Reno is using a 3765 milliamp hour battery.

  • Let's get a closer look at the mechanical pop up camera operation up here.

  • We've run into all kinds of pop up cameras this year.

  • The standard little rectangle that pops up, then there's the flip up camera, and we've

  • seen whole phones shift up.

  • Now we have this weird triangular version.

  • I'll have to remove the regular rear cameras first.

  • It's a 48 megapixel standard camera with a 5 megapixel depth sensing companion...neither

  • of which have optical image stabilization.

  • I'll remove the two long wire cables from the right side of the board, and then unplug

  • the triangular pizza looking front camera.

  • Then I can remove the dual SIM card tray.

  • The motherboard can lift out of the frame.

  • It has some normal thermal paste on the back which helps transfer heat to the metal frame

  • of the phone.

  • Now for the fun stuff.

  • The small internal motor of the Oppo Reno has 3 tiny black Phillips head screws holding

  • it to the body.

  • I'll gently lift off the 4 square contact pads that power the motor, then check this

  • out.

  • The way this whole thing works is pretty similar to all the other motorized smartphone cameras

  • we've come across.

  • The miniature stepper motor business is booming right now.

  • The motor on the left turns this threaded shaft, and as the threaded shaft spins, the

  • stationary metal chunk gets screwed up and down the shaft, raising and lowering this

  • piston looking rod, which is attached to the base of the triangular pizza camera, with

  • one little screw.

  • Each time the front camera or rear flash is engaged, the whole contraption motors on up

  • to do it's job, then motors itself back down again.

  • It can also sense pressure applied to the top of the pizza.

  • If the spring on the rod feels any pressure from the top, it can trigger the return of

  • the motor so nothing gets damaged by excessive force.

  • I'll remove the little screw holding the protruder rod to the bottom of the camera unit.

  • Then the whole metal camera contraption can pull right out of the phone.

  • Notice this metal lip that secures the camera on the right side.

  • Incredibly simple, yet efficient design.

  • The built in solid metal lip acts as a super secure fulcrum when the camera is rotating

  • in and out of the phone.

  • The camera motor can pull out of the plastic guiding shaft.

  • And here's another close up look of it in action.

  • It's interesting that the hole for the rod that goes up to the camera has it's own little

  • red rubber ring.

  • It might help keep dust out, and it might help keep the metal rod from grinding on the

  • sides of the phone.

  • Remember, Oppo said that this motor's good for 200,000 camera raises, which is a pretty

  • insane number.

  • If you only use your flash or a front camera once a day, it would last for over 500 years...after

  • which, of course, it might be time to get a new phone.

  • Let's see what's inside this camera unit.

  • The rear plastic layer is held on by a thin strip of adhesive.

  • I'll fold that up, revealing the dual LED flash and two screws.

  • I'll remove those and pull out the 16 megapixel selfie camera from inside the housing.

  • And look at that.

  • The earpiece of the phone is inside the camera unit.

  • Did not see that one coming.

  • The hole up at the top is indeed a microphone hole.

  • You'll be surprised at how many messages I get from people who stick their SIM card removal

  • tool in the wrong hole and are wondering if they damaged anything.

  • The answer is usually always no.

  • The microphones are positioned off to the side of the microphone holes where the SIM

  • removal tools can't harm them.

  • Still super interesting that the earpiece is included inside the pizza camera module.

  • I guess it makes sense though, considering how large the pizza slice is and how much

  • space it takes up inside the phone.

  • The design of the Oppo Reno is much more efficient than I expected, and it's not at all hard

  • to take apart.

  • In comparison, iPhones are way more complex and difficult to repair and they don't even

  • have moving parts.

  • I'll try putting this thing back together in one piece.

  • I do like to keep these things alive.

  • If they survive the durability test, I feel like they kind of deserve it.

  • I'll get the motor back into place inside it's plastic guiding shaft and screw it into

  • the phone.

  • Then I can add the motherboard, rear facing cameras, and make sure the Lego-style connectors

  • are all clipped in tight.

  • I can grab the bottom circuit-board and put that in place, clipping in the under screen

  • fingerprint scanner and the long charging port ribbon.

  • Once the battery's back in it's slot, I can add the last few extension ribbons and start

  • screwing in those 22 Phillips head screws that hold everything together.

  • Overall I'm impressed with Oppo this time around.

  • This Reno phone is built much stronger than the previous Oppo Find X.

  • And amazingly, even after being durability tested, and taken entirely apart and reassembled,

  • the whole thing still works.

  • You know it's a good phone when it can survive both of my reviews: the durability test and

  • the teardown.

  • I'm a fan of motorized cameras.

  • Besides last year's Find X, they've all been built super solid.

  • Let me know down in the comments what other phones you want to see reviewed from the inside.

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  • Thanks a ton for watching and I'll see you around.

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