GOOGLE FINALLY DID IT ▪︎▪︎▪︎ I'm soo proud--

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Today we take apart the Google Pixel 10 PRO XL - to see if google has finally made it repairable. Get your own inexpensive Tello phone plan HERE: https://tello.com/?utm...​ Historically google has been gluing their lithium batteries in place. This is not good. However - thanks to public pressure - it appears as if Google has had a change of heart since now the inside battery is very removable. Easy even.   Get my Teardown skin from dbrand HERE: https://www.dbrand.com...​  You know what's even easier though? Removing the screen of the Pixel 10 Pro XL. Its a pretty fool proof design. Easy enough even for the average Joe - (whos screen is already broken.)

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00:00Rumor has it that the new Pixel 10 Pro XL is the new easiest to repair smartphone on the planet.

00:06Easier than even the Fairphone 6, which is wild. Today we're going to find out for ourselves.

00:11Turns out that Google has released a free 234 page repair guide. You can print them all out

00:17for a bit of light reading. And if this video gets 100,000 likes, I'll read every page word

00:22for word like a cozy bedtime story. My goal here today is to keep this smartphone alive,

00:26since my last one, you know, it's just nice to see them alive sometimes. I'll drip some

00:31isopropyl alcohol around the edges of the glass, hoping that some wicks between the glass and the

00:36aluminum into the adhesive underneath to help dissolve it. Then I'll use an ultra-thin pry tool

00:41to insert around the earpiece and slowly make my way down both sides, making sure of course that my

00:46tool does not go deeper than just the black bezel until I'm positive that I can reach underneath

00:51the AMOLED panel, since if something touches the edge of that panel it'll break the display.

00:56The only reason to remove the screen though is if it's already broken. So this level of care and

01:01precision isn't normally required on a damaged phone. I'm just attempting it with the screen on

01:05to prove that it's possible. Which it clearly is, because as you can see with the screen off,

01:10there are no additional screws inside the Pixel body. Just a metal latch and a Lego style ribbon

01:15cable that snakes over into the other half of the phone. As long as you don't damage this long

01:19ribbon, it's a rather foolproof removal process. My screen is very much still alive,

01:24and a sufficiently caffeinated smartphone technician could probably replace a Pixel 10 Pro smartphone

01:30screen in about 2 minutes if they really wanted to. It's an extremely impressive design. If you

01:35don't mind using a heat gun, I think this display just won the most repairable smartphone screen of

01:40the year. There is a small rectangle at the top that allows the light and proximity sensors to see

01:45out through the pixels on the display. You can see my flash shining through the screen. Kind of fun.

01:50I'll turn the phone off now that I've proven it can be done. The latch that holds the screen ribbon

01:54just slides horizontally out of the way, and then the plug pops off like a little Lego,

01:58releasing the ultra thin screen and its under screen ultrasonic fingerprint scanner.

02:03The rest of the hardware is still in the phone body, but only accessible from the back side.

02:07If you remember from this sneak peek during the durability test, Google might have also given us

02:12a new, easy way to remove the battery for the first time. I love it when companies do nice things.

02:17Speaking of companies doing nice things, I'll pull the SIM card tray out next. This is an

02:21international version of the Pixel 10 Pro XL, so I do still have a SIM card tray. The version

02:26sold in the US does not. Which isn't all that bad though since eSIM smartphone plans can be way

02:31less expensive, even as low as 5 bucks a month with my channel sponsor Telo. I feel like more people

02:37should be talking about how inexpensive these plans are. With Telo you can most likely still keep your

02:42same phone and same phone number and I'll explain how it works as I try not to break the glass panel.

02:47Cross your fingers for me. Telo gives you reliable 4 or 5G LTE coverage without a crazy monthly price

02:53tag. It's rather refreshing to see numbers that small again in this economy. Even an unlimited

02:58everything talk, text and data plan is only $25. The first 35 gigabytes of which are high speed,

03:03very reasonable. You can change your plan whenever you want and there are no long term commitments or

03:08contracts just how we like it. Plus you get free international calls to 60 different countries,

03:13free wifi calling, hotspot, eSIM and international roaming. It's a crazy good plan that just sells

03:19itself. And I imagine Telo is able to keep their prices so low by not having any brick and mortar

03:24stores and just using dashingly handsome online influencers to let people know their product exists.

03:29I'll leave a link for Telo down in the description and huge thanks to Telo for taking on the big boys and

03:34having extremely reasonable prices. Glad I could help more people know they can save money. And would

03:38you look at that. The rumors are true. The green pull tab does exist. We'll have to give it a few

03:43tugs in just a second, but first we've got to find the battery plug and remove some of the ribbons that

03:48are in the way. All the screws in here are a T3, which is nice, but they are all different lengths,

03:54so keep them organized and don't sneeze. With the wireless charging cables unplugged, it's cool to see

03:58that Google has labeled the Tensor G5 chip, a label that no one would ever see unless you're here

04:03subscribed to my channel. Kind of fun. Turns out as well that since Google has added new magnets to

04:08the back of the phone, it now cannot reverse wireless charge anymore like it could on the

04:12previous Pixel 9. The magnets mess with the lower powered induction field. I'll remove the 7 visible

04:18T3 screws and pop out the substantially large metal plate. This might be what helped add so much

04:23strength to the phone during the durability test. There's another 7 screws along the bottom with another

04:29shiny metal plate. This also has a water damage indicator sticker stuck to the top. With the

04:34plates gone we can remove the signal ribbon extension cable. The top of the ribbon has some textured dots.

04:39This is braille for what the heck are you doing in here. Finally, the battery, which for the first time

04:46appears to be very easily removable. There are no arrows or indicators on which flap to lift up first.

04:52There are two flaps, and maybe I should have read that manual first. But with some very solid tugs,

04:58the green tab lifts the battery away from the lower plastic wrapping that's still left inside of the

05:02phone. Not bad at all. Nice work Google. These lithium batteries are 95% recyclable, so it's nice that

05:13we can now remove the 5200 milliamp hours without exploding. Thumbs up for that. I do have a little

05:20extra bracket now though. I'm not sure where it came from. We'll just slide this out of frame and pretend

05:25we never saw it. I'll unplug the extension ribbon that connects the main board to the charging port

05:29board. This is very similar to the long extension ribbon that extends out the front to the screen.

05:34We have one more screw holding down the charging port board. And this guy is a USB 3.2 port that can

05:40charge at 45 watts. The little gray rubber ring around the tip helps with the IP68 water resistant

05:46rating. Google has also conveniently given us our own little transparent blue window into the balls

05:51inside the loudspeaker. Thank you for that. The loudspeaker also has an orange rubber ring and

05:56waterproofing mesh over the opening. There's a large rectangular haptic vibrator near the bottom corner.

06:01Making our way up to the motherboard and cameras, things get a little more complicated since there

06:06are some hidden screws. Two in the left corners and two more under a metal bracket up at the top.

06:10Then the motherboard can lift up and out of the frame, pulling the long screen ribbon cable out

06:14through the back as it comes up. We can unclip the camera units from the backside of the motherboard.

06:19On the left we have a 50 megapixel main camera with OIS, then a 48 megapixel ultra wide camera which

06:25does not have OIS, and a 48 megapixel 5x optical telephoto which does have internal optical stabilization.

06:33And I'm not sure where this guy came from. Nobody saw that. And we have some thermal paste on the back

06:38that helps bridge the air gap between the Tensor G5 chip and the copper vapor chamber of the phone.

06:43I'm not sure what these mesh strands are for on this other side. It looks kind of like a drywall patch,

06:48but it probably has something to do with cooling. Some kind of air gap Google wanted to fill.

06:52On the opposite side of the phone at the top near the upper stereo speaker, we get another window into

06:57the ball pit for ants, and a little tic tac toe game so technicians have something to do when they're

07:02bored. Honestly I'm a massive fan of what Google is doing with repairability. With the new near foolproof

07:07screen removal process, a new removable battery, and most importantly genuine replacement parts available

07:13from iFixit, plus the free repair manual, I think the Google Pixel 10 Pro is on track for the most

07:18repairable smartphone of the year, and an excellent choice for a long term flagship upgrade. Even after

07:24everything it's been through, it still turns on and works like a champion. But of course, just like

07:29every other smartphone, it always looks better naked. If you want to pay less for your next smartphone

07:34bill and check out Tello in the description. And thanks a ton for watching. I'll see you around.

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