One plus 12 is the collest phone ever seen....

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Huge thanks to OnePlus for sending over a phone and sponsoring this teardown. Rarely do we see substantial improvements in the smartphone space. But this year, OnePlus has released a dual heatpipe smartphone system that can wirelessly charge at 50 watts. Going from 0 to 50 percent charged in just 23 minutes.  Not to mention the fact that the OnePlus 12 can charged wired with 80watts. Thats a huge deal.

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00:00A lot of high end flagship smartphones these days have copper gizmos inside called vapor chambers.

00:06These facilitate the heat removal from the processor just like a CPU cooler in a gaming

00:10computer. And for the most part, a bigger vapor chamber is better. Today, OnePlus has sent us a

00:17flowy emerald OnePlus 12 with the goal of revealing what they say is an extremely large dual cryo

00:28velocity cooling system and that I can extract this cooling system by whatever means necessary,

00:34which I'm very happy to do. Huge thanks to OnePlus for sponsoring this teardown and giving us the

00:39world's first look inside the OnePlus 12. I have another brand new phone we'll check the durability

00:44of after we're done with this one. The camera lens on the back is just as large and in charge as last

00:49year. The glass lens feels thick and solid similar to a large watch face. But we aren't here for the

00:55exterior. We're here for the interior. Using a heat gun and my handy dandy jerry rig razor knife,

01:01I can slice through the softened adhesive and pull the marbled teal back glass panel away from the OnePlus

01:0612. This gives us our very first look at the 50 watt wireless charger which is held down by 12 screws,

01:14each of which have a dab of red thread locker. Shout out if you remember the OG red battery days. And yes,

01:20this is indeed a 50 watt wireless charger. The OnePlus 12 can charge faster wirelessly than most phones

01:27can charge while plugged in, going from 0 to 50% charged in just 23 minutes. A day's worth of power

01:34in just a half hour. The OnePlus 12 has the fastest wireless charging of any phone in North America

01:39and is 3 times faster at wireless charging than the latest iPhone. It looks very similar to other

01:45wireless chargers with the same thin winding copper coils, but with the help of the dual cryo velocity

01:51cooling system, it can pack a punch. I enjoy saying that a lot actually. Cryo velocity.

01:57With the battery ribbon unplugged like a little Lego, I can move my way down to the bottom plastics.

02:01These have 8 more Phillips head screws. With the screws gone, the lower stereo spatial audio speaker can

02:07be removed. There are a few balls inside. Between this and the upper speaker it can throw out some pretty

02:13trippy 3D audio effects. And speaking of trippy, the battery comes out next, each side with its own

02:18pull tab. Thumbs up for that. You'll notice as it comes up that we get our first peek at the dual

02:26cryo velocity cooling system, which not only cools the processor, but also the battery during charging.

02:33Because on top of that 50 watt wireless charging, the OnePlus 12 has corded fast charging at 80 watts,

02:39which is 0 to 50% in just a mind blowing 12 minutes. It can accomplish these speeds because

02:44the batteries are split in half like the Cybertruck, each half charging up at the same time.

02:52And there's a total of 5,400 milliamp hours. Any excess heat generated by charging transfers out

02:58through the screen via that dual cryo velocity cooling system. With the SIM card tray removed,

03:03I'll unclip the daughterboard extension ribbon and the screen ribbon from its extension,

03:08along with the under screen fingerprint scanner. Then the charging port board can come away from

03:13the phone and it looks like the little circuits are coated, which I assume helps with the waterproofing.

03:18We also have some blue gaskets for the ribbon cables and a red rubber ring around the 80 watt

03:23USB-C 3.2 port. We have some more pretty blue gaskets up on top of the main motherboard,

03:28along with two more silver Phillips head screws. With the screws removed, we see that the OnePlus has

03:34color coordinated their thermal paste to the gaskets, which is most definitely aesthetically pleasing.

03:40The large rectangular camera unit still attached to the motherboard is the 64 megapixel 3x telephoto zoom

03:46with OIS. Apparently this can also zoom up to 120 times, but I did forget to check that out before

03:53ripping the phone apart. The blue thermal paste looks delicious, but we're not going to taste it.

03:57The center camera is our 48 megapixel ultra wide, and the larger camera off to the left is a 50 megapixel

04:044th generation Hasselblad camera. The same brand of camera they used when we first landed on the moon

04:0955 years ago. They did leave those cameras behind, so next time you look at the moon remember they're

04:14still up there. This one here on earth though does have optical image stabilization. The front camera

04:19is 32 megapixels and does not have OIS. Now this is where decisions need to be made. The dual cryo velocity

04:26vapor chamber is strategically placed on the frame where it can grab heat from the battery and snap

04:31jack an 8 Gen 3 and move that heat out through the thin 6.8 inch 2K resolution 120Hz AMOLED screen.

04:40This means that in order for us to see the rest of this cooling system we have to remove the screen

04:46which usually kills the screen. I'll do my best but I don't have high hopes for it surviving.

04:51But look at that. We finally see the rest of the copper dual cryo velocity vapor chamber.

04:58Hidden under some graphite it is a gigantic unit and not only is it massive but it's actually two

05:03vapor chambers stacked on top of each other. A smaller 3686 millimeter squared unit and a larger 5454

05:13millimeter squared vapor chamber sitting on top. A vapor chamber for a vapor chamber with a combined

05:20area of over 9000. The largest cooling system ever in a OnePlus phone and I think the largest cooling

05:26system we've ever seen on my channel outside of a laptop. Which means this OnePlus 12 is the coolest

05:33phone quite literally that we've ever seen. The copper rectangle is a vacuum sealed chamber with a very

05:39small amount of liquid inside and as the phone heats up that liquid turns to gas, cools, and then

05:44condenses and travels back to the heat source via some sweet capillary action along the thin wire mesh.

05:51And in this OnePlus 12 that process happens twice since the smaller vapor chamber has its own larger

05:57vapor chamber sitting on top, speeding up the heat dissipation efficiency like a sandwich of cooling.

06:04Even though OnePlus said I could extract the dual cryo velocity vapor chamber however I wanted,

06:09I did try to keep the phone in one piece, so fingers crossed. With the Hasselblad camera array put back

06:15into place and the motherboard clipped in, I can put the dual cell battery back where it came from.

06:20And moment of truth, the phone itself vibrates and turns on, but it looks like someone damaged the

06:26screen. And by someone I mean me. The shade of green almost matches the back panel though.

06:31F in chat for our fallen friend. Luckily OnePlus has a solid repair program going all the way back to

06:38the OnePlus 7, so getting replacement parts isn't too difficult. With a new screen and a new dual

06:44cryo velocity vapor chamber, it'll be as good as new. I'm a fan. Thanks a ton for watching. I'll see you around.

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