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| - | [* black] Disconnect the trap open thing |
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| + | [* black] ...But for all our talk, this rear panel does present something new. The fingerprint reader has a pretty short cable, making a tiny booby trap for the unprepared. Luckily we brought a spudger, and got it safely disconnected. |
| + | [* black] Cable dispatched, and we've got the glass out of the way. The S8+ and S8 follow the S6's move to a glass rear panel. This design has saved Samsung the engineering effort that goes into integrating antennas into a metal-backed phone, at the cost of durability and repairability. |
| + | [* black] Twice the crackability and a heck of an opening procedure won't help when it's time to score the repairability. |