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Samsung Galaxy Alpha Teardown

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  • Both the Samsung Galaxy S5 and iPhone 5s brought fingerprint scanning to the home button. And both did it fairly crudely, with a flimsy cable in the line of fire when opening the device.

  • The iPhone 6 and 6 Plus saw Apple rerouting this cable into the display assembly, to better protect it.

  • Samsung decided to simply detach the home button from the display assembly, so that its cable now routes down into the interior.

  • This eases the opening procedure a bit, but the capacitative touch button cables are still obnoxiously delicate and require painstaking precision to free.

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