With the midframe dispatched, we finally get a look at the battery and motherboard.

By this point, we're also accustomed to being able to remove the expandable memory, in the form of a MicroSD card. Where is it? Oh, that's right—Samsung eliminated it. If you need additional storage, you'd better pay for it up-front; there'll be no adding it later.

The midframe is littered with goodies—tons of spring contacts, an NFC/wireless charging coil, and a speaker.

We'd love to get the battery out now and take a look, but for the moment we'll have to settle for disconnecting it from the motherboard.