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Essential Phone Teardown

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  • With the motherboard on ice, we're finally able to tweeze out the dual camera module.

  • Either Essential accidentally put these camera pop connectors on backwards, or someone had too much fun figuring how to origami them into place.

  • Nearby, the selfie cam lies on a strip of glue and takes a little more work to extract, bringing the front-facing sensor cable along for the ride.

  • Surprise! The front-facing camera and earpiece speaker come as a single part. That tiny port lines up directly with the über-slim grille at the top of the phone!

  • The small flex cable terminates with possibly an AMS TMD3700 color sensor.

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