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We reserve the right to continue bellyaching about the opening procedure on these phones, but once inside it's not all bad news.
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The USB-C port, a component that will experience wear, can be removed with the daughterboard.
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Meanwhile, the 3.5 mm headphone jack is present (huzzah!) and completely modular. We find this essential on premium handsets.
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All that, plus an IP68 water/dust ingress protection rating that bests Apple's efforts. Not too shabby.
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The front-facing sensor (likely AMS TMD4906) assembly is also present on its own little board—another easily replaceable module!
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Next we open up the S Pen compartment … to find the S Pen. Kind of obvious I guess, but we couldn’t help ourselves.
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