Pixel 9 Pro Fold Teardown! The Most Exciting Foldable Yet!

[@Ebalosus]

Glad to see a replaceable USB-Port, since that has always been a downside for me on what I find an otherwise very repairable line of phones.

[@davidjacobs6244]

God knows what some people do with their smartphones to have problems with the charging port.I’ve never had a problem with any type of charging port on a smartphone in 14 years of using them 🙄

[@mbrick]

I've never had a charge port fail on any iPhone or 4 generations of Pixels... not sure this is really that big of a need?

[@egarcia1360]

@@davidjacobs6244 1. Plug it in. 2. Unplug it. 3. Repeat steps 1 and 2, hundreds to thousands of times. 4. ???? 5. Loose charging port.

[@Domfootstitch]

did you guys ditch the repairability scoring? I liked that

[@iMrParker]

They were always so inconsistent IMO. Maybe they're working on standardizing it more

[@Dylanzsen]

They want since they sell spare parts . Double Standards

[@TheG121]

A step in the right direction, commendable!

[@ronlevin2339]

still I will love to see battery that can be removed before the mother board and please use better removal tabs (even those made by Apple are better, witch is strange for me)

[@dfear]

The battery adhesive in recent iphones is terrible. Occasionally 1 tab might come out ok, but most of the time they break into two or three pieces.

[@flug_rost]

Having the outer display be so easily removable without heat worries me a bit what‘s going to happen when it gets hot in the summer sun for a while

[@Kimkim-gl6qc]

Up next will be 20 screws holding screen & back glass without glue and there will be at least one saying “too many screws” or “why ditch the waterproofing”.

[@NYFan77]

Pixel outer screens always pop out. You need to keep t7000 around

[@Aative]

I'm glad to see that Google is offering genuine parts and official documentation to consumers in addition to 7 years of updates. My fold arrives on Friday and I'll probably be hanging onto it for a long time.

[@darrencen6934]

Next idea for a new video : build a Pixel phone out of replacement parts

[@petyaur]

I always felt these times are gone, they remain in the '80s, and they never come back. Actually, this stuff is SO, SO MUCH COOLER, can't wait to see this as a real norm. More and more people will be guilty of prying their stuff, they become their own guarantee for future usable state of their gadgets, and maybe software could follow the same princible, could run as near or true 100% open source, could have the community to just make everything future proof with security updates, or maybe our main software/OS providers could find out how to create a simpler model to deploy endless security updates easily for our oldest stuff. If you ask anybody: "Do you want to swap your existing stuff to newer or you want them to just work, and you just want more and more useful stuff? (occasionally buying way newer ones, of course)" I think almost everybody wants more, and real good quality, long term supported ones. With good payment options, of course. No borrowing, no endless monthly fees. Properties with decent contracts.

[@govind_qcrp7]

repairability score??

[@dfear]

That was what I was thinking. I would give it a 8 or 9. I would knock off a point for the crappy battery pull tabs.

[@mrrkrr]

this

[@NYFan77]

Good video would have liked a longer section on that inner screen

[@Computerpartart]

Your accent is delightful, where are you from??

[@DevinKenyon]

question for you guys at iFixIt: does the P9PF have an inner glass screen protector? i have one and I'm trying to figure out if it does or doesn't so i can get one if needed

[@rolf-smit]

No score?

[@egorkosten]

Thanks for the video. What about the repair score?

[@bosstowndynamics5488]

You guys should make skins with prints of those false colour scans, would be a day one purchase for me for my next phone

[@swarnendu]

Is that outer glass and the back cover made of glass coz the way they both bend outwards when you try to pull them out looks like they are plastic.

[@bosstowndynamics5488]

Gorilla Glass Victus for both panels - thin glass is more flexible than you might think

[@swarnendu]

@@bosstowndynamics5488 Oo I didn't know that. Do you mean Victus has a thin variant or every Victus we see on phones like that on s24 series are similarly thin as well?

[@bosstowndynamics5488]

@@swarnendu As far as I'm aware they're all really thin and somewhat flexible (at least by glass standards) as a result. When it's assembled onto the phone you don't notice because the combined structure is very stiff, but on its own without any support the screen can flex a bit (and break if bent much more than what's seen in the video)

[@rafaelrobles9855]

Question, does the pixel 9 pro fold have a vapor chamber similar to the pixel 9 pros?

[@adriangabba]

no

[@Link9164]

It does. You see it on jerryrigs teardown.​@@adriangabba

[@Jan-xf8sk]

Well at least Google is gracious enough to provide you replaceable parts (even with the complex, and probably more expensive, foldable screen) unlike Apple.

[@nonrumor]

Where's the other guy???

[@samtherat6]

$900 to replace the fragile screen yourself, and it’s still hard to remove I’ll continue to wait.

[@Bai-Hui]

Where did you see $900

[@samtherat6]

@@Bai-Hui iFixit’s store. The screen only comes with the frame like they said in the video, and costs $900 for the part alone.

[@JudgeRightly]

I'm not seeing any parts on ifixit's store for the P9PF yet...

[@samtherat6]

@@JudgeRightly Oops-you’re right. I was looking at the original Pixel Fold. But I’d be surprised if it was significantly cheaper for the Pixel 9 Pro Fold screen. Even $450 feels cost prohibitive for such an integral and fragile part of the device.

[@bosstowndynamics5488]

​@@samtherat6At the same time, it's an expensive and relatively small volume part, and the entire reason that the foldable unit is so much more expensive than the other devices in the lineup. Buying spare parts retail is also inevitably going to be more expensive than the bulk cost of those parts as sold integrated into a completed product because the supply chain is more complex.

[@cooper1095]

no heat on back cover and screen? ur playing a dangerous game. no? i still wouldnt risk it without heat

[@hamzaaqiqi5573]

You didnt give it a score. Isnt that a thing anymore?

[@williamsanborn9195]

It is a thing still, it’s just not as common as it used to be. I don’t remember the last device they scored. But I do remember that it was a “preliminary” score because at the time of recording, there were no spare parts for it.

[@lucek333]

Well hello there

[@samuzamu]

I'm not like other foldables...

[@raymondhacks]

Thanks for following the provided manual by google this time, fascinating to see that gap between texbook and practice!

[@Mohamedkrami]

❤❤❤

[@코카콜라-i1d]

Why don't you sell it in Japan?

[@karni60]

Go Team Pixel 🎉❤🎉❤🎉

[@N1lav]

Hey iFixit, do your parts ship to India?

[@warriorplutotrent3827]

Yes the inner screen isnt serviceable for you😂😂😂looks like you didnt have patience to remove it correctly.

[@EricGonzalez-z6y]

Nikolaus Street

[@CULatte]

Was going upgrade my little bro from a Pixel 6 to a 9 for his bday. Might splurge a bit and surprise him with the Fold after seeing this, even just for the fun of messing around inside when inevitably he hands it back to me when I upgrade him in the future. Having a lot of fun inside the hardware and software of the Note 10 I got when I upgraded him to the Pixel 6 a few years ago.

[@ericbin5159]

比华为mate XT精致100万倍

[@defnotatroll]

ifixit indirectly advertising a load of apple products in their videos is just hilarious. sleeping with the devil

[@ShahanJagus]

Apple. I'm looking at you. Fix your phones internals. Especially fix your Mac internals. I don't care if it's pretty it needs to be functional and repairable. Not like staring at Aliens. Anyways, great video. Good to know Google is doing things right for the small minority who will buy this phone. More power to ya.