On March 19, vivo held a product conference in Sanya and officially launched its new product – vivo X27. The device comes with three rear cameras along with a pop-up front camera. Besides, it features a 6.39-inch Super AMOLED display with the screen ratio of 19.5: 9.
Now it’s time to see the workmanship and internal structure of this eye-catching full screen smartphone.
Step 1 Remove the back cover
First of all, remove the SIM card tray.
Then remove the back case. It is not fixed to the phone body by screws but glue. Heat the back cover with a hair drier from 3 to 5 minutes evenly.
Use a sucker to separate the back case from the phone body.
Step 2 Remove the motherboard
After taking out the back cover, the phone’s internal structure can be seen. It adopts a classic three-stage design. There are lots of screws on the cover of the motherboard.
Take out thirteen screws, and the racket can be removed.
Now we can see the motherboard, triple rear cameras, and spring-loaded motor. Remove four screws with the screwdriver.
To take out the motherboard, we need to disconnect the cable first. The vivo X27 has a complicated internal design. As a result, there are lots of cables inside. To protect its internal structure, we should disconnect the cable of the battery first before removing the cable of the two BTBs.
Next, disconnect the cable of the front selfie, ultra wide-angle camera, and main camera.
Take out the cable of the in-depth camera and flash.
Now remove the cable of the 3.5mm earphone. The X27 also features the 3.5mm headphone.
Before taking out the motherboard, we also need to disconnect the black, white and blue three coaxial cables.
As for the white one, its two ends need to be disconnected.
The motherboard can be removed. The X27 doesn’t have a large-size motherboard. To get a better heat dissipation effect, the phone applies lots of thermal grease to it.
Step 3 Remove the battery
It is easy to take out the battery. All you need to do is to lift up the handle.
Even though the teardown process is simple, we do not recommend you remove the battery on your own. If you prefer to do it yourself, please do not use any sharp tools.
It sports a 4000mAh battery.
Step 4 Remove the cameras
Tear down the triple rear camera setup first. The setup has a good design. Take out the primary camera and ultra wide-angle camera.
Remove the flash and the in-depth third camera.
Among the three rear cameras, the 48MP main camera is the largest one in size. It uses a Sony IMX586 sensor whose physical aperture is F/1.79. The second is the ultra wide-angle 13MP camera, and its aperture is F/2.2. The smallest one is the 5MP in-depth camera.
Now we are going to take out the mysterious part- elevating front camera. Remove two screws.
Lift the racket up.
Take out the screw with the screwdriver.
Remove the screw.
Then tear down the stepper motor.
The motor is made by Nidec from Japan.
Use a pry to take out the front camera.
It features a 16MP selfie camera. And its stepper motor is different from the one the vivo NEX has. Technically speaking, the elevating camera moves faster than the vivo NEX’s.
Step 5 Remove the earphone, vibrator and 3.5mm port
As the earphone, vibrator and 3.5mm port adopt modular design, they can be easily taken out.
Step 6 remove the charge connector
Take out eight screws.
Remove the speaker racket.
The display cable is designed on the charge connector. It is connected to the motherboard above via the cable of BTB.
Disconnect the three BTB cables, a screen fingerprint reader cable, and a display cable.
Take out the blue coaxial cable on the back of the charge connector.
Remove another small charge connector.
Take out the waterproof silicone of the touch-screen FPC.
Step 7 Remove the screen
The vivo X27 comes with a 6.39-inch AMOLED screen from Samsung. Use a hair drier to heat the edges of the screen from five to eight minutes. We do not recommend the user change the screen on your own.
Separate the screen from the middle framework.
Step 8 remove the under-screen fingerprint reader
After removing the front screen, take out the under-screen fingerprint scanner.
This under-the-screen fingerprint reader achieves a faster unlocking speed than iQOO’s sixth-generation in-screen fingerprint scanner.
Summary
After the teardown process, we can see the vivo X27 has a complicated internal design, its triple rear camera setup and selfie camera in particular.