As we all know, ZTE has officially launched its foldable smartphone – the ZTE AXON M. The smartphone features two 5.2-inch 1,080p displays. The phone has good performance on sales in the market with its unique appearance design. Now, we will start the teardown of the ZTE AXON M to explore its internal structure.
First of all, remove the SIM card tray. The SIM card tray supports dual SIM cards.
Remove screws hidden under the plastic sheet.
Utilize the hexagonal screwdriver to remove the screws.
After removing all the screws, the back cover still can’t be separated from the phone body. Therefore, we need to use a clip to pry up the back cover.
Then slide a plastic pick to unlock the snaps.
After removing the back cover, the device’s internal structure can be seen.
Its internal structure adopts three-stage design. Some connectors are fixed by metal cover, while others by foam.
The back cover is covered by the graphite paster.
The smartphone’s four angles are thickened to improve hardness and protect internal components.
Remove two screws from the connector cover which is placed under the motherboard.
After removing the cover, the foam used to fix connector can be seen on the back cover.
Disconnect three connectors under the back cover including main display connector, the power connector, and the vice board connector.
Then, use the insulated pry to disconnect the connector of the button on the side and the connector of fingerprint scanning module.
The main camera is covered by heat dissipation copper which can improve the stability of the main camera’s normal work.
The phone features a F/1.8 aperture 20MP main camera which supports PDAF technology. After the test, we find that the main camera has good performance on bokeh effect.
Disconnect the connector of the secondary display. The connector uses unique soft material which can guarantee signal transformation even under frequent fold operation.
Then, we can separate the main board from the phone body.
The important chips on the front of the motherboard are protected by a metal shield. Some part of the motherboard doesn’t have adopted full space utilization.
The back motherboard evidently has better space utilization than the front of the motherboard does. Most chips on the back of the motherboard are covered by shield cover.
After removing the shield covers, we find that some chips which produce much heat are covered by heat conduction material to improve heat dissipation rate. The biggest chip is sealed with memory and processor to save space of the motherboard and make the memory has quicker responsive speed.
The biggest chip on the front of the motherboard is the 128GB flash memory from SanDisk.
The light distance sensor on the top adopts independent design so that the sensor can be easily changed. Use a clip to remove the sensor.
The flash on the top right of the phone body also adopts independent design.
Next, remove screws at the bottom.
Then remove the loudspeaker module.
Half of the loudspeaker is used to fix the connector and connect the cable.
Utilize the insulated pry to disconnect connectors at the bottom one by one.
Remove the PCB at the bottom.
Use a clip to take out the vibrator module, which is connected to PCB at the bottom via contact point.
The vibrator is supposed to be the linear vibrator with regard to its thickness.
We have finished the separation of the internal components on the top and bottom. The battery can be removed.
We use a pry to remove the battery.
The ZTE AXON M sports a 3,180mAh battery with the capacity of 12,33Wh. The battery supports QC3.0 technology. Its standard voltage is 3.85V.
The battery with high hardness is made from ATL.
The battery’s thickness is 4.63mm. It can be inferred that ZTE enlarges the battery’s capacity by thickening the battery.
Remove two screws from the secondary display.
It is not difficult to remove the secondary display. After removing two screws, we successfully take out the secondary display.
A metal base can be removed. Remove button components, and we can separate the fingerprint reader module on the side from the phone body.
Now, we have finished the teardown task on the ZTE AXON M.
Summary
In general, the ZTE AXON M not only has made a great breakthrough in its appearance design but also has good durability. The phone follows strict design on protection on connector and chip. But if the smartphone’s motherboard became smaller to leave more space to the battery, the phone will significantly improve its practicability.