Google Pixel 5 secrets revealed in new teardown video

Google Pixel five secrets revealed in new teardown video

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Wireless charging has been around for a while, but information technology's never mixed that well with metal telephone casings. That's for obvious reasons related to how well metal conducts electricity.

The Pixel 5, however, seems to offering both wireless charging and a unibody design made from aluminum. Merely how? A new teardown has merely revealed those secrets.

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The teardown comes from PBKReviews, and it seems the mystery isn't really much of a mystery at all. It turns out that the Pixel 5 doesn't actually have an uninterrupted metallic trounce, despite the fact it looks like it does.

The teardown reveals that there's a cutout in the middle of the Pixel 5's aluminium chassis, while the bio-resin plastic on the exterior of the phone but makes it await similar a fully-uninterrupted surface. That way the inductive charging coils can do their thing, without a metal shell affecting performance.

This sort of thing isn't unheard of, so this is hardly unique to the Pixel 5, but it does bear witness how phone-makers tin take a "all-time of both" approach to aluminum shells and wireless charging.

The teardown also reveals a number of other secrets about the Pixel five'southward pattern. Like how the mmWave 5G antennae have been moved upwardly to the top edge by the volume buttons, and a graphite film to help dissipate rut from the camera and battery.

There are also clips within that should do a amend task of keeping the screen attached. That ways that if the gum belongings the screen to the phone fails — as has been happening with the Pixel 4'south back glass — the clips should keep it in place.

iFixit's Ten-ray shots likewise noted that the Pixel 5 uses a logic lath similar the one on the Pixel iv, which limits the amount of room within the telephone. So no matter how much Google shifts things around, there are going to be issues related to adding a larger battery and other of import pieces.

Tom is the Tom's Guide'southward Automotive Editor, which means he tin ordinarily be institute knee deep in stats the latest and all-time electrical cars, or checking out some sort of driving gadget. It's long way from his days as editor of Gizmodo Uk, when pretty much everything was on the table. He's usually found trying to clasp another behemothic Lego gear up onto the shelf, draining very large cups of coffee, or complaining that Ikea won't let him purchase the stuff he really needs online.