The Surface Duo torn to shreds, reveals interesting hinge

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A week ago JerryRigEverything performed their smartphone regular torture-test and the Surface Duo did surprisingly well.

Today however they performed a full teardown of the device, and given the super-thin construction of the handset, there was no coming back from the deconstruction.

With adhesive used very freely on the device is was definitely not designed to be user-serviceable, something one possibly need to bear in mind when purchasing it.

The teardown did, however, reveal some interesting detail about the hinge – it found that is unlikely to seize up due to minimal components, and showed how the data cable crosses in a gap inside the hinge end-caps using a free-floating bungle of wires:



See the full teardown below, which, given the ultimate fate of the handset, may not be for the fainthearted.



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