Windows 10 related Mobile Devices and Apps | Mobile O.S's => All Surface Devices | Surface Pro | Laptop | Studio => Topic started by: javajolt on September 30, 2020, 11:26:59 PM
Title: The Surface Duo torn to shreds, reveals interesting hinge
Post by: javajolt on September 30, 2020, 11:26:59 PM
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: