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Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 teardown shows rigid, repair-friendly design

I can see the reasoning for incorporating the display into an overal front panel assembly. Rigidity, simpler manufacture, quick repair in time that replaces all the areas of user wear & tear whilst ensuring seal & rigidity integrity to factory standards, Hopefully this will offset the increased cost of the extra plastic bits over a bare panel type assembly repair.

Question, why was thermal staking chosen in preference to bonding to secure display panel ? Wouldn't the latter method do it, with fewer , simpler components ,less production processes, give it greater rigidity & toughness, with stress loads being fed via the shortest path to & from the panel, evenly along its mounting faces (as opposed to point contacts), & lastly it would produce a better seal against external contaminents too!

There must be some good reason, as the bonding method would not compromise fit, form & function of the front panel assembly, and may even increase longevity & reliability, (not all modularisations & bonding in components exercises should be considered eco-hostile or just there to promote planned obsolescence).
My guess is that they are just doing what worked before on their existing & earlier designs, and time/cost constraints prohibited its introduction.

Seeing that replacing a lcd panel seems to involve a complete strip down, can you advise to times todo this! (I cannot view the video to see if that can be measured there & Im too new to this sport to make other than a rough guess of 1hr for complete lcd replacement?? ). Time & cost of parts will obviously dictate repair friendleness/viability, and possibily make its failure rate even more crucial.


Look,not once did I mention Apple (oops!)

Bill, it is a great disappointment that no one appears to post on your interesting tear-down series. Responses to blogs on Techrepublic appear increasingly generated by fan boy-ism, rather than in offering constructive criticism & discussion of the engineering hardware solutions that you concisely illustrate. My response above, is an appreciation of your work & attempt to stimulate interest of other posters, sorry to have failed here. Perhaps I should have compared Samsungs Notes Display panel being permanently fastened into a front assembly unit, is not that different in principle to Apple's superior method of bonding the Retina panel into the lid of the Mac Book Pro & of equal limited Eco Unfriendliness as previously stated above, (As long as Apple's exchange costs are reasonable!)
Lastly & for the record, I do admit that I too contribute in the product polarized areas & do enjoy the fun of the ensuing lively debate, but only when the blog clearly leads to a discussion there.
Does one really have to deride certain companies in order to attract interest here?

wtf is
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Wacom I can guess but any better detail on what these are ? And if you don't know why include them....

Keep these series coming, find this stuff fascinating. Did you have any dramas re-assembling? I would give this a go if I wasn't too scared of killing my device

Bill, that's a great article.
Its not very clear from the pictures, can the memory be upgraded? Or its soldered onto the mobo?