Pixel 5 teardown shows off the guts of Google’s latest flagship

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  The Pixel 5 in black. [credit: Google ]

The first Pixel 5 teardown to hit the Internet is from PBKReviews, which gives us a fun look at the guts of Google's latest flagship smartphone.

There is a lot about the Pixel 5 construction that is pretty different. The first is the screen retention technique, which uses both glue and rectangular clips. You'll need to both heat the phone up and pry out all the little tabs—hopefully without breaking them—in order to get at the inside of the phone. Compared with an iPhone 12, which uses glue and two screws at the bottom of the phone, or a Samsung phone, which is all glue, this is certainly unique. Whatever Google's plan was for holding the screen on, it doesn't seem to be working very well, as there are already reports of uneven gaps forming between the phone's frame and display.

The next Pixel oddity is the lack of a traditional earpiece. Instead, the phone has an under-display speaker toward the top of the display. It serves double-duty as the "stereo" speaker along with the normal speaker on the bottom of the phone. Under-display earpieces vibrate the display to play sound but usually sound pretty tinny.

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