{"id":90191,"date":"2022-10-07T19:41:56","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T19:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/pixel-7-pro-teardown-shows-better-cooling-cleaner-layout-than-last-years-model\/"},"modified":"2022-10-07T19:41:56","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T19:41:56","slug":"pixel-7-pro-teardown-shows-better-cooling-cleaner-layout-than-last-years-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/pixel-7-pro-teardown-shows-better-cooling-cleaner-layout-than-last-years-model\/","title":{"rendered":"Pixel 7 Pro teardown shows better cooling, cleaner layout than last year&#8217;s model"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<aside id=\"social-left\" class=\"social-left\" aria-label=\"Read the comments or share this article\">\n<\/aside>\n<p><!-- cache hit 810:single\/related:fd8f7faf25ea3098783e698a959ffa5e --><!-- empty --><\/p>\n<div class=\"gallery shortcode-gallery gallery-wide\">\n<ul>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/8-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/8.jpg\" data-responsive=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/8-980x1082.jpg 1080, https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/8-1440x1590.jpg 2560\" data-sub-html=\"#caption-1888031\">\n<figure style=\"height:1082px;\"><figcaption id=\"caption-1888031\">\n                  <span class=\"icon caption-arrow icon-drop-indicator\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                      The Pixel 7 Pro innards (bottom) look a lot neater than those of the Pixel 6 Pro (top).  The graphite thermal tape (the shiny black stuff on the Pixel 6, the matte black sticker on the Pixel 7) has a larger surface area over the hot parts of the Pixel 7.                    <\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/9-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/9.jpg\" data-responsive=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/9-980x1082.jpg 1080, https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/9-1440x1590.jpg 2560\" data-sub-html=\"#caption-1888032\">\n<figure style=\"height:1082px;\"><figcaption id=\"caption-1888032\">\n                  <span class=\"icon caption-arrow icon-drop-indicator\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                      The Pixel 6 thermal tape was cut to go around this mmWave antenna wire, but the wire has been rerouted on the Pixel 7 and goes around the perimeter of the battery now.                     <\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/chrome_K5wW7IEuj7-150x150.png\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/chrome_K5wW7IEuj7.png\" data-responsive=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/chrome_K5wW7IEuj7-980x551.png 1080, https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/chrome_K5wW7IEuj7-1440x810.png 2560\" data-sub-html=\"#caption-1888038\">\n<figure style=\"height:1082px;\"><figcaption id=\"caption-1888038\">\n                  <span class=\"icon caption-arrow icon-drop-indicator\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                      The back of the screen is a big, copper heatsink.                     <\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/chrome_blk8lvPJQF-150x150.png\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/chrome_blk8lvPJQF.png\" data-responsive=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/chrome_blk8lvPJQF-980x551.png 1080, https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/chrome_blk8lvPJQF-1440x810.png 2560\" data-sub-html=\"#caption-1888039\">\n<figure style=\"height:1082px;\"><figcaption id=\"caption-1888039\">\n                  <span class=\"icon caption-arrow icon-drop-indicator\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                      the motherboard.                     <\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<p>The Pixel 7 is still on its way, but that isn&#8217;t stopping the Internet from tearing it down already.  In what&#8217;s becoming a tradition, PBK Reviews is the first to rip apart the device, specifically the Pixel 7 Pro.  Now we can do some fun comparisons between this teardown and last year&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>Just as it looks on the outside, the Pixel 7 Pro is pretty close to the Pixel 6 Pro, but you can spot some refinements.  Google has done a much neater job with the graphite thermal tape this year.  The Pixel 6 Pro had three different sections of thermal tape, but there&#8217;s now one monolithic block of graphite covering the cameras, SoC, and battery.<\/p>\n<p>On the Pixel 6, the graphite sticker had to be multiple parts because Google didn&#8217;t want to cover up the mmWave antenna wire, which last year ran overtop of the battery.  On the Pixel 7 Pro, the mmWave antenna cable is way longer and runs around the perimeter of the battery under the metal mid-frame.  With no cable in the way, the thermal tape can have a way larger surface area overtop of the battery, camera, and SoC.  Google removed some thermal tape that was previously close to the USB-C port, but with the process node reduction and more tape concentrated around the SoC, this should hopefully lead to a cooler phone.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad_wrapper\" aria-label=\"In Content advertisement\">\n    <span class=\"ad_notice\">Advertisement <\/span>    <\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<figure class=\"image shortcode-img full-width\" style=\"width:980px\"><figcaption class=\"caption\">\n<div class=\"caption-text\">enlarge <span class=\"sep\">\/<\/span> Google also shared this picture of the Pixel 7&#8217;s aluminum body.<\/div>\n<p>Google<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It would probably be better to have no mmWave antenna at all because mmWave barely exists anywhere and seems like an overhyped, dead-end technology.  Even if you&#8217;re pro-mmWave (I guess that would make you the CEO of Verizon?), the Pixel 7 Pro has only one antenna on top of the phone.  Other phones, like the Galaxy S22 Ultra, have a better shot of picking up a signal with two mmWave antennas on either side of the device.  Part of the laughable infeasibility of mmWave is that your hand easily blocks the signal, so while the Pixel 7 might have a clear line-of-sight in portrait mode, mmWave in landscape on the Pixel 7 would require some awkward hand positioning.  Aren&#8217;t high-bandwidth mmWave applications mainly for media, though?  Shouldn&#8217;t landscape be preferred?  We should just stop including mmWave altogether.<\/p>\n<p>As for reparability, the front screen pops off first, which makes a screen replacement a one-step process: &#8220;fight with the adhesive.&#8221;  PBK Reviews could not get the back glass off, so it sounds like you&#8217;d have to replace the entire metal frame if the back glass shatters.  The USB-C port is soldered onto the main board, which would make a broken charging port a costly fix.  The battery has pull tabs, but they still won&#8217;t work without soaking the battery adhesive in alcohol first.  It&#8217;s a mixed bag.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"video\">\n<p><div class=\"ast-oembed-container\" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Google Pixel 7 Pro Disassembly Teardown Repair Video Review\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GyHKRW55T9M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p><em>Listing image by PBK Reviews \/ Ron Amadeo<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pixel 7 Pro innards (bottom) look a lot neater than those of the Pixel 6 Pro (top). The graphite thermal tape (the shiny black stuff on the Pixel 6, the matte black sticker on the Pixel 7) has a larger surface area over the hot parts of the Pixel 7. The Pixel 6 thermal &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/pixel-7-pro-teardown-shows-better-cooling-cleaner-layout-than-last-years-model\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pixel 7 Pro teardown shows better cooling, cleaner layout than last year&#8217;s model<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":117102,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/camera-comparison-pixel-7-pro-vs-iphone-14-pro-max\/","url_meta":{"origin":90191,"position":0},"title":"Camera Comparison: Pixel 7 Pro vs.  iPhone 14 Pro Max","date":"November 3, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Google in October launched the Pixel 7 Pro, its newest high-end flagship smartphone. 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