Pixel 8 Pro teardown exposes its temperature sensor and a sticky battery setup

iFixit’s Shahram Mokhtari begins by eradicating the Pixel 8 Pro’s display screen utilizing a heating mat, a clamp, and a decide. After disconnecting the show from the machine, Mokhtari folds again the 5G mmWave antenna cable and unscrews the primary body. From there, Mokhtari makes an attempt to take away the 5,050mAh battery by pulling on the plastic tabs beneath the element.

However, Mokhtari runs into the same issue as PBKreviews, the YouTube channel that tore down the Pixel 8. Both iFixit and PBKreviews ended up loosening the battery’s adhesive utilizing isopropyl alcohol as a substitute. Once that’s completed, Mokhtari dismantles the Pixel 8 Pro’s digicam array, revealing the 50MP essential digicam, 48MP ultrawide lens, and the 48MP telescopic lens.

Finally, we get a have a look at the built-in thermometer that’s unique to the Pixel 8 Pro. Mokhtari gives a brilliant zoomed-in have a look at the element… nevertheless it doesn’t appear like a lot apart from 4 round sensors. When the cellphone is definitely put collectively, yow will discover the temperature sensor throughout the digicam bar on the again of the machine. It’s imagined to offer you correct temperature readings of surfaces, with physique temperature readings awaiting FDA approval.

Unlike the iPhone 15, Mokhtari notes that the parts on the Pixel 8 Pro aren’t software-locked, which implies you aren’t compelled to buy new parts straight from Google. Google can be promising seven years of Android updates for the Pixel 8 and eight Pro. However, Google continues to be limiting sure options, similar to Night Sight and Zoom Enhance, to the Pixel 8 Pro, which, as my colleague Sean Hollister factors out, makes that promise imply a bit much less.