The Edge 50 Pro from Motorola was first revealed in India at the beginning of this month, and it was finally made public worldwide last week. It's an upper-midrange smartphone with an intriguing back design that runs on the Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 SoC.
Thanks to YouTube channel PBKreviews, we can now take a closer look at the Edge 50 Pro as they have already completed a comprehensive video disassembly and reassembly, which is embedded below for your viewing pleasure.
As usual, to begin, you'll need to use a heat gun or hairdryer to soften the glue and remove the back plate, which is in this case the extremely distinctive Moonlight Pearl colorway created by the Italian brand Mazzucchelli.
Many screws need to be removed after removing the back plate before we can access the mainboard and secondary board. To aid in heat dissipation, large graphite films can be found everywhere. We get a close-up look at the cameras, which are located on the main board. The selfie camera, a lot of graphite film, copper tape, and thermal paste covering the chipset are all visible on the opposite side.
The process of disassembly also enables us to examine a number of parts, including the vibrator motor, the bottom speaker, the SIM reader board, the hardware port board with the USB-C port and microphone (which is shielded from inadvertent pinching by the SIM ejector tool), and the large copper vapour chamber.
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Ultimately, the Edge 50 Pro's reparability score was 5.5 out of 10, which isn't very good—a score of 10 would indicate that something is most reparable, and the Edge 50 Pro is far from that. It's not great that the battery doesn't have pull tabs for easy removal, and it's not ideal that replacing the side buttons requires taking off the screen.
The phone received a score of 1 out of 2 for organization and repair time, 0.5 out of 2 for screen replacement ease, another 0.5 out of 2 for battery replacement ease, 1.5 out of 2 for other part replacement ease, including the USB-C port, and 2 out of 2 for finding replacement parts.
