The Teardown: Samsung Galaxy S7
Paula Dempsey · Engineering & Technology · 2016
JUST HOW innovative is Samsung's latest top-of-the-range Galaxy S7 smartphone? Muchhyped waterproofing aside, both the S7 and its curved-screen sister, the S7 Edge, are primarily performance plays. And once you look at the hardware innovation, it proves an impressive piece of engineering. The company itself has made much of the fact that the S7 uses liquid cooling, but this comes in the form of a well-established technique, the heat pipe. Albeit, according to iFixit's Teardown team, a tiny one that allows liquid to travel along it as vapour with a width of less than 0.5mm. Still, the S7 is not the first phone to use this technology even if it has been tremendously scaled down.