OnePlus is known for adding up a lot of flagship-phone features while subtracting the flagship-phone price, and the 6's specs don't disappoint:

6.28” Samsung-made AMOLED display with 2280 x 1080 resolution (402 ppi) and 2.5D Gorilla Glass 5

Octa-core, 64-bit Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 processor with 6 GB or 8 GB LPDDR4X RAM

Dual main camera with 16 MP (ƒ/1.7 with OIS) and 20 MP (ƒ/1.7) modules; 16 MP (ƒ/2.0) selfie camera

64 GB, 128 GB, or 256 GB built-in storage

USB Type-C and 3.5 mm audio ports

OxygenOS based on Android Oreo 8.1

Around back we have a camera bump that looks a tad Apple-like, paired with a fingerprint sensor in a layout and location reminiscent of other Android flagships.

NFC in the camera you say? Thanks for the tip—we'll keep an eye out for that during the following "unauthorized disassembly."

On the bottom: headphone jack (yay!) and USB Type-C.

No need to go in blind when you have X-ray vision—our friends at Creative Electron give us an overview of this smartphone's terrain.

Everything looks pretty standard—except for the huge sliding mechanism for the alert slider! If we didn't know any better we'd have guessed it was some kind of linear actuator.

Satisfied with our virtual foray into the phone, we turn to the SIM card tray and find the first evidence of the OnePlus 6's rumored water resistance—an integrated rubber gasket.

Android phone with a glass back? Gone is the classic OnePlus metal casing! But we've seen this before...

...and we have a well-tested solution. The heat gun softens things up and the iSclack and opening pick take care of the rest.

We lift the back in trepidation, waiting for the familiar tug of a fingerprint sensor cable.

But we're pleasantly surprised—the OnePlus 6 comes with a cable long enough to completely remove the back without worrying about tearing the cable.

We pop off a nice red bracket to free that lengthy fingerprint sensor cable, and spy the NFC antenna OnePlus so graciously pointed out.

The friendly green tab on this relatively accessible battery says, "由此拉起可拆出电池". This translates to "Pull up and out to remove the battery."

Despite inconsistent labeling, this battery should be consistently easy to remove with that pull tab—it's only lightly adhered in place. Here OnePlus decidedly one-ups its competition.

However, the battery falls behind its peers in capacity, with 12.70 Wh—slightly under the Galaxy S9+ (13.48 Wh) and Google Pixel 2 XL (13.6 Wh).

Nine Phillips screws bite the dust and the plastic antenna frame doesn't budge. But a secret tenth screw behind a liquid damage indicator grants access.

Under the plastic midframe, we get up-close and personal with that oversized slider mechanism.

The slider button moves a hefty metal plunger, which flips a mechanical switch soldered to the motherboard. The X-ray image provides an even better view.

Having removed all the connectors tethering the motherboard to the phone, we slide it free and take a look at what chips it holds:

Samsung K3UH7H70MM-AGCJ 8 GB LPDDR4X DRAM (layered over Qualcomm Snapdragon 845)

Samsung KLUDG4U1EA-B0C1 128 GB embedded universal flash storage

Qualcomm WCD9341 Aqstic Audio Codec

Qualcomm QDM3620, QDM3670, QDM3671 Diversity Receive Modules

NXP Q3303 NFC Controller

Qualcomm PMI8998 PMIC

Maxim Integrated MAX98928 audio amplifier

Als nächstes drehen wir das Board um und sehen uns den Rest seiner Chips an:

Qualcomm WCN3990 2x2 802.11ac Wi-Fi mit MU-MIMO-Begleiter

Qualcomm SDR845 RF-Transceiver

Qualcomm PM8005 PMIC

Qualcomm PM845 (wahrscheinlich PMIC)

Skyworks 78160-11 Leistungsverstärkungsmodul

AVAGO AFEM-9046

AVAGO AFEM-9036

IC Identification, pt. 2:

Skyworks SKY85814-11 WiFi dual-band 802.11ac front-end module

Qualcomm QET4100 envelope tracker

STMicroelectronics STM8S003F3 8-bit Microcontroller w/ 8 Kb flash

Bosch Sensortec BMI160 3-axis accelerometer/gyroscope

Texas Instruments TPS65633B AMOLED display power supply

Texas Instruments TXS0104E 4-bit bidirectional voltage-level translator

Knowles MEMS microphone

IC Identification, pt. 3:

Maxim Integrated MAX14743 dual SPDT analog switch

ON Semiconductor FSUSB42UMX and NL3S2223 2-port 480 Mbps USB 2.0 analog switch

ON Semiconductor FPF2280 OVP load switch

Texas Instruments LP5907SNX-2.8 250 mA LDO regulator

ON Semiconductor NCP114AMX300TCG and NCP114AMX180TxG 150 mA LDO regulator

ON Semiconductor NCP140AMXD330TCG 300 mA LDO regulator

ON Semiconductor DC-DC Converter

Before we leave the board, let's talk waterproofing. We found some! There are black silicone seals surrounding all these flex cable sockets—as we found previously on the OnePlus 5, and just like on every iPhone since the 6s.

Moving down to the other end, under the single loudspeaker assembly, we find more gaskets surrounding the speaker grille, USB Type-C port, and nicely modular headphone jack.

Let's circle back and talk cameras for a moment.

Alongside it resides the 20 MP Sony IMX 376K sensor, returning from the earlier OnePlus 5T. The selfie cam gets the 16 MP IMX 371, which has been in circulation since the OnePlus 5 days.

Returning to the bottom edge, we flip out this little daughterboard and survey what's left in the chassis.

That OLED panel is firmly glued in place—it probably won't come out undamaged. You'll likely only be removing a broken display of course, but the procedure for doing so sure isn't repair-friendly.

That's a wrap! If we had one word to describe the sheer number of pieces we pulled from this phone, it would be twelve.

While we're on the subject of hard numbers, let's give this phone a repairability score.