As with most phones, the screws are the first to go once we're inside. And our Essential Electronics Toolkit is here, ready and waiting to take them out.

Despite their other non-repair-friendly tendencies, one thing Galaxy phones always score points for are the standard Phillips #00 screws.

A few extremely tight midframe screws later, here's our first good look inside (in the visible-light spectrum, anyway).

Each phone gets its earpiece speaker mounted to the upper antenna assembly, which contains a dedicated speaker enclosure—that's a first! The speaker is the rectangular bit framed with a bright red gasket. It still fires through a channel in the midframe, much like it did on the Note10 and S20—but the new larger enclosures ought to boost audio quality a bit.

Both phones also get a rear-facing mic that piggybacks directly onto the back cover. Thankfully they connect via repair-friendly spring contacts, which is why we didn't encounter any booby traps opening these things up.