Now that we've worked our way around the exterior, it's time to head inside.

Experience tells us that a little suction and cutting is all that's required to coax the display open, but when that doesn't work we bring out the big (heat) guns.

It looks like the Pixel 3 XL still uses foam adhesive, but it's far more tenacious than the repair-friendly stuff we saw last year.

We pull out the trusty iSclack, expecting to separate the display assembly, but the rear cover yields first!

This whole thing is starting to remind us less of the Pixel 3's predecessor, and more of its notoriously sticky contemporary.