Apple By Lee Mathews Sep. 19, 2014 1:29 pm
Because you always need further confirmation that things like polished stone and concrete do not, in fact, make a great landing surface for your new electronics, intrepid testers have begun drop-testing the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus. The results? Well, you’d best watch the videos before deciding.
First up is PhoneBuff’s David Rahimi* — who’s using a platform with bubble levels to ensure precise drops. Science-y, indeed, though maybe not all that necessary. It’s not as though you’re ever going to position your phone perfectly prior to accidentally dropping it, but hey, this is all done in the name of YouTube edutainment.
The iPhone 6 fares incredibly well. Apart from a few minor scuffs and scratches around the outside, it’s pretty much unscathed. The 4.7-inch screen is completely intact, and let’s face it… that’s the first thing most owners are going to check for damage when they pick their phone back up after dropping it.
The 6 plus didn’t prove to be as durable. One hard landing on the corner and the display shattered from edge to edge. Another fall and the iPhone 6 plus is bursting at the seams. Interestingly enough, that didn’t happen in another drop test that’s been posted to YouTube by Android Authority:
In their test, both the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus survived with minimal damage: a ding here, a scratch there. The screens both look pretty much perfect, and they’re fully functional. There is one curiosity, though. At around the 3:48 mark when the 6 Plus is dropped on its face, you can see what looks like the screen separating from the phone’s aluminum chassis in the bottom corner. When the phone is picked up, however, it’s nice and flush again.
Maybe it snapped back into place on its own when it was picked up, maybe it was a bit of crafty editing. Either way, the test seems to show that both the iPhone 6 and 6 plus are durable phones.
Ultimately, however, what these videos prove is that hard things and $700 smartphones are not good friends, and you should avoid letting them play together — regardless of whether you have a bubble level on you or not. Just about any phone out there might survive one drop and be devastated by the next. There are some exceptions, obviously.
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First up is PhoneBuff’s David Rahimi* — who’s using a platform with bubble levels to ensure precise drops. Science-y, indeed, though maybe not all that necessary. It’s not as though you’re ever going to position your phone perfectly prior to accidentally dropping it, but hey, this is all done in the name of YouTube edutainment.
The iPhone 6 fares incredibly well. Apart from a few minor scuffs and scratches around the outside, it’s pretty much unscathed. The 4.7-inch screen is completely intact, and let’s face it… that’s the first thing most owners are going to check for damage when they pick their phone back up after dropping it.
The 6 plus didn’t prove to be as durable. One hard landing on the corner and the display shattered from edge to edge. Another fall and the iPhone 6 plus is bursting at the seams. Interestingly enough, that didn’t happen in another drop test that’s been posted to YouTube by Android Authority:
In their test, both the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus survived with minimal damage: a ding here, a scratch there. The screens both look pretty much perfect, and they’re fully functional. There is one curiosity, though. At around the 3:48 mark when the 6 Plus is dropped on its face, you can see what looks like the screen separating from the phone’s aluminum chassis in the bottom corner. When the phone is picked up, however, it’s nice and flush again.
Maybe it snapped back into place on its own when it was picked up, maybe it was a bit of crafty editing. Either way, the test seems to show that both the iPhone 6 and 6 plus are durable phones.
Ultimately, however, what these videos prove is that hard things and $700 smartphones are not good friends, and you should avoid letting them play together — regardless of whether you have a bubble level on you or not. Just about any phone out there might survive one drop and be devastated by the next. There are some exceptions, obviously.
Now read: Apple is editing the protruding iPhone 6 camera out of photos
More...
