A Phone you can SHAVE with?! - Durability Test

So today we have a weird one...something I saw on the Unbox Therapy channel a while ago. It has to be one of the strangest

phone

s I've ever seen, but surprisingly it only cost me $35 on eBay. A self-proclaimed dust-proof, shock-proof, water-resistant, dual-SIM mobile

phone

with a built-in

shave

r. Yes. Like the kind of razor you would

shave

your face with. In the box you even get one of those little bristle cleaners for the foil head. I'll be

test

ing all of these features, if they're ever activated, next to a regular razor blade from Dollar Shave Club, which is sponsoring this video, all in the name of science, of course.

Let us begin. Turns out the phone wasn't dead right out of the box. The phone has a huge, old-school removable 3800 milliamp hour battery that has a bit of tape over the battery contacts. And once I got that tape out, everything started working. We do

durability

test

ing here on my channel to make sure... ...to... make sure manufacturers are providing us with quality, durable products. And that includes this Frankenstein monstrosity of a cell phone shaver. Let's see what this thing is made of, starting with the screen. I have a set of Mohs spikes that visibly show us what the screen is made of.

The glass is level 6. A diamond screen would be level 10. But since this unique machine is only $30 on eBay, the screen is plastic, scratching at a level 3 with deeper grooves at a level 4. It has the flashlight brighter. Although I have seen it once on a phone. So if you've ever wanted to call your grandma while shaving in the dark, this phone is for you. The front buttons are painted plastic, something like we'd expect to find at the lower end of the quality scale. An example of a high-end plastic button would be the buttons built into the Nintendo Switch.

But we're not just here for the buttons. Let's shave with the razor. The side buttons are made of plastic. It seems to be a recurring theme on this phone. The back panel is also made of plastic. The central logo has more of a transparent rubber on top. The flashlight on the top of the phone has a plastic lens that is thin and normal. However, the camera lens is also plastic. It's a bold move. That little piece of plastic protects the 0.3 megapixel camera, so it's pretty safe to say that quality images weren't the first priority on this flashlight shaver that makes phone calls.

The small flap at the bottom protects the micro USB and full-size USB slot, and it hasn't stayed closed since I unpacked this. So I think that waterproof claim is completely false. However, it will be nice to use that full-size USB slot to charge other accessories. It is interesting that the side switch dedicated to the shaver does not have a safety lock. I imagine this shaver randomly going off in your pocket will be a real problem... although still more useful than Bixby. Let's give this thing a chance to shave. You might be wondering why this grown man is shaving his arm with a cell phone, and you're right.

This is an incredibly strange situation. I think maybe we should delete your search history and never talk about this again. But if I'm being completely honest, this is the best shave I've ever gotten with a cell phone. 10 out of 10. I'm legitimately surprised it works. Although fair is fair. Let's see what a real razor can do. Dollar Shave Club has this starter box that they ship for $5 with free shipping. It has all kinds of delicacies. They even have things like toothpaste and hair styling products, for those of you who have hair, that you can add to the kit later.

Not just razors. And the best thing is that there are no contracts, so if being clean isn't your thing, you can quit whenever you want. Not bad at all for only $5. Replacement blades ship for just a few dollars a month after the first batch and I'll leave a link in the description. The shaver is as efficient, if not more, than the phone shaver. And it won't explode uncomfortably in your pocket. Get your own $5 kit with a link in the description or visit dollarshaveclub.com/JerryRig. It's pretty easy. Thanks to Dollar Shave Club for sponsoring this video.

Let's finish the

durability

test and see how this shaver phone works from the inside. One of the biggest flaws of this phone is the lack of games. There is no Snake game, which is a deal breaker for me. The 2.6-inch screen is covered by that thick layer of plastic so that the heat from my lighter doesn't penetrate the screen below. But we can see it melting the outer plastic. It lasted about 18 seconds before becoming a molten mess. Good to know if you're shaving outside by a campfire. Structurally, if it looks like a brick and feels like a brick, there's a good chance it actually is a brick.

And that is, in fact, the case with this random conglomerate of devices. The phone shaver is surprisingly sturdy. However, I still have major doubts about the waterproof claims, as there is no real IP rating and the back panel and bottom flap still open on their own. So maybe don't get this wet while you shave... you could lose your $30 investment. I vote for opening it and seeing how the shaver works from the inside. It's actually quite simple with 2 screws holding the bottom, 4 invisible screws holding each of the gold metal side rails, and 2 more Phillips head screws on the top.

There's one last little bit protecting the battery case, and then the whole phone can start to open up. The problem when opening this phone is that the screen is semi-clipped to the front casing and since there are no Lego connections holding the screen to the motherboard, I destroyed the entire ribbon cable soldered between the two. Kind of like we saw on the world's smallest cell phone, except I didn't break it. The motherboard has the silver grounding tape all over it, but once it's removed we get our first look at the circular vibration motor and the even larger subwoofer speaker.

Remember that catchy little jingle that played when I turned on the phone? This speaker is probably the largest I have seen inside a mobile phone. The shaver motor, which is slightly larger than the Nex S's front camera motor, is soldered directly to the main board. There are no Lego connectors anywhere inside this phone, but there is an aluminum heat sink on the back of the LED flashlight diode. The thing is so powerful and shiny that it needs its own mini heat dissipation system, which is actually pretty cool. Thumbs up for that. Let's see how the shaver part works.

The top circular metal sheets come off allowing the interior to be clean. But under those triangular pins is another trapdoor with huge white circular gears. The large motor inside spins its unique gear, which in turn spins the two larger gears attached to the bottom of each of those silver triangular posts. Which then rotates the shaving mechanism beneath the circular metal blades. Pretty bright. We can take a closer look at the bottom of those sheets. You can see that the gaps in the aluminum foil are big enough to let hair through, but not big enough that the little twisted pieces of metal can catch on your skin.

The same basic principle applies to all shavers, it's very interesting to see it here on a mobile phone. I would put it all back together, but someone accidentally ripped off the screen and destroyed the tapes. So right now he's kind of incapacitated. However, it is still a super interesting phone. Get your own $5 shaving kit from Dollar Shave Club using my code and link in the description. With free shipping, it's even cheaper than your local supermarket. Would you ever use a phone like this? Let me know in the comments and then come hang out with me on Twitter and Instagram.

Thanks so much for looking. See you.