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are smartphones getting weaker?

Feb 27, 2020
Oh, you may have already seen a video I made comparing each Galaxy S smartphone, from simple plastic beginnings to aluminum and Gorilla Glass. Well, today we are answering an even bigger question: are these new flagship

smartphones

really stronger than the older ones, I also wanted to thank Invisible Shield for sponsoring this video, so we'll start with a scratch test. What I have here is a Mohs hardness kit that presents you with a bunch of pictures made of materials of different hardnesses. The idea is that if two materials interact, the one that is harder will scratch the one that is less hard, so we will go up the scale until each phone starts to scratch so we can measure the hardness of each device, so let's start with the hardness. level 2 a material called gypsum and this is quite simple, every smartphone is able to completely resist this at level 3 a material called calcite and this is where we start to see some damage on the Galaxy S 1 for example, this is what hard enough to cause slight scratches on the surface and this trend continues for all plastic phones here, from the s1 to the galaxy s5, after this, although on the s6 and beyond, absolutely nothing at all, it just slides, but as a point of reference, level 3 is also difficult. enough to scratch the infamous Nokia 3310.
are smartphones getting weaker
Now let's take this a little more seriously. I have designed a durability scale and each one will get a durability rating that will be maintained in all the tests that we do in this video and at the end we will compare the final scores to see if the phones are really

getting

weaker

. Level 4 is a material called fluorite which is now hard enough to damage the back of plastic phones and it doesn't matter at all what the texture is. the device is plastic then it will break and now you will see a durability score under each phone that number will keep increasing until we reach a level of hardness that damages it deeply and that's how many points each phone will get because from s1 to s5 They are all deeply damaged by the level 4 that you will get for durability points, but no more than that, it will all make sense as we go, plus the level 4 leaves a small mark on some of the glass devices, but nothing that won't can be erased.
are smartphones getting weaker

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Number five is the unusually named apatite which, as you've probably guessed, manages to cut through all plastic phones with ease the way I try. very little effort but still absolutely nothing on glass phones so up to level six author clays and I don't even need to tell you that plastics definitely didn't enjoy this material but what's also interesting is that glass ones now They are starting. However, to show signs of damage, it is very light damage and although it appears on the s6, s7 and the SAT, I couldn't scratch the s9 with this or the s tens, it would leave marks, but I could just erase them straight from level seven .
are smartphones getting weaker
This material you may be most familiar with is quartz and while it is hard enough to easily scratch even glass devices, it doesn't follow the deepest possible indentations, there is still some resistance from the material so I would still say that glass devices survived. level seven the same way plastics survived level three anyway level eight topaz completely changes this doesn't seem to matter what the material of the device is if it's plastic if it's glass it doesn't matter what generation of glass it is if it's Gorilla Glass 3 or Gorilla Glass 6, this thing just goes through them with minimal effort and forms deep indentations, so just to have a little fun at this point we can play around with level 9 and this is a good opportunity to see a little close up of how it looks.
are smartphones getting weaker
See the scratches in action anyway, before we start breaking things properly, it will be interesting to see if the scratch resistance on the front glass has actually improved and you will have noticed that we actually have two Galaxy S. dozens here, well, the Second it says you can equip it with an invisible glass fusion protector and I think it would be quite surprising how far they've gone to make sure people don't mess up the installation so you can give them the screen. a clean, dry and then place it on this installation bracket, you will also get a dust removal sticker to use at this stage and then once you have the screen protector you simply remove the first layer, take it down and it fits perfectly on their place every time thanks to the stand, slide a finger down to remove any air bubbles and then use the included tool to finish the job and it's fine, so the level 2 screen and scrape plaster does absolutely nothing to them.
The same goes for the level 3 III, it doesn't scratch the glass, but since the glass fusion protector on this s10 has impact resistant layers on top, they will scratch slightly, but that's already a step above the strong indentations that the built-in screen protector would have. Level 4 still doesn't leave permanent damage, but is where you start to see marks left on the screen that can be erased. Level 5 is similarly uneventful, but Level 6 is where you start to see light scratches on each Corning Gorilla Glass device. 1 on galaxy s 1 a Corning Gorilla Glass 6 on galaxy s 10 each of the 7 surface levels causes slightly deeper cuts a little more easily, but still not enough to completely break through this glass, as There is very permanent damage, although I change that to level 8, although this starts to feel a bit like an art class, like if your drawing on a sheet of paper the scratches happen very easily and are very noticeable, because each phone smart here has managed to resist a little up to hardness level 8, I have given them the eight points. for this screen scratch resistance test 9 is just for fun, really no phone resists this at all.
Well now it's time to grab a hammer and start destroying things, but as I'm doing this while taking out the phones, it hit me? something a bit unexpected, although all the plastic phones are fine, some of the glass devices had cracked, the back had broken because they were scratched and then put pressure on them when I was testing the screens, so on each of these devices I'm going to deduct some points for this depending on the severity of the damage, what made this even more interesting is that while the s6, s7 and s, the s9+S tens were completely fine and it turns out this is due to that the S line is when Samsung started.
Anyway, using thicker glass finally outside and I have a bit of setup on the table right now. The first six phones were broken. I couldn't get them all on the table at once. What I am going to do? Now I'm starting with the S-1 and working my way up, run the remaining four tests and then give the phone a rating out of 10 based on how well it has held up to each challenge. Absolutely nothing has been proven regarding s1. You could even make a stream out of it. The phone then performs a hammer test which is a light hit followed by a much harder hit and this again leaves nothing more than a small scratch.
Something that was requested last time I did a durability test was the hit on site and even this causes there is no structural damage at all and finally the reverse hammer hit the shrinkage, even though this is the most painful test, It only left a mark that is barely visible and the phone is completely usable so after those friendly crazy results it was quite fun to see that the s2 in an effort to make the phone much thinner has no end near the resistance level which Leah Swan did after bending it alone the phone practically becomes useless, the only saving grace is that the back panel is still unscathed in the hammer test where the light hammer doesn't really cause any more damage than has already been done, but the heavy one leaves a real mark, the side held up pretty well, and while the reverse hammer blow adds a decent amount of extra damage, remember the phone was already pretty broken.
In the first hammer test, the Galaxy S3 suffers from some slightly worrying creaks, but there is no noticeable damage when bent. The hammer test doesn't leave any particular features unusable and the screen doesn't appear too damaged aside from some minor surface scratches and side resistance. In particular, the reverse hammer blow is great on this phone, we all knew this was going to be painful. Brenda is a useless device, she didn't actually break the screen, she just added a permanent pink line across it and within two minutes, the s3 was stuck in the permanent boot loop, no, the galaxy s4 didn't get off to a good start, Ben's test alone clearly showed that Fleck saw a buzzing sound and a good portion of the screen disappeared completely, other than that, although you know that's the case.
The bad, it's good to see that the phone didn't suffer too much additional damage with the other tests I did and when the reverse Hammer test came around, although the cracking becomes much more evident, the screen that was still partially working, the Galaxy S5 looked completely fine. when I was doing the Ben test and when I was doing the hammer test, but this must have caused some kind of internal damage because with a hit to the side, although the edge itself was unharmed, it seems that the phone more or less fell apart. broke and this was summed up quite succinctly with the reverse hammer hitting most of the screen remnants that were still working before were no longer working afterwards.
I was very curious to try the Galaxy s6 as not only is it the first all-glass smartphone here, but also one of the ones that was quite hit by a bit of scratching and a bit of pressure, it actually held up reasonably well on Ben's test. I only noticed a slight crack which is a little worrying but other than that no noticeable damage however every subsequent test was just not good, even a light hit with a hammer test the first one called out a massive crack which spread across the entire front of the phone, you will see that the metal side edge put up some resistance, but because the glass on either side is already cracked and quite fragile, as it hits the side, it damages the front and back, then it's not entirely surprising that the reverse hammer blow completely totals this phone.
It's game over for s6, so quick recap of what we smashed so far. The Galaxy S one holds up remarkably well and the only notable damage is the scratches from the first test. The s2 is a complete disaster from the front, but the rear doesn't look that bad at all. However, the s3 was a notable improvement over that. While it is completely unusable in the state, the visible damage is much less. The s4 made me laugh when Samsung released this phone, they went on and on about how this was going to be their life partner and almost like it was calling from the grave.
The only thing you can see on the screen is that the s5 is in pretty good physical shape, but clearly something went wrong inside because there is no output to the screen, but when you see what happened to the s6, it makes everything Else Previous phones look like absolute tanks. This phone is super fragile with only 30 points of resistance. Well, you resorted to

getting

rid of those phones and replacing them with their more expensive and recent counterparts with a guest appearance from the Nokia 3310 because this is literally the device that the durability of the mobile phone is compared to, so I felt that if we were doing a test at this scale anyway we can't not include it in the galaxy s7 and when bending this phone I definitely heard a little creak which was never a good sign, it worked fine in the hammer test, nothing more than a couple of scratches and I was quite happy with the resistance of the sides, but the reverse hammer test really surpassed it.
I was a little surprised when I chose it. top and the screen was fully functional after this big crack at the top, also the back of the phone wasn't exactly thanking me at this stage, you may remember when the Galaxy s8 came out, it was definitely a durability concern, this It was the first time that even the standard variant of a phone had not only a curved back but also a curved front, which turns out people were right to worry whether it was a curve or a slight tap with the hammer, This is the device vulnerable to breaking completely.
A single test left a mark on this, the final test left another significant crater and the screen was unresponsive, but the positive news is that it was still pretty good and pretty smooth, but you want to see the destruction, look at the back of this phone, in fact. It was so bad that there were little pieces of glass all over the table, so I cleaned it well before bringing the s9, which I was really hoping for. It turns out that the thicker glass used here also helps when bending this foam. mega durable NoI couldn't hear anything 10 out of 10 I hit it with a hammer and also gave it very very little damage and hitting it from the side didn't do much to the side edge but because the glass was already weak in the back there was a crack and it was Completely defective after doing this reverse hammer blow, there was not a single additional damage to the screen, although I did find some on the back, we will see this later.
Hoping that the STM is even more durable than the s9, this would show that Samsung is on the right track, that they are constantly improving and that they were aware of their past mistakes and so far everything is good when it comes to bending The first hammer test also does absolutely nothing, but the second one leaves a bit of warping on the screen, it's not a huge problem, it's like a very subtle dent in the screen that you can only see when you move the phone. child's play compared to some of the injuries we've seen today and the side hit - pretty good, although as with the s9 the curved glass on the back is starting to crack a bit, it turns out the Galaxy S 10 has adequately durable phone, even that reverse hammer hit almost nothing on the front of the phone, a bit more cracks on the back, but we'll get to that in a second, just before we start smashing the infamous Nokia phone, we can try the s10 with the glass fusion protector installed as with the normal Ben test of the s10 and there is no problem, the hammer test leaves some marks and interestingly exactly the same deformation that we saw before on the s10, but it You'll see in a Second, why this isn't really a problem.
I then gave it two blows from the side because of the supposed chip protection here and then just to make sure it's doing its job, three reverse hammer blows from the front and at this point I do this kind of It looks like the phone is a bit banged up, but this glass fusion protector we have now is actually designed with impact in mind, so when you take it off it's pretty clear that the screen underneath is absolutely fine, oh yeah. In addition to the impact protection, the fusion glass is also resistant, worth the Nokia 3310, the supposed titan of the mobile phone market, bending was clearly not an option that was very clear but I was a little surprised to see that the first hammer hit was only enough to destroy the screen, hitting the phone from the side left a mark, but anyway there was no real structural damage when I got to the reverse hammer blow, one thing became very clear: the Nokia 3310 has a vulnerability in its screen, but when it doesn't We're getting that right, just when it comes to the overall body of the phone, this thing is as indestructible as people say, in fact, it completely lived up to its name.
I was handling this phone so hard that the table underneath it was starting to break before. I knew this dent had turned into a crater and I finally thought I had broken it for a second, but then I realized, literally, that the removable back had come off and I could simply put it back in place game on Nokia 3310 1 sir who the boss 0 so to recap the galaxy s7 was very average in terms of durability the s8 was completely mauled both front and back but it was on the s9 where we started to see a massive change from to Samsung's thicker glass which made more difference than any level of Gorilla Glass in terms of durability and then it was nice to see this carry over to the s 10 as well, so to answer the question: have

smartphones

become

weaker

? ?
I would say the answer is yes and no. Nokia 3310 is from a time when all smartphones were really durable bricks and these kinds of design cues and these materials also appeared in early smartphones like the Galaxy S, so those phones were also incredibly durable, but as you can see in the durability here. the focus started to become on design, it started to become on thinness and form factor and it's only recently, in the last few years, when technology has gotten good enough that you can have thin devices that are incredibly durable, so the trend It's actually up and positive and I can't wait if you enjoyed this video then consider subscribing to austgen mysteries.
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