iPhone 12 Pro Durability Test - Is 'Ceramic Shield' Scratchproof?!

Today we are going to

test

the

durability

of the iPhone 12 Pro and its front screen covered with a

ceramic

shield

. You may have noticed that the box is a little smaller this year. You know how Apple has been slowly removing things with each new product release. First was the headphone jack, then the hdmi on your laptops and now it's the charging brick that disappeared, it's always exciting to know what's going to disappear next. Apple definitely keeps you on your toes, honestly, although it's probably a good thing their 5-watt inbox charger was the slowest. charger any phone anywhere and now there is no reason not to upgrade to the faster charging Anker Nano, which costs less while charging three times faster while maintaining the same size as the old brick.

Thanks to Anker for sponsoring this video, now iPhone users will be able to experience the fast charging that Androids have had for years. I'll leave a link in the video description that will give you 10 percent off the Anchor Nano because you know if Apple won't connect you to Anchor. Surely now is the time for the

durability

test

, let's start in person. I think it's a little suspicious that Apple got rid of the free inbox charger at exactly the same time they released a new type of magnetic charging that conveniently cost forty dollars. By the way, I'm sure it's all just a coincidence, although just like the headphone jack disappeared at the same time wireless airpods came out, you know it's totally normal behavior.

You can see that inside the magnetic circular attachment there is a group of coiled wires that are transferred. power to the other set of wires coiled inside the phones, we'll have to see what they actually look like when we open them up for the teardown video, but while we're here on the outside we can see where the magnets are located. With some metal shavings, the magnets form a perfect circle around the outside of the copper coils. Thumbs up for that, I think it's great, even if you can't keep your credit card and phone in the same pocket anymore, it's probably a good option.

However, it is generally an idea to keep metal shavings away from your phone if you remember that the earpiece and speaker are also made with magnets, so if any small shavings get caught inside the phone, it can break the speakers in bits, I'm sure the IP68 waterproofing will help keep out the dust and chips, but it's still better to be safe than sorry. Speaking of safe rather than sorry, Apple has improved its phone design quite a bit this year, focusing a lot on the screen. a step beyond the glass, but it is also important to listen carefully to his carefully structured sentences full of buzzwords.

Apple said they have included

ceramic

nanocrystals within the glass matrix to dramatically improve toughness and yes, they may have found a new way to form glass to make it stronger, but those new crystals are still inside a glass matrix , meaning it's still glass no matter how many other words they add to the sentence and if glass is still glass, you know the rest Apple doesn't mention much about scratch resistance, just drop protection. and toughness, they also use the phrase along with our new design, it makes the iPhone stronger than ever, so it's not just the new glass.

I think a big part of that four times the drop resistance comes from the design with the glass completely flush right inside. The frame surface, a piece of glass, has six sides on the front, back and all four edges, and with five of those six sides protected by the frame of this phone in a way that most smartphones are not. built, it really makes this iPhone 12 pro more shock resistant. So I believe Apple's claim that glass is four times stronger, but I think the protective design has more to do with it than buzzwords. I've scratched hundreds and hundreds of phones the exact same way and Apple's ceramic

shield

is still getting scratched. on level six with deeper grooves on level seven it may just be my imagination but it looks like the scratches on level six are a little weaker but definitely still there.

The ceramic shield is not the product that will take us to the next one. Mohs hardness level, one thing you can always be sure of is that as Apple takes things out of the box, the high price will always remain the same. The only way to truly keep your screen scratch-free and with a high resale value is with a screen protector. I've installed thousands of screen protectors from my pre-YouTube phone repair days and it only takes a few seconds. The biggest obstacle is dust under the glass, but there is an alcohol wipe and dust sticker in the box to help mitigate damage to the screen protector.

It's held in place by a thin layer of nano-adhesive so there's no residue left on the glass when removed, and since the iPhone 12 Pro's screen is completely flat, the precisely cut screen protector makes it look like it was intended for use. be there like you. wear safety glasses to protect your eyes and a mask to protect your lungs. A screen protector is an inexpensive way to avoid many regrets in the future. I will leave a link for dbrand screen protectors in the video description and also these are not the usual ones. rubbery plastic screen protectors or is it an extra layer of protective tempered glass and as we know glass is glass and glass can, it's much easier to replace a 10 screen protector than it is to replace a 270 screen.

I'll leave that link in the description now. If I'm completely honest, I have to say that the iPhone 12 Pro is one of the cleanest and best-feeling phones I've had in a long time and the frame is surprisingly difficult to scratch the sides of the iPhone. 12 pro are made of stainless steel and since my razor blade is also made of stainless steel they find it difficult to damage each other, the paint will obviously still scratch, most phones are usually made of softer aluminum, like a 3 or 4 on the largest scale, so this stainless steel at most five is quite a bit stronger, it's just the paint that is not the silver version of the iPhone that will hide this type of damage.

The best thing is that there is no expandable memory, of course, there never was. the magnets on the back can be a handy SIM card removal tool holder and then of course at the bottom we still have our Lightning port. I'm also a big fan of textured glass. Here you can hear the difference my knife makes when it goes from the rough, frosted texture to the smooth glass in the apple logo. Textured glass has the ability to act like sandpaper for other objects, since glass is a very hard material. Softer objects like this penny will leave marks on the glass, but the marks are not permanent, it is just dust trapped on the rough surface and can be rubbed off.

The top camera bump is relatively reasonable this year compared to Samsung's monstrosities. The bottom lens is a 12-megapixel two-time optical zoom telephoto lens. Then we have the 12 megapixel ultra wide angle. in the center and the 12 megapixel main sensor on top and each camera lens is again covered with its own sapphire crystal lens cover, it's still getting level six and seven marks but you know how I feel about the iPhone 12 pro display being a 6.1-inch super retina xdr display, which means it's OLED and has a slightly higher resolution than 1080p. The interesting thing is that even after 30 seconds of heat from my lighter, the OLED pixels remain undisturbed and undamaged, other phones start spinning. white and is not recovering now.

I'm not a materials expert, but ceramic is a slower heat conductor than glass, which means heat doesn't transfer through it easily, so it's possible that Apple's new screen material keep heat away from pixels. This doesn't mean much as far as lighters go, but it does add a bit of validity to Apple's new ceramic glass material claim that the oleophobic coating definitely evaporates, so don't try the burn test on your own. account. Phone, what about the bend test? I mean, it's probably easy to guess, but with the more solid stainless steel frame and recessed glass on both sides keeping the case rigid, the iPhone 12 Pro is a tank of a cell phone that doesn't flex and I'm impressed.

There are no bins, kinks or cracks of any kind in the frame. Apple is and always has been premium and expensive, but at least lately the materials have started to match the price a little better. I used my last phone for over three years and I've only had my current phone for about a year so I'm not ready to upgrade yet, maybe one day I'll try the iPhone again but I'll wait until the iPhone 13 Pro Max Ultra Plus 6G without next year's screen edition before compensating. In my opinion, I will leave links in the description for those things that Apple forgot to include, like the charger and screen protector, let me know what you think of Apple's new phone in the comments.

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