Name: iPhone X DROP TEST - The most Expensive glass ever on a smartphone!!
Uploaded: 2020-03-06T18:22:33.000Z
Duration: 8 min 31 s
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So I've been giving Apple a hard time lately over the construction of their recent iPhones

To-infinitive

because they are so expensive to replace.

With the iPhone X, it's $549 to replace the back glass.

With the iPhone 8 Plus it's a little bit cheaper, but still incredibly expensive.

So today I'm going to put my money where my mouth is and I have two brand new phones,

Both of them have the glass backs with the new construction design, and we're going going

to drop them both with realistic drops and see when they may or may not break.

Remember that drop tests are never conclusive.

With a larger sample size you can get a better idea of what's going to happen.

I have done two drop tests in the past with regular sized iPhone 8's, but I have never

So it'll be interesting to see what happens.

Plus I'll be attempting my own back glass repairs on these broken phones, so I need

Apple does claim to have the most durable glass ever on a smartphone, so it'll be interesting

to see what happens with this iPhone X and the new iPhone 8 Plus.

So like always, we'll have two smartphones.

This is the Galaxy S8 Plus, and over here we have the Google Pixel 2.

Both of these will be recording in slow motion as we do the drop test.

It also has an aluminum frame which is slightly softer than stainless steel and can be pushed

Now, both the iPhone 8 Plus and the iPhone X have a small plastic layer between the glass

and the metal, but since aluminum gets pressed in easier, I'm going to assume that this one

Right now it's about 3 feet up or 1 meter give or take.

Both cameras are recording and I'll just stand up.

So after the first drop it looks like the back is fine.

We hit right up here on the corner next the the camera bump.

But the back panel is fine and the front is fine.

And we'll start playing with the iPhone X or the iPhone 10 – whatever you want to

This one does have the stainless steel rails on the side, which is a little bit harder

So my assumption is that this is going to break after the 8 Plus, but there's only one

I'll go ahead and set this on my leg, and we will stand up.

Looks like the back glass is totally fine.

We'll do sitting down one more time because this is the most common type of drop – just

forgetting it's on your lap and then standing up.

And the back glass...this is amazing...the back glass is completely shattered.

I'm impressed at how shattered that is from such a short drop.

So this brand new iPhone 8 Plus took only two drops from about knee height as it slides

off of my leg to completely shatter the back.

And now we owe Apple a ton of money to replace this thing.

This wouldn't be an issue if we could just remove the back without destroying the camera,

But what Apple does is they replace the whole housing of the phone, transferring over all

the internal components because the back glass does not separate from the back housing.

Alright, now that the iPhone 8 Plus is completely shattered, let's go back to the iPhone X.

Once again, I think this one will last a little bit longer because of that stainless steel

The back glass is still totally fine – no damage.

So hopefully that stainless steel side is absorbing the impact and not denting in to

So the iPhone 8 Plus is completely shattered, but we're going to do another drop test anyway

and see how long it takes the front to shatter.

Now I'll be pulling it out of my pocket and dropping it from about waist high.

That time around it did fall directly on the screen as I flopped it out of my pocket.

From waist high, the front of the phone is completely damaged, whether it's from the

glass slightly protruding above the edge of the aluminum right here, or just the aluminum

getting pushed into the top edge of the glass and breaking it that way.

Either way, the front and the back of this phone are completely damaged now from I think

So as far as most durable glass on a smartphone ever, glass is still glass, and gravity is

We'll pull it out of my pocket and let it hit the ground.

We have complete, solid glass on the back and no cracks on the front.

We'll do one more waist high drop with the X since the 8 Plus has bit the dust.

There is nothing wrong with the front of the phone.

Still zero cracks on the whole front side of the device.

But on the back side, right next to the camera hump, there's the smallest of nicks.

So I'm going to assume that with the next drop or a drop soon after, the whole back

is going to shatter from that point because once there's a weak point introduced into

the glass, that's where all the damage happens.

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