What's up YouTube, I have posted hundreds of do-it-yourself phone repair videos to my
YouTube Channel JerryRIgEverything.
Hundreds, including this phone, the Samsung Galaxy S6.
Go ahead and click that link if you're interesting in seeing what's inside of this phone.
Every time I get a new phone I'm curious to how durable it's going to be.
How easy does it scratch, how far can it bend before the screen cracks.
I'm sure I"m probably not the only person who has wondered these things.
So today I'm going to sacrifice my phone for science.
The screen on the Galaxy S6 is made of Gorilla Glass 4.
I will link a pretty sweet spreadsheet of the specs of Gorilla Glass 4 in the comments
below.
But right now I'll assess some real-world applications, first of which is rubbing my
keys up against the screen.
Nearly every phone will have the opportunity to brush up against metal during its life,
whether in purse or a pocket.
I know my purse is always full of metal objects.
The keys pretty much did nothing to the screen.
Neither did a Phillips head screwdriver.
Now I'm going to take a razor blade in my knife.
You can see the screen flex from the pressure that I'm applying with this razor blade.
It's pretty impressive that there's absolutely no damage done to the screen so far.
I am not holding back at all with the razor blade.
Just making sure I don't crack the LCD with the pressure.
And besides that dust speck you can see that there's literally no damage done to the screen,
which is incredibly impressive considering I just hacked at it with a razor blade.
Now even though this test isn't completely a real-world situation, it's more just to
satisfy my curiosity, what the metal frame of the phone looks like under flame.
The plastic frame of the phone would probably melt a little bit or discolor, but with the
metal frame once you wipe off the smoke marks, it's literally just like it was when it was
brand new.
Let's see how the screen fares underneath the flame test.
So far so good.
No discoloration or anything.
The flame right up against the screen, everything is still working just fine.
Now what are we at, like twenty or thirty seconds with straight flame?
You can start to see a little discoloration in the AMOLED screen here.
As the lighter is pressed right up against here you can see that little speck, but if
you wait ten seconds or so the speck goes away entirely.
So pretty impressive for the AMOLED screen as well, it holds up to heat pretty well.
I'm impressed.
You can see that the speck is completely gone now.
And everything on the phone is still working so we're going to go ahead and try the bend
test.
This was a huge problem with the iPhone 6 first came out, as well as the iPhone 5 and
5s.
Personally, it seems like the frame of the Galaxy S6 is much more rigid than the iPhone.
It'll be interesting to see what breaks first, the back of the phone or the screen of the
phone.
Everything is still working.
I'm going to go ahead and try round two here.
I really am pressing as hard as I can just trying to get the phone to bend.
You can see that the the edges of the phone are curving backwards but yet the screen is
still functioning just fine.
I'm going to go ahead and try again.
Pressing as hard as I can into the back of the phone, and still nothing.
The phone doesn't bend or kink at all so far.
One more try.
Still nothing.
I'm going to go ahead and try to push it back the other direction, see if I can get the
back glass to crack or pop.
Still nothing.
One more try with the back.
I am not a small person so it is impressive that this phone can withstand this much force.
Neither the front or the back of the phone is cracking.
Even when I get both hands into it.
You can see it flex out just a little bit though on both the front and the back as I'm
pressing it through.
Now the only time that I did get the phone to react is when I twisted it and bent it
at the same time, putting more pressure on one side than the other.
That's when I got a little bit of a kink out of the phone.
But everything is still working.
It mostly looks like an LG G Flex.
Which isn't exactly the look we're going for but it's impressive that everything is still
working.
Even now that there's a kink in the screen it still won't break all the way through.
Well I think this phone has survived enough abuse for one day.
If there's any interest, I will do a drop test video with what's left of the phone.
I'm going to bend it back.
You can see that right next to the Sim card slot it's a little bit kinked.
Anyway let me know down in the comments below what kind of tests you would like to see done
on a phone.
What kind of durability tests would you like to see tested.
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Thanks for watching.