• Nexus 6P Fails Horribly at Durability Test
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[video=youtube;tTIaUH6PIvo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTIaUH6PIvo[/video] This is pretty pathetic.
I hope the 5x is better because I'm planning to buy one
[QUOTE=Laserbeams;49015748]I hope the 5x is better because I'm planning to buy one[/QUOTE] Hopefully something better will come out. I don't have an upgrade until next fall or so. I like my Nexus 6 and I was considering the 6P. But not anymore.
Comments seem to think this is an early production phone, not sure myself but here's a different video: [media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GZV-jO6ebg[/media]
Yeah the one in the OP video lacks details that the retail models have like the Huawei badge on the back cover. So its either pre-production or a really good clone.
the only joke here is the video lmao
why would anyone in their right mind do a burn test on a phone of course its going to fucking burn when you hold a flame to it, what's there to even test in that regard
[QUOTE=Reagy;49015859]Yeah the one in the OP video lacks details that the retail models have like the Huawei badge on the back cover. So its either pre-production or a really good clone.[/QUOTE] The Huawei logo is there, it's just really faint. YouTube compression probably killed it.
[QUOTE=agentfazexx;49015731]This is pretty pathetic.[/QUOTE] Hardly, once the screen is cracked like it was in this video the phone loses a majority of its structural integrity. At that point it was basically just bending a sheet of aluminum because the screen had already given up.
[QUOTE=apurplerock;49015919]why would anyone in their right mind do a burn test on a phone of course its going to fucking burn when you hold a flame to it, what's there to even test in that regard[/QUOTE] The burn test is to check the heat resistance of the glass and the panel it uses. Say a phone's screen cracks when it gets hot, what happens when someone leaves it in their car on a hot day, or on a desk in a sunbeam? Or what happens if you get some sort of refracted light, and it burns into your screen? It's a valid durability check, even if it seems a bit unorthodox.
it defiantly does not bend if the screen is not cracked.
[QUOTE=apurplerock;49015919]why would anyone in their right mind do a burn test on a phone of course its going to fucking burn when you hold a flame to it, what's there to even test in that regard[/QUOTE] do yourself a favour and watch the other videos he's done and see how other phones hold up because it seems like an entirely valid test when most phones survive it.
I personally think that like what has been said before here, the screen having been previously cracked had a major say in the durability of it, but still, I personally don't know what to believe now. :v: Also, [QUOTE=ashrobhoy;49016000]it defiantly does not bend if the screen is not cracked.[/QUOTE] I don't want to be "that guy" but seriously: [url]http://d-e-f-i-n-i-t-e-l-y.com/[/url]
yeah but isn't the screen cracking from a scratch test an indication of a weakness in the phone anyways
Is there any YT'er yet who tests phones on daily use? I mean, buy a phone and walk around with it for a week of three with your average things in your pocket like keys, cards and so on. Or when it drops from trouser height and not from a 2 story high building. Or if it works after you spill beer/cola on it. All these tests are looking up the extremes that don't really occur in daily life or when you are just careful with your stuff, i have always bought a coat that has a breast pocket to put my phone in, that way my iphone is still looking very fresh.
[QUOTE=darth-veger;49016060]Is there any YT'er yet who tests phones on daily use? I mean, buy a phone and walk around with it for a week of three with your average things in your pocket like keys, cards and so on. Or when it drops from trouser height and not from a 2 story high building. Or if it works after you spill beer/cola on it. All these tests are looking up the extremes that don't really occur in daily life or when you are just careful with your stuff, i have always bought a coat that has a breast pocket to put my phone in, that way my iphone is still looking very fresh.[/QUOTE] If it can handle the extremes, it's even more likely to handle the average everyday stress.
I don't really get the point of the burn test. Are people really shoving lighters in front of their phones, or having them near fire and heat sources constantly? Am I just missing something? Also, while I believe I did see a faint bit of the Huawei text in the OP video (it's very blurry, but I can just make out the "H" in "Huawei"), I do have to believe that this whole test was staged in some way just to result in clickbait views. If this somehow ends up being the truth though, I guess I'll just take extra special care of my upcoming 6P. Not like that will be hard to do anyway. I've had my Nexus 4 for almost 3 years, and despite being dropped a handful of times, it only has some scratches on the back due to the glass on the back not being gorilla glass. Every other part of the phone has no dings or scratches to it.
[QUOTE=Rahu X;49016472]I don't really get the point of the burn test. Are people really shoving lighters in front of their phones, or having them near fire and heat sources constantly? Am I just missing something? Also, while I believe I did see a faint bit of the Huawei text in the OP video (it's very blurry, but I can just make out the "H" in "Huawei"), I do have to believe that this whole test was staged in some way just to result in clickbait views. If this somehow ends up being the truth though, I guess I'll just take extra special care of my upcoming 6P. Not like that will be hard to do anyway. I've had my Nexus 4 for almost 3 years, and despite being dropped a handful of times, it only has some scratches on the back due to the glass on the back not being gorilla glass. Every other part of the phone has no dings or scratches to it.[/QUOTE] as someone pointed out already, suppose you live in an environment where heat is a constant factor, either as a result of the local weather or wherever you work in. phones whose screens & displays become damaged due to heat would not be of recommended use in such an environment because it is a legitimate concern.
If you leave your phone in the car in Arizona in August, similar things will happen. That's why they do a heat test guys.
Wouldn't it be a better heat test to put it in an oven on low for a few minutes rather than holding a fire to one spot on the screen?
[QUOTE=GURREN LAGANN;49017185]Wouldn't it be a better heat test to put it in an oven on low for a few minutes rather than holding a fire to one spot on the screen?[/QUOTE] Depends.
[QUOTE=HumanAbyss;49016046]yeah but isn't the screen cracking from a scratch test an indication of a weakness in the phone anyways[/QUOTE] That's a property of any type of compressive strength glass, with your surface scratch you'll lose some of the stress inside the material, and you'll compromise its strength. Mythbusters has some educational/sellout video on it, [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13B5K_lAabw[/url] [editline]30th October 2015[/editline] [QUOTE=aznz888;49017055]as someone pointed out already, suppose you live in an environment where heat is a constant factor, either as a result of the local weather or wherever you work in. phones whose screens & displays become damaged due to heat would not be of recommended use in such an environment because it is a legitimate concern.[/QUOTE] And the way to test if a phone functions in the desert is to take an 1000*C flame too it, yeah right.
Putting a naked flame up to a phone and bending it in half seems like a great way to puncture the battery and severely injure yourself.
[QUOTE=darth-veger;49016060]Is there any YT'er yet who tests phones on daily use? I mean, buy a phone and walk around with it for a week of three with your average things in your pocket like keys, cards and so on. Or when it drops from trouser height and not from a 2 story high building. Or if it works after you spill beer/cola on it. All these tests are looking up the extremes that don't really occur in daily life or when you are just careful with your stuff, i have always bought a coat that has a breast pocket to put my phone in, that way my iphone is still looking very fresh.[/QUOTE] Linus Tech Tips and Technobuffalo only review phones after using them as their personal daily driver for a week or two
[QUOTE=GURREN LAGANN;49017185]Wouldn't it be a better heat test to put it in an oven on low for a few minutes rather than holding a fire to one spot on the screen?[/QUOTE] No, it's to test recovery time from excessive heat. It has nothing to do with ambient temperatures around the phone, more with direct sunlight hitting the screen or refracting through glass and hitting specific points. This phone in particular has a very weak polarizing film, or very weak adhesive bonding the glass to the polarizer, or not particularly heat resistant glass, or a combination of all three. Polarizers can take quite a beating as long as there's good, heat resistant glass and a nice layer of adhesive between it and the heat source. As a point of reference polarizers and AMOLEDs have a tendency to suffer heat damage while unprotected at around 200ºC. (source: I repair mobile phones for a living). The burn test is more of a thing to tell you just how good the glass really is. Poor quality glass is going to bend or buckle under the heat or get all dirtied up from the leftovers of combustion. High quality glass won't. High quality glass will also have the structure to disperse heat more evenly. If the glass has already taken damage then that makes the underlying polarizer and display even more susceptible to day-to-day heat damage from things like leaving it in your car or out in the sun.
Ouch that bend test
So its safe to asume that once the screen cracks, the entire phone is bound to bend, but wont if the screen is in mint condition.
as mentioned the lighter's flame would be in the upper range of 1,000 - 2,000 Celsius, and the closest I can imagine you getting that in a car on a hot sunny day, even down here, is focusing sunlight ala magnifying glass -- i.e. in the order of 200 - 500 celsius if you want to get generous stupid test, though I suppose no more stupid than all the other exaggerated extreme tests like dropping the phone from orbit to test fall resistance, having it tag along down the Challenger Deep to ensure water resistance and driving over it in a tank to test structural integrity I wonder why the phone he tested appeared so weak? doesn't look like the time he spent heating it up would have compromised it much, the screen cracking maybe, or was it some pre-production model?
It's a Huawei phone, so of course it's gonna be terrible :v:
[QUOTE=Em See;49019480]as mentioned the lighter's flame would be in the upper range of 1,000 - 2,000 Celsius, and the closest I can imagine you getting that in a car on a hot sunny day, even down here, is focusing sunlight ala magnifying glass -- i.e. in the order of 200 - 500 celsius if you want to get generous stupid test, though I suppose no more stupid than all the other exaggerated extreme tests like dropping the phone from orbit to test fall resistance, having it tag along down the Challenger Deep to ensure water resistance and driving over it in a tank to test structural integrity I wonder why the phone he tested appeared so weak? doesn't look like the time he spent heating it up would have compromised it much, the screen cracking maybe, or was it some pre-production model?[/QUOTE] basically it was a perfect storm of factors the lighter helped melt the glue, the glass cracking meant that the structural integrity of the phone was severely compromised, along with the glue not holding the screen to the aluminum as well, meant that it was basically just bending a soda can
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