Breakability Test Pits iPhone 15 Pro Max Against Galaxy Z Fold5, Pixel Fold and More

[Mousse]

How about drop-testing phones in various cases?
Don't most people use a phone case of some kind?

Yes. I would like to see how cheap cases compare to OtterBox. I spent extra $35 on the Defender to protect my $100 phone.😶 If a cheap $10 hybrid case protects 95% as well as the OtterBox I would have gone that route.

Corner and side impact drops are the one that matters to me. All of the cases have enough of a raised lip that screen first drops on a flat surface does no damage.

 

[dukebound85]

To test breakability?

I think the next test should be how many blows by a sledgehammer will an iPhone take....to test breakability

 

[Stiksi]

Somebody should test the IQ of all the drop testers.

I find that most offer 1080p with a few going to 4K, but youtube IQ is always going to suck.

 

[spinedoc77]

Wow the open folding displays trounced all the other ones handily, that's really remarkable. After having now 4 generations of folding phones I can anecdotally attest to how sturdy they are, even more so when closed and the inner screen isn't exposed, the inner screens are tanks.

What's amazing to me is that the price of a foldable phone is only $600 more, which is really cheap IMO for the technology. And that's the most expensive foldables on the market from Samsung/Google, which are almost always on sale for at least a few hundred off.

 

[spinedoc77]

They really said surprisingly the folding phones main screens survived with minor damage? Of course it didn't shatter it's not glass like rest of their body and other phones.

The inner display actually is glass...

 

[laptech]

If it breaks too easy then insurance will be high because as we know insurance companies do not like to pay out if they can help it.

 

[Flamingdeathbolts]

I like to take my iPhone swimming with me on holiday for underwater shots.

To me that sounds horrifying. But now that you said it I will have to give it a try.

 

[sack_peak]

How's the grip on those? My biggest complaint about these all glass phones it they are WAY too slippery. It's downright hard for me to hold them without a grippy type case.

I'm a returning customer. Could be an indicator of quality.

 

[klasma]

I think the next test should be how many blows by a sledgehammer will an iPhone take....to test breakability

I mean… we used to do the blender thing.

 

[bobcomer]

I'm a returning customer. Could be an indicator of quality.

I wasn't really just talking about quality, but just grip. I've had some cases that were supposed to be high grip, but they weren't. Plastic things that ended up almost as slippery as the glass.

 

[sack_peak]

I wasn't really just talking about quality, but just grip. I've had some cases that were supposed to be high grip, but they weren't. Plastic things that ended up almost as slippery as the glass.

Its textured TPU on the sides and back. Wasn't slippery on hand or on desk. When I try to slide it to someone they end up walking to and handing me the phone personally as it would get less than foot before stopping on a table top.

 

[bobcomer]

Its textured TPU on the sides and back. Wasn't slippery on hand or on desk. When I try to slide it to someone they end up walking to and handing me the phone personally as it would get less than foot before stopping on a table top.

Cool, thanks. That'll be my next phone case.

 

[compwiz1202]

Indeed ...most drops happen from waist/table height.

Yea they need tests from other heights until it is unusable with the levels of damage after each drop

 

[bgillander]

Finally, a real world test! I hate carrying my phone in my pocket, so I walk around all day with it balanced on the top of my head, and it is always falling off onto the concrete on which I’m constantly walking!

 

[Mikeske]

The guy who went to Australia to drop test on first day sounds so dumb.

Yeah but I counted at least three that went there 2 immediately started in and one did not but did a tear down and reassembly