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one two three four five cameras and I have a brand new smartphone in my pocket this seems oddly familiar hey Joshua car from Android thority what's going everybody and in my hands is the brand new LG V 20 newly announced and available soon the whole idea behind the V 20 as it has a different design from the v10 is that it is made from metal that is recycled from airplanes so this is Mellott military level protection on here and if we take this back cover off it actually feels incredibly durable this is a very solid backing and well we're going to put it to the test in our traditional drop test before we drop it on its back and then onto one of its sides typically the bottom here and then of course the last one where we might actually see some problems dropping it on its face back test coming up in three two one well one of the things that always happened with removable backings on smartphones back in the day or even dumb phones back in the day is that they all broke apart when they would fall on the ground with enough force that's exactly what we saw here with the LG v 20 go ahead and just pick up the unit itself aren't any problems with the screen not really any scuffs around and then the battery did pop out so of course that was a problem I'm going to go ahead and put that battery back in right now and then I'll show you a closer look on this camera up here so the good news is that the phone is completely intact there weren't any scuffs or anything that really damaged the device we do have a little bit of blemish right here but it really isn't a whole lot so let's say get a little bit too antsy about going around the device there's nothing wrong with it and if I were to turn the device back on again we have the LG logo coming up it's still a fully functioning device even if it did break apart pretty completely due to that removable back it's nice that it actually breaks apart like that because it actually absorbs a lot of the shock so we're probably not going to have too many problems if it falls on its back side test dropping in three two and one two and one I guess that really wasn't much of a surprise was it taking the phone out we do have a scuff on the bottom where it landed obviously the battery popped out once again no damage to the battery so it's not going to explode in my hand thankfully so we see one little scratch here in the corner nothing really all that severe so it still looks pretty good but I actually wanted to keep the cover off for a second to show you that there are a couple of scuffs on the battery I'm still not all that concerned that it's going to blow up or a catch fire or anything like that but I did want to show you that there were these little marks on the battery because it is being tumbled around now while the phone boots up I will tell you we had a unique opportunity to even test out this phone here in Berlin Germany we're obviously standing in front of the Bundestag so it's awesome that we were able to take the v20 out when we have the time to and be able to test it to see if it is actually as durable as it needs to be three two one and drop and drop well the back popped off but thankfully the battery stayed in so hopefully I'll have that shot for you but the moment of truth is always the screen in this one so let's see what happened looks like it's fine darn any scratches or not even any cracks on the screen so so far it's doing a really great job let's take a closer look up here it's great that the battery did not come off of the device because now I still have the same camera shot recording and yeah it looks like the screen was able to survive it it was a really flat drop onto this rock over here and really I wasn't really expecting the screen to crack hopefully the military-grade durability was going to hold up here even on the screen and the conditions made it so that it was able to survive that kind of drop but we're gonna take it up a notch after all we really want to see just how far this can go and maybe in the future we'll do even more extreme testing on this but for now we're going to just up the ante by upping the distance we do have our colleague Chris Carlin here who is much taller than me so we're gonna have him come in and do the test even higher than chest level for him he's gonna hold it nice and high up I'm gonna see how it fares in the same test from a higher distance up Chris yep I'm gonna count you down ok 3 2 1 2 1 well a higher distance means that there's gonna be more spread so let's see what happened starting with the back cover which obviously flew off it still looks really good it's not getting scuffed a whole lot on the bottom here the battery even though I noticed that there are some marks that are here still looks pretty intact I don't think this is going to combust on me and then on the bottom portion or rather the main portion of the phone everything looks pretty good all right well here's the phone power bond works well LG logo everything is still powering up just fine so higher distance up still doing pretty well dropping in three two one one these explosions are becoming very commonplace for us so the bottom portion is what we dropped it on obviously and a higher distance up could take a look at the bottom and it is getting more scuffed but still nothing to really get all that worried about there's one really good scuff right here though but that just means that all the shock made the phone explode out that's the wrong term to use it made it break apart I'm mainly worried about the battery because it keeps having to brave the elements and scoot around but it looks good still and we'll go ahead and pop that back in and finally the back cover still feels really good works perfectly fine but now the final test one more drop onto its face from about this high is that really your height I can go VIN oilin okay you can go a bit higher than that final test on its face dropping in three two one perfect it's funny how we can actually predict what's going to happen the battery stayed in again thank God back cover came off it's hopefully still recording I'm gonna wave my hand over it but here comes the moment of truth no poor v20 alright I'm gonna go up to this angle up here so we can get a closer look at the destruction I'm putting the cover back on but really this this phone is done and there it is all of the cracks the spiderwebs the whatever you want to call them I'm actually scared to press on to the screen right now to turn off the video recording because I'm afraid I'll cut my finger that has happened to me before but you can see all of those scratches oh dear well of course from a good enough impact and a good enough distance the screen will shatter and that's exactly what we were able to do in this drop test here well unfortunately we were able to crack the screen of the V 20 but the rest of the body it did a really good job well I'm not sure if in this video here which you're probably seeing right now there's a crack going straight across the front facing camera so maybe you can see some discoloration or maybe just a little bit of difference here because I'm obviously staring at a completely shattered screen this phone may be still be usable but with all those scratches and spiderweb cracks right there you're probably going to cut your finger it's better to just replace that glass panel but the rest of the phone did wonderfully well there are no scuffs except for the one that's on the bottom here when we dropped it from that high distance but from there it's still a good looking phone it's just as inoperable when it comes to the touchscreen well that's our test at least this particular durability test for the LG v 20 we have a lot of coverage of the lv 20 here at android Ithorian you can make sure to check that all out at Android comm and beyond in our youtube channel as well we have comparisons or hands on and we're going to have your full review available soon 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