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in Strasbourg archimandrite Authority what's going on everybody and I'm here at the beautiful La Arboretum in the wonderful six to six to bring you another drop test and this time we're talking about the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 this is the one that just came out and it has a bit of a different design philosophy so we want to see how it holds up to our drop test instead of glossy plastic it's a textured plastic the sides are a lot flatter and overall its design is just a little more decisive if you will now we're going to jump right into it but you guys know the drill I'm about five six so I'm going to be dropping it from about five feet right on its back and then on a side which is its bottom and then finally on its face so one thing you have to know though job tests can be kind of random I'm gonna do my best to get it to drop perfectly onto the floor but even if it drops a little bit weird we'll see how it how it does when it hits the floor let's get drop it here is the first test on the samsung galaxy note 3 falling flat on its back well hopefully alright all the cameras should be going and oh and the only real damage that you can see is right around here where it landed there's a couple scratches there but other than that the note three seems to have survived the back test but let's see how it fares in our side test where we drop it right on to its bottom so here we go it comes our side test drop it right on to its bottom and here we go okay and for the most part the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 seems to have sustained very little damage it did land pretty squarely on its bottom maybe on the maybe just on the front side more than the back side but as you can see the back cover is starting to come off just a little bit but of course we could just snap that right back into place but there are some real scuffs right there as you can see the back cover does snap right back into place we just have a lot of scratches on the bottom side right here I also just wanted to show you very quickly that this is still an operating device operational device rather there you go I'm able to get through everything just fine it's all there so after two tests we still have a very well working phone all right the final drop test this time flat on its face let's see what happens checking on my camera and let's see what happens in three two one oh you could already see it what oh you could already see it and so there it is just like we expected the screen completely we're almost completely shattered it landed pretty squarely on its front and on the top-left corner you can see that kind of where all of the spider webs actually began but then it kind of rippled through and now we have this lovely little pattern of a broken glass screen in front of us you do have somewhat of the fear that you might cut yourself on the screen I can feel all of the little shards hitting my finger as I bring the drop down down but yeah the screen still looks to be operational despite all of these cracks that are here and I really hope I'm not cutting myself doing this on a hot day in Los Angeles we found out that the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 is more than just a textured back well more than that really because we had to land on its back and nothing really happens we had to land on its bottom and it really just scuff the paint but then we had to fall flat on its face and as you can see right here all these spider webs on the screen it's cracked almost beyond recognition but when we turned on the phone it still worked you could definitely still use this phone much like many iPhones out there the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 is still operational even after a few drops so even though you should probably be replacing your screen it'll still work even if you crack it so there you have it for this drop test on the samsung galaxy note 3 as always stay tuned to android authority for all of the best coverage because we're your source for all things Android