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we're here in beautiful Hong Kong Bay around the time of an iphone release well you know what that means for Android authority it's Joshua Garth manager I thought it what's going on everybody and this is your iPhone 5s and 5c drop tests well it's another year and it's another iPhone release normally we compare these new iPhones to some sort of Android device but since Apple change it up a little bit and gave us two devices to work with we're just going to drop both of them back to back of course we have the iPhone 5s which is the updated version of their aluminum clad flagship phone but the one I know you want to know about is the 5c and I'm certainly excited to see how this plastic or polycarbonate if you want to get fancy how this plastic phone will hold up to our drop test guess what it's drop test that we're going to keep it around this height and we're going to just focus on getting into the fall on its back on one of its sides and then the one we all know could be the potential big one on its face here we go iPhone 5s drop test onto its back from about chest level the only real damage that you can see is in the corner right here where it did get scuffed this is where the point of impact was when he landed on its top corner as usually the aluminum body holds up pretty well but now we're gonna see how the iPhone 5s stands to our side test we're gonna have it land right here on its bottom all right here we go next test coming right up whoo once again the aluminum body still holds up even though it landed on its corner nothing happened to the screen because there's a little bit of a give here on the aluminum frame but as you can see right there the aluminum frame did get a little bit of a scuff all right again from around chest torso level coming through hopefully I get a nice flat impact here and whoa that one was good whoa that one was good much like its predecessor the iPhone 5s still holds up with its build quality we dropped it on its back on its side and on its face and as you can see here the phone still looks pretty nice and for the most part you can't even tell that this thing's been dropped aside from the little scuffs on the corners in the back that you saw from the previous test the screen remains intact even after we let it fall flat on its face really not even any cracks any scuffs on the screen whatsoever so the iPhone 5s actually passes this drop test with some flying colors and now here's the moment a lot of you have been waiting for the iPhone 5c let's see if the 5c is more than plastic in a lot of different colors let's find out if it's durable around chest level as always and here we go hmm while the iPhone 5c landed squarely on its back but this plastic back that wraps around doesn't look like it has any damage all right we put it on its back let's see what happens on its side iPhone 5c side drop test and I'll well on the side test what we have here is a corner hit you can see the scuffs right there it almost gets over to the screen but other than that that's pretty much the only damage we see on the iPhone 5c thus far all right well the iPhone 5c seems to be holding up so far but we're gonna go ahead and give it our face first test this is where things could definitely go wrong so we'll see how that iPhone 5c holds up so here it comes well as we usually expect when it comes to iPhones we see the screen shatter we had a very good impact right on the front and as you can see here there are spider webs all over the front of this phone so the screen definitely shattered I'm afraid to touch it fertile fear of getting cut but we're gonna see if it still is operational and so there you have it the iPhone 5s and 5c drop test we did expect the iPhone 5s to hold up pretty much the way the iPhone 5 did with this great build quality but we didn't know what to expect from the iPhone 5c well judging from this one test we do see that both of these phones actually stack up however whereas the iPhone 5s was able to avoid a shattered screen by bouncing up and down the iPhone 5c unfortunately landed straight on its face and its screen did shatter but as you can see in the footage here both ones are still operational so judging from this one drop test we can say that both of these phones actually do hold up and are pretty solid but in the end it matters what you think so stay tuned to Android 34 all of the best coverage drop us a like on her videos and don't forget to subscribe and remember we're your source for all things Android