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Always On - S4 Active in the wild

2013-09-24
time for our torture test of the Galaxy s4 active now I get a ton of email from people asking me to torture test devices with animals in some way so we're taking that idea to the extreme as we like to do on our show so we're here at Discovery Kingdom and we're gonna start off with the waterproof test now I have heard this thing has some problems being fully submerged I already have some good animal pictures on here that I don't want to lose but I'm gonna try to take it in the water see how it does with the dolphins okay so here's what happened I got in the pool it's why I'm across the pool now the phone will come on this is saltwater and that could be partly what happened it's also possible I did put a strap on here because I didn't want to lose it it might have pulled this back cover loose a little bit but I have to say I have been in this cold cold water for like less than two minutes and I haven't even got to play with any dolphins in this freaking bone is dead already loser let's see if the Sun that can bring this dog back to life before we move on to our other tests our first test is complete to the underwater test and I have to say I am NOT impressed this should not be billed as an underwater capable phone however we're going to continue with our structural integrity tests and it's on to the elephants so but does Valerie like to play with phones just about anything she can get her hands on yeah yeah I've actually already been told that while dolphins like to eat things elephants like to break things yes that true that is true I think that she's gonna prove that it's not as drought proof as we think it is all right we'll test it out okay good girl you go have fun oh thank you gave back to you I like it just hold your hand out hope you miss there we go all right kind of like she doesn't she hates it it smells like salt water it's all younger the balcony oh there you go Bravo Val how's it taking some damage yeah a little wet in there too oh well yeah that's not however Val just hurled it to the concrete and I'm not saying there's like a little bit of scratching scratching all right Valerie how do you think you're gonna have to try harder than that yeah get it get out for it all right oh thank you she doesn't like it out here got a little bit of denting on the corner there not bad well Green is still totally intact I can't believe how water comes out of this every time yeah this is like altars also a form of drying it out hold it trunk perfect good girl that was awesome that's fantastic and it's still totally fine other than the water just streaming I don't even know where all that water would go its boogers to some of its boogers all right now that iPhone is soaking wet and covered with elephant boogers I know you thought it was the obvious thing to have her step on it but we're saving that for the giraffes you know and rafts are my favorite animal look so beautiful okay so we're gonna try the step and step on awesome how much does Rosie wait so Rosie weighs about 1,200 pounds 1,200 pounds all right you know we've had a 1400 pound Boulder on a MacBook Pro it went okay went okay let's see how the active handles it all right so here I'll do a screen side down okay good luck sweetie come here we can try the Brendon bye-bye I guess their pride smart enough to avoid an obstacle baby good kick oh yes I think I heard some cracking I think I definitely heard a little bit of a crack oh hi hey are you doing it took us a while but we have touchdown Brandon Belt our two-year-old giraffe is standing right on top of the s4 active oh yes all right Brandon did all the damage that you might have expected a 1,300 pounds ought to do yeah this would be the cracking that I heard I'm glad that this was a glass side down we have some obvious scratching and stuff back here but I think now we know the limits of the Galaxy s4 active screen I mean granted it's a pretty high limit but this is it
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