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all right it's going to hurt but we are going to torture test the Samsung Galaxy s3 it'll go through our standard battery of tests cold heat dropping and a water test plus a wild card that you'll see in a little while let's get going time for the cold test Samsung Galaxy s3 going in the freezer for two hours little buddy good luck fingers crossed okay our Samsung Galaxy s3 has been in the freezer two hours let's see how it's doing ooh it is convincing up on the screen already let's check its temperature 24 degrees try the back 20 degrees you can see condensation forming already oh it's actually ice there's like ice buildup on there let's try to turn it on okay well it comes on it is sluggish but still functional nice okay so we're trying a new thing for the torture test we have bought a terrarium and then I ordered 250 watt ceramic bulbs that are meant to sort of heat up like a lizard enclosure so I'm going to see if we can get the inside of a like pretty much hot box this thing and then see if we can get it to you know 120 140 degrees no lizards or spiders in there though okay now it's time for the heat test we had to reconfigure our terrarium of death a little bit to get it hotter in there now I think it might be too hot so we're actually just going to go with one bulb on still working fine after the cold that their lid on this for sealing one hour we might have gotten a little carried away with the heat test it got pretty hot inside the terrarium of death I did turn off this top bulb but it might have been a little unfair let's see how it's doing okay the first thing I want to know is whether I can even touch it with my bare hand that phone is hot that phone is too hot to touch right now it seems kind of cruel to try to turn it on so I'm just going to set it to the side let it cool for about 10 minutes maybe it's okay all right so it's been resting for about 10 minutes it's now pretty much room temperature to the touch let's let's see if it turns on oh it came on oh my god okay my mind is blown right now well played phone well played this thing is totally fine I think it's snappier than it was after the cold test unbelievable okay it's time for our drop test and this camera is rolling three drops all from standing here we go one mini pieces alright let's put it back together let's try to turn it back on let's wake it up also no cracks then once it recovers we'll do it again so it survived drop one time for drop - the cameras are rolling three two one drop the camera turned off back stayed on mostly okay still no cracks alright so I'm going to do a standing height but like a little more drama this time okay this one could hurt time for the third drop three two one okay gotta say it doesn't feel very sturdy this phone but maybe that's working in its advantage like this thing it's never going to shatter because it's totally flimsy already all right let's try it on again seems to be totally fine drop test no big deal for today's wild-card test on the Samsung Galaxy s3 it's a bit of a key test you all know this scenario your keys or maybe in your purse and then you shove the phone in there or more common for you guys the keys are in your pocket and then you shove your phone in there so we thought we would just drag some keys along the screen and see if you actually need one of those overpriced screen protectors or not let's have a go don't look into members okay I'm going to take my roughest key here feel like I can't even feel actually like I can do this all day needs to be having oh I see some little scratches I can't tell if they're scratches or not takes like the mail key all the different ones a king of Spain memorial keychain phone came on was like knock it off alright so let's see let's come in close I can definitely see scratches but I don't think any of them rise to the level of true scratching so maybe if you did it 100 times a day you'd eventually start to scratch this guy but no problem now it's time for the dreaded water test we're going to dunk it in our fish tank here then take it out and put it in our recovery bag leave it for a few days and we'll find out in studio whether it survived here we go sleeeeep it for 10-15 seconds looks like our screen went off grabbed a bag filled with silica gel packets you could also use rice or quinoa something absorbent to put the phone in for just a couple of days let's get it out of here don't try to turn it on up here oh it's me it's making its little like water noises that it makes oh that's so messed up I know I know help is on the way okay we'll put it in here it does come back on now this one is amazing but just in case let's put it in here we're just gonna put in our little bag here we will check on it again in a couple days but I gotta say looking good so far still turning on stop it off now even though our galaxy s3 turned on while I was drying it off that actually might have killed it we did a couple more shots with it later and it wouldn't come back on cuz you're really not supposed to turn your phone on after it gets dunked in water so what I did is I took off the battery cover and took out the battery and I've been drying the whole thing in this bag of silica gel packets for about four days here we are at the moment of truth let's open it up I have no idea what's gonna happen here here's the battery put that back in put our cover back on and I'm so nervous power oh it's coming back on the speaker is working oh my goodness look at this thing this phone is amazing and I can officially declare the Samsung Galaxy s3 a torture test survivor