Gadgetory

we have had the iPhone 5 in the house for less than two hours and over the objections of many in this building we're starting our torture test it's going in the freezer for two hours all righty good luck bye little buddy spilled even more wrong than usual there have been several CNET rescue attempts but we managed to keep the iPhone 5 in here for the full two hours let's see how it's doing right the bigger screen shows the how diddy the crystal pattern is it's my favorite part alright see nice and iced over well screen comes on no problem perfectly responsive look at that little a6 processor not fazed at all by the goal and look actually unlike the iPhone 4s the cold did not drain the battery at all and went in almost full and it's still almost full our iPhone 5 came through the cold test with no problem let's see how it handles the heat test a little change in the heat test we've decided in the interest of all of that plastic very close to heat sources we're going to try wrapping these in a towel so that we get a lot of heat but maybe not so much melting all right so wrap it up you may remember we did this with our iPad back in season 1 okay let's put our little look it looks like kind of like bread dough 200 degrees 1 hour sounds like our iPhone is cooked let's make that stop all right and see how it's doing okay extremely hot to the touch as well try to turn it on ooh yep we have our temperature warning fo needs to cool down before you can use it so that's such good feedback so we will indeed let it cool down and then we'll try to use it we let our iPhone 5 cool for about 15 minutes it's a little warm to the touch but otherwise seems fine let's see if our temperature warning is gone oh yeah performance seems unaffected still is a crazy fast all right and we think seems to be working just fine Hiep test not a problem let's see what happens if say we're sitting outside and we accidentally shuffle Puckett across the concrete it happens now let's see how bad it got Wow I think even some of the glasses chipped right yeah oh I could actually get a little cut right here you're gonna need a case iPhone 5 is already a little dinged up but it is time for the drop test again so light so easy to just sort of lose track of while I'm at the playground oh no Abbi the concrete we have some ship being on the front we've actually cracked the glass on the back it could have been already in a weakened condition but that was only one drop but I think we need to keep dropping it how about shoulder height okay looks like no more problems one more ear height if you only looked at it from the front you would say this bone is amazing it's this view that's the problem now let's see if the actual phone is still functional comes on looks like we don't have any screen damage like we did with the 4s so the phone is still functional but I think with a cracked back we're gonna have to call this one a fail still functional after the drop despite the cracks let's see how the iPhone 5 handles water oh no I dropped it in the toilet ah this is the part where I overcome my fear of germs screen still on by the way very similar to our iPhone 4s bubbling probably get it out a little faster than that if you really drop yours in the toilet but this is one thing that's pretty amazing about the iPhone actually both the 4s and the 5 now really not very affected by water the screen stays on there's no evidence of immediate shorting and that's with some pretty severe damage on the back that could let some water in just to be on the safe side I'm going to power it all the way down put it in our rice bag all the way off of course I cannot take the back off or the battery out to make sure we really get drying on the insides but it's not really acting like it has water on the inside check on you later let's see how our iPhone 5 did with the water test we've had it in a bag of rice for about 36 hours just to be safe now you remember it was on when it came out of the fish tank but sometimes the water sinks in a little later we did a little charging but I don't know how it's doing oh it's on screen seems perfectly responsive it's doing its thing that is pretty impressive just like the iPhone 4s this one has no problem with a short dip in a pool which is good news for a lot of you now I do also want to revisit the drop test at the end when I was a little bit shocked by all the damage that we had caused by dropping this tongue I declared it a failure but on second thought I think I have to take that back I mean it's totally functional if you put a case on the back you'd still be perfectly happy to have it so on second thought it's a pack overall I'd say the iPhone 5 is very tough but also not that tough compared to the Samsung Galaxy s3 which went through all the same tests this obviously came out pretty damaged and our s3 had no scratches at all that said any phone that can take a dunk and still come out working fine is one that you're gonna feel confident with I would just say get yourself a case if you don't want to get a case this might not be the phone for you and I do want to issue a little bit of a warning because this is my personal phone which I've now had for five days and the front the front glass is covered in scratches just from carrying it in my purse if you are the kind of person who really prefers to have a phone without a case I recommend thinking twice about iPhone 5 although I am going to take this one back to the store and see what they say