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I have a brand new Galaxy S nine and you know what that means we are going to drop it now we ran a similar test last year with the s8 and well this is how it ended up and since the s9 has the same Gorilla Glass 5 both on the front and on the back of the phone I'm not expecting it to do any better in fact it might actually do worse because it is slightly thicker and slightly heavier but that's what we're gonna find out we're starting this off at hip height which is about three feet onto the sidewalk face up here we go so it landed face up just as I dropped it so I don't know what the damage is like but let's take a look I'm a little bit afraid to turn it over I'll show you guys first oh man okay so I want you to take a look over here on this side which is probably where to hit first it's got significant damage some spiderwebs and cracks going down to the bottom of the phone but over here on the top there is a slight scuff on the frame where it probably hit next and then just the tiny bit of a scuff over here on the other corner but as I said before this side was the one that sustained most of the damage so if you just bought your brand new Galaxy S 9 this is pretty devastating however in our last drop test of the s8 the screen managed to remain intact so we're going to test it out it's dropping its screen side down to see if this side is any tougher than the back now bear in mind it's already been compromised by the first drop here we go that did not sound good but let's take a look I can already see that the back the cracks on the back actually expanded and that's what the front looks like I'm gonna take a look whoa nothing on the front Wow so take a look here it definitely landed screen side down it didn't even sound great at the time but it looks like it survived the hip height drop test without even a scratch now it's interesting because the back however continued to break so one of the fractures got longer it went through the entire middle of the phone and over here through the side but what you really care about is still safe so exactly what happened with the Galaxy s8 that the screen survived in the back did not so even though the glass or samsung says that the glass is the same it seems like somehow the screen is sturdier so our galaxy s 9 did break on the first wall however the front never did almost exactly what happened with last year's s8 now does this mean that Samsung is somehow reinforcing their screens now I don't know I can't answer that take this test with a grain of salt because it is by no means scientific but I do know if the sidewalk is very deadly and these phones are fragile so please put a case on your brand new Galaxy S 9 and make sure to watch the rest of our draw tests at cnet.com