Gadgetory

if you've just splurged on the new s8 the thought of this may give you nightmares Samsung has raised the bar and design with its new flagship phone slight metal frame curved glass on either side and an edge to edge screen that'll make you swoon except unlike the previous s7 the curves are not optional this time and while they are beautiful all that glass could make the phone more fragile both sides are made with the strongest Gorilla Glass 5 so in theory it should be tougher to crack than the s7 edge with Gorilla Glass 4 but is the s8 tough enough to survive these everyday accidents whether you're pulling your phone out of your pocket for directions or slipping it back into your purse you probably had a scare like this one so for our first test we'll be dropping it from roughly hip height onto the sidewalk looks like it landed on the middle border so I'm hopeful but let's take a look you guys can see it first oh we have the first crack on the back it's very very slight but no other visible damage just where it sustained the biggest hit it sustained enough damage to make you cry if you just bought this beautiful new phone but the screen is still intact so we're going to continue with our next test and go take some photos plus your two selfie sticks you'll probably be taking most of your pictures at around eye level and if your phone is as smooth as the s8 keeping a steady grip can be tough let's set our next drop at 5 feet landed face-up and I can tell you now the screen did survive so let's see you can take a look at it first oh so the back continue to break which is no surprise because it had already been compromised in our previous test there are now bigger cracks extending through the rest of the phone and down to the other edge but the screen is fine I am seeing another dent on the side but other than that all the damage is on the back you could probably still mask this with a good case so we're going to see what kind of damage this next test does this one is hopefully less likely but it still happens your hands are full and the roof of the car seems like a perfectly good place to set your phone on while you open the car door what's not good is forgetting to bring it in with you our Heights vary but we've set our next test at 5 feet 10 inches I really tried to have it led on the screen but it didn't I can see the screen and it looks ok I'll show you first again I'm more concerned about the camera right now oh it really doesn't have that much more damage than it already did and it landed on the street yeah I can see a lot of the same cracks I've gotten a little bit worse but not what I expected I expected it to be in spider webs and it did hit the screen there are some scuffs over here on the screen some dents but no cracks impressive so yes we broke the phone but after what we put it through I was expecting it to end up looking a lot worse than it did and solely based on our unscientific tests it seems like the screen side is better at withstanding the drops but it could have been a matter of luck and even if your phone were to land on the exact same angle from the same height on a similar surface you'd probably still get different results so put a case on that beautiful phone and definitely don't try this at home