Gadgetory

I repair phones and make youtube videos so every time a new phone comes out I get curious as to how much abuse it can take before breaking today I'm going to give the durability test to a brand new fully functional HTC m9 to start off let's see how the brushed aluminum body handles my car keys even though it left some pretty heavy marks most of them can be rubbed off I do make constructive videos as well like the m9 repair video you see in the upper left hand corner I will also link that in the video description below if you want to watch that after this one if you take a razor blade and slice into the back of your phone it cuts pretty deep into the aluminum surprise surprise taking my razor blade and carving into the side of the phone doesn't do as much damage it takes that point to make any grooves let's try the front glass this is Gorilla Glass for the exact same stuff on the galaxy s6 so there's no surprise here that my keys aren't doing any damage to it the Gorilla Glass 4 is actually more hard than my keys are so neither the keys nor the razor blade can do any damage to the screen you can see the screen flex with how much pressure I'm putting on it now because the screen is so hard it does sacrifice a little bit when it comes to how brittle it is an impact or extreme pressure can make the whole thing shatter you'll see what I mean when I start testing the rear camera lens you can see that there are zero scratches on the screen this is super impressive to me even with a sharp razor blade it does absolutely nothing to the glass here's a fun little side lesson for you your eyes can't see infrared light but my camera can so if you take a remote control and point it at the camera you can see the infrared light pulses the phone also has an infrared light that it uses as a proximity sensor so that's what you see blinking at the top of the phone you can try it yourself with your own remote and cell phone camera back to destruction the front-facing camera is easily scratched it is not made of Gorilla Glass or sapphire glass the rear camera suppose we made a sapphire glass though and it would make it unscratched Bowl but due to the scratch proof miss it is much more brittle as you can see with hardly any pressure the back camera lens cracks probably because there isn't much structural support underneath it I expect this to be a big problem with people's m9 s in the future hit that like button if you're glad this is my phone and not yours just for kicks and giggles let's burn this guy I did all of these same tests on the galaxy s6 if you want to check out that video I will link it here and in the video description below the aluminum body holds up just as expected it is easy to wipe off the smoke marks the screen on the other hand the pixels stopped responding when there is extreme heat this screen did not hold up as long as the galaxy s6 did under flame but it still mostly recovered once the heat was removed and was allowed to cool off before we hit that climax make sure you're subscribed to my youtube channel this next scene is a little gruesome and I would hate if I lost you in a carnage let's move on to the bin test I thought the solid aluminium body would do a much better job of holding this phone together but I was actually really really surprised at how easy this phone was to bend it looks like the weakest point is right there where that power button is right smack dab in the middle of the frame it wouldn't even turn on now that the button is broken it really did not take much force at all to bend in half the closest thing that I can compare it to is taking three spoons and bending them with your hands that's how little pressure it would take to bend this phone so unless you're Tinker Bell don't sit on it long story short I am pretty disappointed in this phone not only is it extremely difficult to repair but it also royally fails durability on every account except scratches on the screen check out some of my other videos we have the m9 tear down an invisible charging station and my Instagram is pretty fun as well thanks for watching