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in front of me I have the huawei p9 the Android smartphone with dual Leica camera lenses on the back I do durability tests on cell phones if you are outdoorsy rock-climb do construction hike or have a generally active lifestyle you need to have a phone that will withstand any accidents out of 30 phones that I have tested so far only four have catastrophic we failed one of which is the Huawei Nexus 6p this phone the Huawei p9 was released seven months after the 6p will it have the same weakness or crinkles near the power button or were those seven months sufficient to correct any design issues let's find out if the p9 is stronger than the 6p let's start with the scratch test this screen has something called 2.5 D glass which means it has a very slight curve along the edge not as much as the s7 edge or the blackberry proved it's a very subtle curve I have a set of pics that let me know where the screen falls on Mohs scale of hardness not all glass is created equal phones like the droid turbo 2 and the galaxy s7 active scratch at level 3 the yumi super phones crashed at level 4 but this phone the p9 scratched at level 6 and a deeper groove with the level 7 pic this is the norm for smartphones these days you don't have to worry about keys or loose change damaging your glass screen thumbs up for this durable glass display so what's the fuss with these dual Leica cameras well theoretically the left lens takes monochrome pictures which are black and white and the right lens takes colour pictures and the software combines them together to form one higher quality or more detailed image and this feature doesn't work while recording video though as we saw in my camera test yesterday and it also turns out that Leica nor huawei manufacture this camera it's a third-party company called sunny optical I'll talk more about that during my teardown video if this phone survives the bin test the important thing is is that the lens is made of glass and is scratch resistant plus it will allow you to catch Pokemon and Pokemon go and that's really all that you need from a smartphone camera these days I initially thought that the back panel is going to be plastic because of how thin and light the back panel feels but you can tell by the sound it's making and the silver shine that it is indeed metal the fingerprint scanner is painted metal which is normal I scratched it pretty heavily to test its functionality and while it still worked after being scratched it only responded about 50% of the time the LG g5 fingerprint scanner would scratch far worse than this and still functioned 100% of the time so don't let your fingerprint scanner scratch the size of the device are made of metal and aren't coated with any plastic or primer the volume button is also metal as well as the very textured power button if we flip the phone around to the SIM card tray it is metal even the earpieces metal I'm very glad when the manufacturers stay consistent with their materials now onto the flame test on this IPS neo 1080p display this tells us how thick the glass is and how much heat the screen can take before reacting the Huawei p9 lasted about 10 seconds before the pixels went black and turned off normally the screen would still function over the next few seconds with the black pixels while they cool down and recovered but this digitizer stopped working I turned off the screen and turn it back on again to restore functionality to the phone and it did completely recover leaving no white burn marks on the screen like you see with my galaxy s7 edge onto the bin test remember that I test every new phone that comes out so if you haven't subscribed yet now would be a good time with the initial flex the screen pops out from the frame and then the metal strip near the power button cracks but there is no catastrophic damage or folding like the Nexus 6p which is a good thing durable phones are important to most people unless you want to be able to snap your burner phone in half like Walter White then you should get a 6p but this p9 is still functional which means it survives the bin test just to clarify even though the phone survives my tests I still recommend getting a screen protector and a case I always have a case on my phone even if I trust its durability my behind the scenes stuff can be found on Instagram and Twitter I even did a snap story about my editing process on the p9 camera comparison video I'll try to have the teardown video of this phone up in the next few days it'll be interesting to review this phone from the inside thanks for watching I hope to see you around