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ever since the nokia 6 was launched at the beginning of this year I've had so many requests for it everyone is curious at the new Nokia smartphones have the same nuke proof durability that the old 3310 said and well there's only one way to find out I have tested the durability of every major smartphone that gets released over the last few years I think I've tested about 60 different phones now and it's Nokia's turn pulling it out of the box it already has a heavy feel to it which in my book is a good thing I purchased the slick looking matte black version as always we'll start with a scratch test I have a set of most picks that allow me to differentiate between different materials plastic scratches at a level 3 tempered glass scratches at a 5 or 6 and sapphire would be at an 8 or a 9 the nokia 6 has advertised Gorilla Glass 3 on the screen and it scratches at a little 6 perfectly on par with other flagship devices onto the fingerprint scanner now this is pretty sweet it's not a button just a pad but it's totally scratch proof my razor inflicts no damage to the scanner there are only a few other phones with durable fingerprint scanners like the iPhone 7 and the one plus three most phones scratch the eight megapixel front-facing camera is also under the front screen glass so it is scratch resistant as well but the earpiece on the other hand it seems to be made out of a super fine cloth almost like the cloth we saw inside the pixel this one can't come out now obviously I pulled this out on purpose but over time on your own phone through heating and cooling and normal phone abuse the little bit of adhesive holding this earpiece in place can become weak I imagine after a year or two of this rattling around in your pocket your phone might look the same as mine it's an unfortunate material choice I'll just stuff it back in and pretend like nothing happened nailed it might want to turn up your volume for this next part it's real metal definitely one of my favorites down and feels on a smart phone now today I'm going to switch things up a little art class with Jerry is temporarily canceled last month I had about 50,000 views on my channel from the lovely little country of Finland and in Finland there is a tiny town that's actually called Nokia chart about here turns out Nokia originated in Finland would have thought if any of you are planning a vacation to Nokia my map will help you get there it's a good map probably the best map the 16 megapixel rear camera protrudes quite a bit out of the back metal housing not quite as good looking at the completely flush LG g6 but the Nokia 6015 camera lens I originally does nothing to it it's good to see that most cell phone companies these days have stopped using plastic on their camera lenses the flash is still plastic but that's fine since light will still flow through no matter how scratched it is the top of the phone is metal the Nokia six does have plastic antenna lines like all metal phones do these are similar to the wraparound corner design that the iPhone 7 currently has but this phone has one distinguishing ly useful feature that the iPhone 7 does not have a headphone jack the volume and power buttons are completely made of metal as well so no matter where you are holding this phone you'll be touching metal I'm not going to lie it's a good feeling phone on the outside but it's what's on the inside that really counts we'll find out more in a second the phone does have stereo speakers that's a bonus but it is still living in the microUSB world I'm starting to like this USB C thing more and more so Nokia needs to get with the program the Nokia 6 has a 5.5 inch 1080p IPS display which means that if I take a lighter - it will get about 10 seconds of life before the pixels go black and turn off luckily though with IPS displays the pixels do recover and within a few seconds of the heat being removed they'll be back to normal now I'm still using my galaxy s7 edge that I tested about a year ago on my channel the burn mark on the AMOLED screen doesn't go away so don't try this at home kids I'm a professional the ultimate test to build quality is B Ben tests at about 60 phones that I've tested in the past few years only five have catastrophic we failed and snapped in half this is the first Nokia smartphone that I've ever tested so I was nervous but this is literally one of the most solid devices that I have ever felt there is basically zero flex to the frame pressing from the front or the back this Nokia six is definitely a contender for the most durable phone of 2017 the only thing I would change is the earpiece fabric overall and very impressed with Nokia so far 2017 been a pretty fantastic year for phones I'm looking forward to testing the Galaxy s8 in a few weeks so make sure you're subscribed to that and let me know in the comments what phone you want to see me test next I'll be reading them thanks for watching I'll see you around