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in front of me I have the newest phone from the company oneplus this is the one plus three I've previously tested the oneplus 2 and the oneplus X both of which survived my durability tests let's see what happens with this new design which is supposedly carved out of a single slab of aluminum the oneplus three was bigger than I anticipated it is the same size as my galaxy s7 edge after admiring the reflective logo on the back let's jump into the scratch test it does come with a pre-installed plastic screen protector so I'll remove that I have a set of pics that tell me where the hardness of the screen falls on Mohs scale of hardness each pick has a different material on the tip the oneplus 3 has Gorilla Glass 4 on the screen so it's no surprise that the glass does not scratch until a level 6 and much deeper groove is left with a level 7 pick but this is normal and on par with most every other smartphone that doesn't have a plastic screen like the galaxy s7 active the home button is made of ceramic which is awesome if you remember on my galaxy s7 and LG g5 scratch tests both of those have plastic home buttons that can scratch easily the galaxy s7 active even scratched to the point of not working anymore that won't be a problem with this one plus three there are zero scratches which means that the fingerprint scanner can last longer thumbs up for ceramic the 16 megapixel rear camera lens is made of glass so even though it protrudes out of the back of the phone a little it is resistant to normal scratches unlike the plastic camera lenses of the z5 premium and the blackberry prif clear pictures are always important onto that slab of premium aluminum the phone is pure metal so there is no thick coating of primer or plastic like you'll see on the LG g5 and you can feel it the phone is cold to the touch I tried scratching the reflective logo to see if it would pop out like the lumia 950xl or the Nexus 6 but it is very well embedded into the rear metal so it won't be falling out on its own so far this device is a champion the volume button alert slider power button and even the SIM card tray are all made of metal so there won't be any warping of plastic buttons like we saw with the old Evo phones even the speaker grille is made of metal little things like that add up when making a quality phone one-plus did not skimp on materials on to the flame test the 1+3 went with an AMOLED screen for this device so let's see how it holds up to the extreme heat the galaxy s7 edge lasted 14 seconds before turning white and not recovering as you saw at the beginning of this video it has a permanent white spot on the screen the oneplus three also made it 14 seconds before the pixels turned white but after removing the heat the screen slowly recovered and went back to normal it was cool to the touch within seconds onto the bin test while putting this much pressure on a phone at one time most likely won't happen in everyday life it does tell us if the phone will survive any extreme accidents and all of the tests together will show us what the phone will look like after 2 years of abuse cell phones are realistically the most abused pieces of technology on the planet so if you haven't subscribed yet I would recommend it it's free and ensures they won't be buying a cheap phone in the future the bin test scared me at first because the screen popped out of the frame but even after exerting a lot of pressure the phone still wouldn't snap remember that I've tested over 25 phones now four of them snapped catastrophic aliy but the rest survived the one plus three is a survivor even after bending both directions the front and the back there is no permanent damage and the best part is there's no kinks in the metal frame either some of the Huawei phones would have permanent damage or kinks next to the power button or volume buttons after a hard flex but the oneplus three can be straightened out to look just like new I'll open up the phone during my tear down and repair video to see what's inside and how to repair everything it's fun to analyze tech from the inside from a durability and build quality perspective this is one of my favourite phones so far this year I did do a behind-the-scenes snap story of the durability test on this phone I'll also be snapping the teardown process so if you're into disappearing videos head on over to my snapchat hope to see you around thanks for watching