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all right today it's time for the 2018 smartphone durability Awards I've tested quite a few phones this year and most phones survived my durability test there are a few that didn't like this iPad pro it didn't quite make it now you might correlate jerry-rigged everything with cell phone destruction probably because the sound of my razor blade is that in your brain but in reality pretty much every single one of these smartphones survived my durability test most of these phones are alive even after the durability test and the teardown in fact about 40 million people watch my teardown videos the repair videos to learn how their phone works from the inside to see if they can be repaired and lasts as long as possible because that's the goal this year we only had one phone failed completely and one tablet but were just talking about phones this time around last year we had two phones fail and the year before we had three so smartphone build quality is improving and I hope my videos have a little something to do with that the manufacturers are paying attention constructing their phones better and it's a win-win for everyone people ask what phone is my daily driver or what phone I use the most often and currently I'm using the Galaxy S 8 plus a phone that's about two years old as the phone that I carry around every day I legitimately think that smartphones have been so good for so long that it's 100% not necessary to upgrade every year every time something new and shiny comes out because each new upgrade is just marginal over the previous one but when it is time to upgrade it's good to choose a phone that can stand the test of time and survive as long as you need it to which brings us to this year's durability Awards let's start with the most repairable phone of 2018 to be totally honest with your 2018 was a terrible year for smartphone repair ability pretty much every single one of the smart phones on this table is glued shut which is a win and a loss glued shut usually means that there's water resistance which helps the phone last longer which is our goal but it also means it's harder to repair when that time comes because screens do crack glass backs do crack phones get damaged or batteries wear out and need to be replaced if I had to pick the screen replacements of 2018 it would have to go to the Nokia phones the Nokia seven-plus and the Nokia 6.1 are constructed in basically the same way I ran out of time to make the full teardown of these phones but basically the screen lifts off first and there's just two screws and is done the screen replacement is finished there's a metal plate under the screen that stops damage from happening to the internal components or puncturing batteries and a screen replacement can be done in ten fifteen minutes it's pretty simple generally speaking with most glass back sandwich phones like the majority we see here on the table the screen comes off last which makes it a little bit harder but Nokia has a very good design and kept repairability in mind so the most repairable smart phones of 2018 go to Nokia no manufacturer wants their consumers to get in and repair their smart phones the longer a customer keeps their phone means the longer the manufacturer has to wait before they come back and buy another one manufacturer loses money when consumers repair their phones but there's only one company that goes above and beyond to keep the consumer out of their device and that's Apple which brings us to the least repairable smartphone of 2018 the iPhone 10's max yeah the screen can be replaced which is nice but there's four different kinds of specialized screws you need a special tool kit in order to repair the screen on the 10 s max that's fine definitely not ideal but survivable the problem with the 10 s Max and all of the recent iPhones from this year and last year is the glass back is impossible to replace Apple themselves can't even do it they replace the whole housing of the phone and charge people who are out of warranty 599 dollars to replace the back glass panel if it's cracked that's ridiculous with the iPhone 10 offer it is 399 dollars to replace the back panel but still you can almost buy a new phone for that this is an intentional decision on Apple's part just to get consumers to buy a new phone instead of repairing the old one and because of that decision it effectively earns them the least repairable smartphone of 2018 congratulations for example just to prove my point you can replace the back glass panel on the Galaxy S 9 for about 17 dollars on Amazon pretty simple with the LG G 7 it's a little bit more expensive you're looking around twenty-five or thirty dollars and with the pixel three your and right around $100 to replace the back glass panel all of these are normal doable sustainable repair prices for this back glass panel on all these phones apples price of almost $600 is downright outrages but you don't get to be one of the richest companies in the world by being nice to the consumers personally I think the die-hard Apple fans are gonna continue using the iPhones until they get burned a couple times and then hopefully apples you know changes the way they construct their phones because glass is glass and it will break eventually which brings us to the most musical phone of 2018 the huawei mate 20 pro that's not a real award I just want to do that again for the most innovative phone of 2018 it was a pretty tight race we had a lot of unique phones coming out this year like the gaming phones from the razor phone to to the ROG phone and weird quirky phones like the red hydrogen one with its holographic display we even had some dual screen phones one that folds in half the acts on em and one with the built-in screen on the back the new via X but my favorite phones this year are the motorized camera phones like the find X with this camera that pops up out of the back and my favorite the vivo NEX s it's motorized camera system is one of the most innovative things I've seen in 2018 I don't think motorized camera phones are the way of the future I think other solutions like under display cameras or screens on the front of the back are gonna take over but I'm gonna enjoy the motorized components while they're here and the vivo NEX s wins the most innovative smartphone of 2018 so on my channel we have a few different things we do throughout these videos the one of which is art class with Jerry and another one as we make smart phones transparent so the best-looking phone from the inside this year is got to go with the pixel 3 with literally no modifications done to the internals of the phone just removing the color on the outside of the glass this is quite possibly one of the best-looking transparent phones of all time and that's without Google even trying to make a clear phone yeah the vivo INXS with this motorized camera looked cool but that one required a bit more modification than the pixel 3 runners-up for the most beautiful phone on the inside probably goes to the razor phone too with its massive water bed like vapor chamber inside of the phone obviously the phone still works without the vapor chamber inside it's just less efficient copper and the liquid help keep things cool for the long-term and while it's under heavy load from gaming another runner-up for the most beautiful phone from the inside would be the LG G 7 this awesome color you see around the outside and the frame continues all over the inside of the device the teardown of this one was pretty beautiful now let's get to the most and least durable phones of 2018 starting with some of the budget phones the most durable budget phone of 2018 was a hard choice because most smartphones are good these days and even budget phones are behaving like flagships when it comes to durability personally I feel like a phone with glass on both sides eliminates itself from the most durable smartphone because there's more things that can break so even though the one plus 60 is an absolute fantastic phone but because it has glass on both sides it's not the most durable phone we have phones like the poco phone super cheap super powerful but for the most durable budget phone of 2018 I'm going back to the Nokia Linna the nokia 7 plus it's a pretty big phone not only is it one of the most repairable phones of 2018 but it's also one of the most durable with metal on the back glass on the front but a pretty much on flexing rigid design nokia has yet to build a weak smart phone remember that with budget phones any smart phone is budget if you just wait long enough with smart phones as good as they are even last year's phones can't compete with this year's current lineup if you're tight on cash buying a brand new 2018 flagship is not a very smart decision it depreciates very quickly and a phone from last year or the year before can accomplish the same thing so you don't feel like you have to buy the latest and greatest one thing you don't want to buy though is a weak smartphone and that brings us to the least durable phones of 2018 strangely enough huawei had two phones that cracked during my durability test they kept functioning so technically they didn't fail or end up on my shelf of shame but it's interesting that the huawei mate 20 pro and the huawei P 20 pro were both phones that cracked during my durability test no other phone snapped during the bin test except for these two the only phone that absolutely failed though was the up affine 2x this little guy is the motorized smartphone with the camera you know that pops up out of the top but could not hold its own during the bin test yea the Aqua find X was one of the most innovative smart phones of this year but with how abuse smartphones are innovation doesn't count for a whole lot if it can't survive the test of time one phone that can survive the test of time though is a newcomer one that I was not expecting the Kyocera dura force pro two is the most durable smartphone of 2018 and let me tell you why not only is a thing feature-rich watertight housing wireless charging headphone jack but it also has an almost scratch proof screen you know how most of these smartphones basically all of them scratch at a level six with deeper grooves at level seven the Kyocera has a sapphire display meaning that it won't scratch until a level eight both on the screen and the rear camera lens the Kyocera dura force Pro is seriously one of the most premium lis built rugged phones I've ever seen and wins the most durable phone of 2018 Kyocera hasn't been a mainstream name up until now but I'm excited to see what they have in store for 2019 hopefully this wasn't just a one-hit wonder 2018 was an awesome year for smart phones a lot of these designs and features no one saw coming there was a lot of surprises and 2019 is gearing up to be the exact same way we don't know what's in store hit that subscribe button so you don't miss any of it and give me a thumbs up if you're glad that my phones are the ones being tested and torn down so your phone can be protected thanks ton for watching and I'll see you around