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so you know what's better than one drop test two drop tests I have two more brand new iPhone eights which apple claims to have the most durable smartphone glass ever but it's important to remember that even though it might be durable glass it's still glass and the unfortunate part about the iPhone glass is that it's incredibly expensive to replace even if you have Apple care the back glass replacement is $99 and after your to your Apple care is up or you don't get Apple care at all it's three hundred and forty nine dollars that's expensive for a back glass panel with Samsung phones you can usually replace that panel for about 20 bucks so there's a big difference today's drop test is gonna be sponsored by the Rhino shield mod case I'll be dropping one of the phones the silver one completely naked and the other one the black phone is going to have the Rhino shield mod case installed on it this says it's a super tough modular case that changes according to your needs so we'll put that tough part to the test let's get started so both of these phones are brand-new and 100% functional and the case that the black one is going to be wearing is from Rhino shield on the box that says its impact resistant to 11 feet but I've actually dropped a rhino shield case from over a hundred feet and have the phone survived so I'm pretty sure this phone's gonna be alright inside the box we have the bumper shield and as part of the mod part of the casing we have a back so you can have the case operate in one of two ways one is just the bumper shield or half the back installed as well since both the front and back of the phone are made from glass I am going to install the back cover just so I can avoid paying that 350 dollar replacement fee if I wanted to install just the bumper though I would just slip it into the case like so it would have a raised rubber lip around the front and the back to protect it from impacts even keeping the camera lens below that surface the case fits pretty snug all the way around the phone but does leave us enough room for the ports around the speaker the microphone and that charging port I'm sure if there was a headphone jack there would be room for that as well and the buttons still have a clicky feel to them getting the back glass protecting panel into the phone is easy enough just pulled out that rubber insert and drop the phone into the case not too bad if you're not a fan of the clear back they do have some designer versions but I'm gonna leave mine clear because we are dropping this phone and I want to see if the back panel is protected by the case the last cool thing is that this case actually comes with linz mounts so you can increase the power of your camera with additional lenses I'll be testing these out in a second but first let's drop these things just like last time I will have two phones recording in slow motion right now we have the Google pixel recording on this side and then we have the clear Galaxy Note 8 recording on this side the Rhino shield mod case does come in different colors I will have all of these linked down the video description if you want to check them out the nice thing about all the different colors of the Rhino shield mod case is that they don't absorb stains like from your pocket or blue jeans which is a little bit more than the pixel can say so I think one of the most common times that I've dropped my personal cell phone is when I leave it on my lap and get out of my car I'll leave that there for a second and try it with the Rhino shield mod case no damage done to the back of the unprotected phone back or front both seems to be working just fine and no damage appears to have happened to the Rhino shield either we'll try it one more time for good measure getting out of the car with the unprotected case and getting out of the car with the protected case it looks like we have one giant crack all the way through the back of the phone starting up here by the antenna line camera lens is still fine but now we owe a police this taking off the case of the Rhino shield just to double-check and everything is fine in front of the phone is also undamaged let's keep going and just for the record that is about a three foot drop from the edge of my seat all the way to the ground and the unprotected iPhone is shattered so now we'll drop the phone's from about waist high which is the second most common drop just pulling it out of your pocket and letting it go looks like the screen of the phone is totally fine and the back panel still has that same crack but we're still good and the Rhino shield is good on the front and good on the back we'll do another waist-high draw for good measure this is drop number four front of the phone is still good back of the phone use these exact same front of the phone is good and the back of the phone is still not correct now we'll be going about chest height this is drop number five take a look at the damage it looks like we have a couple more cracks along that side right there in front of the screen up now we have damage on the front as well we got a nick right there in the corner as well as a crack in the top the Rhino shield case we are looking totally good on the front and if we pop the case out it's pretty tight fitting case the back panel is still fine so we owe Apple nothing to fix this phone so far the unprotected phone now has screen and back panel replacements and with Apple's in-house repair costs it might be cheaper to buy a new phone at this point all right now we'll be doing head height as if it slips from your hand as you're talking on the phone taking a look at the silver phone same cracks as before nothing new yet and we have a new spiderweb in the corner of the screen pretty safe to say that this phone wouldn't survive any kind of drop over three feet now we have the 11-foot protected phone and the screen is still fine and the back panel is still good underneath that plastic so I'm about six feet tall I'm gonna raise my hand above my head and drop it from there just for kicks and giggles see what happens to both phones this is about an eight-foot drop give or take and it is pretty easy to tell that the iPhone 8 did not survive that at all even the camera lens is completely shattered on that one we are doing this drop test on asphalt to imitate a parking lot you know whether you're in your car and getting out dropping it as you're getting groceries both the screen and the back are completely obliterated taking a look at the Rhino shield case no damage on the front will pop it off and take a look at the back and the back panel of the phone is completely fine so now after having dropped four different phones in two different drop tests I think it's pretty safe to say that it doesn't matter what Apple says about their most durable glass ever glass is glass and it's going to break if it's dropped it's very unfortunate about their super high repair costs that I'm not a fan of personally I'll be trying to find a way to fix it cheaper than what they're charging as always but until then a case is a very good idea and the one we use today the Rhino shield mod case holds up pretty darn well like I mentioned before the Rhino shield case does come with external lenses we'll try out the macro lens on the damage done to the iPhone eight and this is the footage done with one of the macro lenses attached to the phone if we were to unscrew that lens the footage wouldn't be quite as close-up I'll also try out this wide-angle lens super big thanks to rhino shield for sponsoring this video by the way this drop test would not be possible without them just like a real camera lens that thing is beastly so here's some video with that wide-angle lens in place it's got quite a big field of view with not a whole lot of fisheye effect it's letting us capture quite a bit into the image I'm gonna unscrew the lens for kicks and giggles easy and we are much closer up I'll be linking all of those cases and lenses in the video description of this video so head down there if you need protection for any of your phones once again thank you so much for watching I don't always delight in the abuse of iPhones but sometimes it's necessary thanks ton for watching and I'll see you around