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so I've been giving Apple a hard time lately over the construction of their recent iPhones because they're so expensive to replace with the iPhone X it's 549 dollars to replace the back glass with the iPhone 8 plus it's a little bit cheaper but still incredibly expensive so today I'm gonna put my money where my mouth is and I have two brand new phones the iPhone X and the iPhone eight plus both of them have the glass backs with the new construction design and we're gonna drop them both with realistic drops and see when they may or may not break remember that drop tests are never conclusive with a larger sample size you can get a better idea of what's gonna happen I have done two drop tests in the past with regular-sized iPhone eights but I have never dropped these two phones so be interesting to see what happens plus I'll be attempting my own back glass repairs on these broken phones so I need broken phones in order to do that so it's all for a good cause Apple does claim to have the most durable glass ever on a smartphone so it'll be interesting to see what happens with this iPhone X and the new iPhone 8 plus let's get started so like always we'll have two smartphones this is the Galaxy S 8 plus and over here we have the Google pixel two both of these will be recording in slow motion as we do the drop test so I'll start with the iPhone eight plus it also has an aluminum frame which is slightly softer than stainless steel and can be pushed into the glass a little more easily now both the iPhone 8 plus and the iPhone X have a small plastic layer between the glass in the metal but since aluminum gets pressed in easier I'm going to assume that this one breaks sooner so I'm just gonna set this on my leg right now it's about three feet up or 1 meter give or take both cameras are recording and I'll just stand up so after the first drop it looks like the back is fine you get right up here on the corner next to the camera bump but the back panel is fine and the front is fine set that down and we'll start playing with the iPhone X or the iPhone 10 whatever you want to call it this one does have the stainless steel rails on the side which is a little bit harder than aluminum so my assumption is that this is going to break after the 8 plus but there's only one way to find out go ahead and set this on my leg and we will stand up looks like the back glass is totally fine front glass is still good let's try it again will do sitting down one more time because this is the most common type of drop just for getting it's on your lap and then standing up and the back glass this is amazing the back glass is completely shattered I'm impressed at how shattered that is from such a short drop Wow so this brand new iPhone 8 plus took only 2 drops from about knee height as it slides off my leg to completely shatter the back and now we owe a palay of money to replace this thing that is mind-blowing this wouldn't be an issue if we could just remove the back without destroying the camera and replace it you know with a third-party but what Apple does is that they replace the whole housing of the phone transferring over all the internal components because the back glass does not separate from the back housing all right now that the iPhone 8 plus is completely shattered let's go back to the iPhone X once again I think this one will last a little bit longer because of that stainless steel frame but let's find out it is on my leg standing up looks like the front is still fine the back glass is still totally fine no damage so hopefully that stainless steel side is absorbing the impact and not denting in to hit the glass so the iPhone 8 plus is completely shattered but we're gonna do another drop test anyway and see how long it takes the front to shatter now I'll be pulling it out of my pocket and dropping it from about waist height that time around it did fall directly on the screen as I flopped it out of my pocket from waist high the front of the phone is completely damaged whether it's from the glass slightly protruding above the edge of the aluminum right here or just the aluminum getting pushed into the top edge of the glass and breaking it that way either way the front and the back of this phone are completely damaged now from I think dropped two and three of this drop test so as far as most durable glass on a smartphone ever glass is still glass and gravity is still gravity but we're not done with the X yet let's keep going we'll pull it out of my pocket and let it hit the ground all right still nothing wrong with the X we have complete solid glass on the back and no cracks on the front we'll do one more waist-high drop with the X since the 8 plus is bit the dust yet again waist-high there is nothing wrong with the front of the phone still zero cracks on the whole front side of the device but on the back side right next to the camera hump there's the smallest of Nick's so I'm gonna assume that with the next drop or a drop soon after the whole back is going to shatter from that point because once there's a weak point introduced into the glass that's where all the damage happens we'll do one more from about chest high so it was wrong about where the glass was gonna crack it did not start from up by the camera hump it actually emanates from the bottom corner all the way up to the top but now the back glass is shattered and we owe Apple five hundred and forty nine dollars to replace it not because the components are expensive this back glass portion probably only cost about twenty dollars it's the construction of the phone that makes it expensive it is not removable and that's the bad part Samsung as you pay that 20 bucks get the replacement part and you're good to go so now the iPhone X the iPhone 10 has been damaged from chest-high we're going to do one more if it's like drops from your hand while it's up by your ear I'm about six feet tall about two meters give or take so let's see what happens so the front glass of the phone does have damage in that bottom left corner nothing too drastic but it is damaged and the back is now just shattered everywhere so overall I would say I'm pretty disappointed in the construction of the Apple phone I think they look fantastic I love the glass I love the metal the stainless steel is probably one of my favorite phone materials of all time but the way the back glass is adhered to the phone is incredibly stupid it is not repairable and it is incredibly expensive to replace for us as the consumers which means there will be a ton of these phones walking around in the wild with cracked backs from people who don't want to pay $500 to replace them so now that we know how the phones are constructed and how fragile they are it's time to make a decision and to me a case seems like a no-brainer in my past videos I did have a case on one of the phones that I was dropping and it lasted significantly longer than the naked phone and with the high price point cost of repair on these phones the risk is not worth the reward yeah the phones look good naked but they don't last long naked so yeah I would say a case is mandatory on both of these phones because you're basically buying a new phone with the price it cost to repair it definitely a poor decision on Apple's part let me know what you think though down in the comments I'm curious would you buy a phone like this and if you would buy an extremely fragile phone that's expensive to repair would you walk around with it naked or would you put a case on it as always thanks a ton for watching and I'll see you around