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hey what is up guys I'm Kay PhD here and today I'm going to be taking a look at the top five things in tech in the build quality department so I've seen all kinds of crazy devices like the Casio G 1 and the ThinkPad Toughbook that are extremely well built because they're intentionally ruggedized for this video we will not be including anything that is intentionally in that ruggedized department because that would be too easy these things that we're gonna be talking about today are the best build things in tech in both the ergonomics and the functionality and a quality department these things are absolutely all around just really well built things and you've probably already seen a lot of the things on this list if you're curious in any of them all the links are below let's get started number five is Gorilla Glass 2 it's one of the biggest names sort of every year in the sort of tech industry when you see the spec sheet and you roll down and you see Gorilla Glass a lot of people just kind of assume everything is Gorilla Glass but not all smartphone and tablet glass panels are created equal it's not scratch proof but it is subject to a lot of pressure especially when you drop it and Gorilla Glass 2 can withstand a lot more pressure than any other pretty much any other hardened glass that you use in a device out there Gorilla Glass one when it was first introduced by corning was really really strong but Gorilla Glass 2 is actually a thinner sheet and it maintains that strength regular glass will shatter after about 7,000 pounds per square inch or psi while Gorilla Glass has been known to withstand upwards of a hundred thousand psi so good stuff throw glass is actually found in devices pretty much everywhere HTC phones Motorola phones Nokia phones we see it all over the place in spec sheets the iPhone 5 does not use Gorilla Glass yeah number four in this bill quality Department is aluminum now there are plenty of things that are made of aluminum but will use a this mac pro here as our example aluminum is often used in the highest quality built designs in you know laptops and phones and just over all synonymous with high quality and the phrase unibody aluminum design which almost everyone uses all the time isn't necessarily always literally what it means but basically if you hear that it's aluminum unibody it's probably going to be built very well you can trust that things that are made of aluminum and will take a beating they maintain their shape their structure their rigidity and their lightweightness when they're under pressure and definitely more so than plastic now that perot happens to also be filled with aluminum so it's really heavy hmm it's also really sexy number three is this guy it's a GoPro I have a full review of this guy right here in particular the GoPro Hero 3 coming soon to my channel so definitely subscribe if you want to see that but basically the GoPro series is very well known for its compact nature and its ruggedness it's not necessarily built to be beaten and abused but they're very well aware when they build this thing that you're going to be beating and abusing it and attaching it to crazy things and dropping it off places and it actually comes with well you can get for it a waterproof housing so you can use this thing underwater you can attach this thing to a helmet I'm going to be eating some pretty interesting things with the GoPro when I do actually review it hopefully some things you guys haven't seen before but the GoPro Hero 3 is just a hell of a camera and it's got a really big sensor in it for some reason so they've gotten a lot of great features in this tiny little body and it's rugged last well number 2 is the HTC One X now I personally happen to think this is one of the best-looking phones of all time I'll include my review down below the like button but basically this is a really really really well built phone the tolerances were extremely tight not only does it have a Gorilla Glass 2 and an aluminum unibody design but it's actually good-looking compact nice specs it was a really good smart phone not very long after it was released a video was uploaded to YouTube of the HTC One X hammering and nail into a 2x4 okay I can't tell you how many times I cringed while watching this video and I would never attempt that with any of my phones but wow that's awesome and number one in the most well built tech the most durable the most rugged the most beastly yes probably already saw this comment and it's barely even able to be called tech but it's the Nokia 3310 this phone was released in 2000 and it had pretty average specs for a device that came out at that time it was also just a basic device for people who needed a basic phone because that's what people bought phones for back then this was a little bit on the chunky side I'll admit that it was 22 millimeters thick it had a one thousand milliamp hour battery on the back that lasted months and it had a display of I believe 84 by eighty four pixels monochrome display and you could take an axe to it Nokia nailed it with the build quality of this phone the actual shell of it if you drop the phone might pop off and that's okay because you can connect it back together and it continues working because the actual frame inside of that is pretty much undestructible there are videos all over YouTube of attempting to destroy this thing and there are memes all over the rest of the internet of people who have experience with attempting to destroy this thing you cannot break a Nokia 3310 if you bought one and you wanted to get rid of it you had to sell it because you were cursed you can't throw out a working phone like that the battery life also happens to last a really long time wanna set a month I wasn't joking it literally less a month on battery and you would think that every other phone that came out during that time was as durable as the 3310 but no just the 3310 the Nokia 3310 is officially Abbas and legend has it they're still around operating beating in the hearts of cities everywhere they're awesome so they go Tech has been pretty awesome and it's been well built recently I'll give an honorable mention shout out to the Oppo find five unibody well-constructed gorilla glass on the front steel frame if you want to check out the review click it I'll just leave that annotation and also give a shout out to the Nokia Lumia 920 which is another recent phone it's a Windows Phone but it's got a pretty solid build as well very similar actually to the fine 5 in its frame it didn't survive the sledgehammer test that the 3310 did but I'll tell you what it's a pretty darn good build quality phone on the chunky side again but nice I also want to give a special shout out to the iPhone 4 and the iPhone 4s which had a glass front and a glass back and the shout-out goes to them for being the most used shattered phones of all time I have never seen a phone that shattered that people continue to use I know a lot of people who use shattered iPhones which is fun for Apple I guess interesting yeah yeah so shout out to them for that either way thank you for watching have you ever used anything after it's broken like continue to use it I have but I try not to and also if you want to check out any of the things I mentioned this video I'll have links to like information about them below hopefully the Nokia 3310 links don't break things around them they're pretty awesome but check out the links and if you want to check out the rest of products feel free to do that yeah don't buy a 3310 you'll never get rid of it so difficult to do that alright thanks for watching and I'll talk to you guys in the next video you