Gadgetory

exactly how durable is Nokia's latest flagship I'm Taylor Martin this is PocketNow and this is our durability report of the Nokia Lumia 1020 the Nokia Lumia 1020 launched here in the US on ATT towards the end of July and ever since I've been carrying the 1020 as one of my personal devices nearly every day like several of my colleagues here at pocket now I'm also not a fan of cases all my phones they come at the expense of beauty thinness and detract from how the engineers and designers intended for the phone to look and feel in the hand I've treated the 1020 just as I treat any other phone a review loaner or a phone that I shall out my hard-earned cash for generally this means I'm pretty gentle and don't toss or drop phones on tables instead I've gently placed phones on surfaces as to not unnecessarily scratch or scuffed them but I don't go out of my way or do anything special to make sure they don't get damaged the Lumia 1020 has been dropped in my pant pockets with keys and I put it in a work bag with other tablets phones cables and other miscellaneous items that could very well damage it almost every day so let's take a look at how the Lumia 1020 has held up for me in the last two months I want to start by saying that I installed a screen protector on my lumia 1020 a few weeks back this is something I don't normally do I've carried dozens of phones for months on end without too much trouble with scratches on the display however the Lumia 1020 which comes with the extremely durable Gorilla Glass 3 scratched on day one in fact between buying the phone at AT&T and shooting the new Nexus 7 unboxing and my office the glass on the front had half a dozen micro scratches on it from that point until I installed the screen protector I didn't notice a single additional scratch on the glass figure that one out but the condition of the screen particular before I took it off today should be telling of our lack of caution with this device as the protector itself has taken quite the beating in just a few weeks ironically enough the glass wasn't what we were most concerned with when buying this phone we figured the giant abscess around back would be an issue like most middle phones before it we imagined it would become scuffed and reveal unpainted metallic silver beneath especially since the back of the phone rests on the corner of the camera hump and doesn't even rest flat on any surface but we're happy to report that the camera hub is almost as good as new there are small signs of wear wear the very cool the hump appears smoother than the rest as if it's been polished but there are no noticeable blemishes whatsoever and the rest of the body is much of the same story it's practically blemish free there are only four points that show any sign of wear and tear and they're so small we nearly overlooked them all when searching for damage three of the four points are tiny dings all along corners likely from hitting a tabletop too hard one is almost exactly in the middle of the top edge on the backside another is on the top-right corner and is a very tiny indentation and the final ding is on the bottom left corner on the back side they're all so small you have to be looking for them and nearly have to squint to see them the fourth blemish is where on the bottom corner of the volume rocker where the bare metal is beginning to show again it's so small it's barely discernible being a matte finish plastic the tough plastic which has proven itself durable and resilient time and time again we'd never worried too much about how this phone would stand the test of time but we were surprised at how easily the glass scratched like Michael noted in his durability report for the 9:20 these are likely scratches on the oleophobic coating instead of the actual glass either way we're pleasantly surprised with the resilience of the 1020 and how well it's held up over the last two months that's all we have time for so if you enjoyed the video and found it helpful be sure to let us know by clicking the thumbs up button below and drop us a comment be sure to subscribe to the channel so you can see more videos like this one in the future and follow us on all the usual places twitter google+ and facebook at pocket now I'm Taylor Martin you can find me on twitter at casper tech and i will see you next time