One other new smartphone means one other new sturdiness check from Zack Nelson, he of the favored YouTube channel JerryRigEverything.
This time it’s Google’s not too long ago launched Pixel eight Professional dealing with the standard scratching, scraping, burning, and bending concerned in Nelson’s difficult stress check.
“With Google promising seven years of updates, I hope their {hardware} can deal with seven years’ value of use,” the YouTuber says initially of the video, including: “In an effort to discover that out, immediately we’ll inflict seven years’ value of abuse.”
Following the preliminary scratch check, we are able to see that the show isn’t fairly as resistant as Apple’s Ceramic Protect show however performs on the identical degree as most different handsets with tempered glass.
Subsequent, Nelson’s field cutter causes the form of harm you’d anticipate when a pointy blade comes up in opposition to aluminum, and no, it isn’t fairly. And when the bare flame meets the Pixel eight Professional’s 6.7-inch show, the flame wins.
Being the identical measurement because the iPhone 15 Professional Max, whose again glass not too long ago shattered throughout Nelson’s bend check, and recalling how the Pixel 7 Professional suffered harm alongside the cellphone’s antenna strains in the identical check final 12 months, we have been significantly to see how the Pixel eight Professional dealt with some high-pressure bending.
Seems fairly effectively. Whereas it did creak like an previous tree swaying in a gale, the Pixel eight Professional confirmed no signal of caving in, and, encouragingly, the again glass remained intact. Nelson additionally famous how the cellphone’s antenna strains stood up, suggesting Google had finished one thing to strengthen that a part of the machine. Or that Nelson wasn’t forcing the cellphone fairly as exhausting.
General, although, we’re happy to report that the Pixel eight Professional fared slightly effectively in Nelson’s sturdiness check.
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