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We Dropped $18,000 Worth of Phones, and These Are the Toughest (and Weakest)
Topic Started: May 22 2018, 09:35 AM (113 Views)
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https://www.tomsguide.com/us/smartphone-drop-tests,review-5431.html

We all know that feeling. You're walking along the street, answering a text message, when someone bumps you, and your phone goes flying onto the concrete. Will your phone hold up, or will it crack under the pressure?

At Tom's Guide, we test phones to see which is the fastest, which has the best display, which has the best camera and which has the longest battery life. But we've never tested to see which phone is the toughest. Until now.

To help you avoid finding out the horrifying truth when your phone goes clattering to the ground, we tested all of the major smartphones by dropping them over the course of four rounds from 4 feet and 6 feet onto wood and concrete — and even into a toilet — to see which handset is the toughest.

Good news: Chances are, your phone will survive a 6-foot fall onto wood and, if it's lucky enough to land on its edge, withstand drops onto concrete with minimal damage. Bad news: If you don't have a screen protector, there's a really good chance something's going to break.
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This is a pretty good article. They tested a bunch of phones and it kind of gives you a baseline for how tough each phone is.

Oddly enough the best phone on drop tests (Moto Z2 Force) is not fully waterproof but it did still survive the toilet dunk test. If Moto had just sprung for the cost of the waterproof coating they maybe could have had the unquestioned winner.

Of course in the end, if you are going to put your phone in a case much of the worry about short drop damage goes away.

Mind you, if you put a Moto Z2 Force into one of those waterproof cases that Otterbox or LifeProof makes then the thing would be damned near indestructible in a daily use setting.
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I keep my phone inside a nerf ball.

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Edited by _g R_, May 22 2018, 03:17 PM.
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