The ultimate Samsung Galaxy S9 durability test confirms what was already easy to guess - that you can't bend the phone with your bare hands or unintentionally scratch its beautiful screen.
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As robust as it is eye-catching, the hot new Samsung Galaxy Note 8 looks like it can easily handle the everyday pressure from typical smartphone users.
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Already hailed as the company's fastest selling device ever, the freshly released OnePlus 5 also shines in typical durability experiments.
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The Samsung Galaxy S7 edge has proven to not only be one of the best and most powerful phones of 2016, but also one of the prettiest ones. Now that being said, the difference between the words pretty and durable depend highly on the quality of materials, and with this phone your millage may definitely vary. It’s been a while since we’ve done a durability report, but a recent incident with the Galaxy S7 edge just warranted a call back to the series.Most of our experience with the aging of this phone will be part of our After The Buzz segment in a few weeks. This durability will ...
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We’re none of us fans here of intentionally breaking gadgets, but when a phone’s main selling point is durability, we try to find ways to test those claims. The tricky thing about rugged phones, there is no such thing as a truly indestructible device. If you try to break a rugged phone, eventually you will succeed. Still, we can learn a lot about how this gadget handled the abuse we lobbed at it.The Kyocera Duraforce XD gives off a monster first impression, but how well does that thicker, ...
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It’s not every day that a phone comes with a leather backing option. But Motorola has gone ahead and done just that with its flagship this year, adding to last year’s already-out-there wood and plastic options in a unique way. One immediate concern voiced by skeptics was the possibility that the leather may not hold up over time, while others suggested that the material would age beautifully just like a good leather watchband. Now that we’re a few months in with our own leather Moto X device, we’re ready to let you know just how well it’s aged in our full Moto ...
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It’s one of the top buzzwords of the year in mobile technology: the sapphire screen. More appropriately called a sapphire crystal display, its remarkability lies not in clarity or resolution or thumb-feel … but in saving us from our oafish, clumsy-handed selves.Sapphire crystal is hard, see – harder than anything on the good ‘ole Mohs hardness scale except diamond (as we discussed in a piece last year on
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The Moto X is now five-months-old. Our own Michael Fisher took a second look at Motorola’s 2013 flagship yesterday in episode 29 of After The Buzz. He found that despite how mediocre the phone was on paper at the time of its launch, the consensus hasn’t changed … at all. The Moto X is a fantastic smartphone we still would (and do) recommend for many. But there’s no point in rehashing his views on the Moto X in ...
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The Samsung Galaxy Note 3 has been in the market for almost two months today. There’s no denying that the company hit a home run with their third iteration of the world’s first phablet, and many of you either have one, or want one. If you received the Note 3 on launch day like we did, there’s a very big chance that you’ll already have a fair idea of how this product stands-up to the wear and tear of daily use. I’ve always been famous among my friends for how much I baby my gadgets. I’m not a real fan of cases, but the way I keep my devices in pristine condition ...
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The iPad Air has been in the market for almost two months today, so any of you who received your new iPad on launch day like we did, will already have a fair idea of how this product stands-up to the wear and tear of daily use. I’ve always been famous among my friends for how much I baby my gadgets. I’m not a real fan of cases, but the way I keep my devices in pristine condition is simply by handling them with care. I don’t jus throw them in a backpack without a sleeve, nor do I clean them with just any fabric. I’ve rarely ever dropped any of my gadgets, and even if ...
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If you’ve been paying attention to the Pocketnow crew the past few months, you’ll know that one of us is somewhat enamored of the LG G Flex. We spent much of this week’s podcast talking about our week with the unusual phablet, its curved casing a breath of excitement in an otherwise stolid and straitlaced world of right angles. But there’s more to the G Flex than the subtle hint of bananaphone in its ...
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The polycarbonate Nokia has a penchant for using has a reputation for standing the test of time exceedingly well. The matte finish may tend to gain a certain sheen as the finish wears some, but we’ve seen a few times before that it’s quite resilient against bumps, dings, and scratches. We were, however, somewhat concerned that the abnormally large camera hump would be susceptible to scrapes and scratching. How has the
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Last week, Brandon Miniman took us for a short tour of the iPhone 5 he’s been toting as a daily driver for the past four months. In that first device durability report, we learned what kind of dings and dents the newest iPhone can accrue over several months of case-less usage, and in today’s video, we’re turning the lens on Nokia’s Windows Phone 8 flagship, the Lumia 920. The 920 is a whole lotta smartphone, ...
