Yes, the LG G6 is as robust as it is beautiful, containing just premium metal and glass to resist bends, scratches and general light abuse.
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As the name suggests, the Motorola Moto Z Force was primarily designed with durability in mind, while the standard Z makes no shatterproof display promises and caters to fashionistas thanks to a ridiculously slim 5.2mm profile.But there’s a certain build quality you probably expect from a $600+ phone, regardless of its branding or measurements, and although we’ve rigorously inspected both the Moto Z and Z Force of late, we ...
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Consumer Reports put the Galaxy S7 Active — a phone that should be able to withstand water immersion “up to 5.0 feet for up to 30 minutes” — to its water immersion test. It failed. It put another Galaxy S7 Active to its test. That one broke, too. The magazine decided that it could not recommend the phone to its readers.Samsung released a statement in light of that aversion, reading:The Galaxy S7 ...
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The Galaxy S7 Active is rated to survive under five feet of water for 30 minutes. That’s what IP68 is supposed to mean. And yet, apparently, two Galaxy S7 Actives couldn’t take the testing process of customer advocacy magazine, Consumer Reports.The outlet put one device into a water tank under 2.12 psi of pressure to simulate conditions just short of five feet underwater. After 30 minutes, the team found a damaged display, air bubbles visible in both of the cameras’ lenses and a ...
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He did it so we didn’t have to (ruin a review unit and get Sony representatives on our tail).One young Zaryab Khan — known as xeetechcare on most internet platforms — decided to take his Xperia X for a little dunk in “real water” and not the “fake water” that, apparently, his YouTube commenters thought he had. Take our advice, kid: you don’t ...
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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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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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