The words unboxing and review are common these days. When you hear these two words, you come up with an instant idea that it is a process of revealing a product where a tech youtuber convey his thoughts & opinion with regard to the specification of a product.
Did you ever think there is something else beyond the unboxing & review process? Let me tell you, tearing down a product is the latest and greatest way to review it because it actually reveals if the product is in line with the specification or not. It is a process of disassembling a product into pieces and revealing its specification in the real world. Under such a process there is nothing left hidden, moreover expose a product if there any hardware mismatch with the specification.
A company can easily claim they have introduced the biggest ever camera lens in their smartphone. Similarly, they can easily claim to have introduced significant upgrade in any hardware which can’t be seen on the surface of a smartphone. That’s why we need to teardown a product which always outsmart the unboxing and review processes.
Who is JerryRigEverything?
We get to see countless unboxing and review videos over youtube, but we barely get to see a teardown video of a smartphone. Hopefully, there is a popular tech youtuber known as JerryRigEverything, who teardown a smartphone and takes this process to an extreme level. His way of teardown a smartphone is not only to disassemble it, but to do scratch and bend tests and in this way he recently revealed and tested the durability of the iPhone Air, the slimmest ever Smartphone from Apple.
Since the launch of the iPhone Air, Apple fans were curious to know how durable this smartphone stands, because we still have a video over youtube wherein the iPhone 6 Plus can be seen failing miserably in a bend test done by unboxing therapy back in 2014.
Is the iPhone Air durable?
I am shocked to see durability of the iPhone Air.
Titanium is nearly twice as rigid as aluminium while being 60% more elastic than aluminium as well. The iPhone Air is built with titanium instead of aluminium iPhone 6 plus is built with, if the iPhone Air bends a little bit, then it should get back to its original shape because of titanium being more elastic than aluminium. Moreover, I am expecting the iPhone Air to be far more durable than iPhone 6 Plus because of its boxy design which enhances durability and titanium being more rigid than aluminium.
Words are not enough to define the durability test process of this smartphone.That’s why I am going to show you some photos I have taken from JerryRigEverything’s video which clearly shows how durable the iPhone Air turned out to be.
As you can see in the photo below, JerryRigEverything contributed his entire energy to bend the iPhone Air from both front and back side. Hopefully, the smartphone bent a little bit and got back to its original shape and moreover it neither breaks at all nor it causes any cracking sound.
The result of this bend test has literally surpassed the expectations of every smartphone user who was waiting for this bend test, even JerryRigEverything mentions in his video that this smartphone 100% passed his durability test.
He didn’t stop here and took this durability test to an extreme level because this smartphone was under extreme hype due to its slim design which raised durability concerns. That’s why he wanted to put this smartphone on a special bend test which he had never done before.
He took the iPhone Air to Crane Scale to find out the exact amount of pressure you need to break the smartphone or to know how much pressure this smartphone can withstand before it snaps.
As you can see in the photo below, the smartphone bent from the middle but the screen is still intact and functional despite withstanding the pressure of 90 kg and the cracking sound can be heard in the video since the pressure reaches around 50 kg.
You can see on the photo below, 97 kg is the exact number where the display snapped. the number which nobody would have thought.
Imagine, a 5.8 mm slim smartphone withstood the pressure of 90 kg and still remained functional.
The result implies that you don’t need to worry about the same bend issue which was there with iPhone 6 Plus. Moreover, if someone accidently sits on this smartphone, then it will remain intact and if it does bend, then it will get back to its original shape.
Upto an extent, the iPhone Air has proved that durability does not lie in thickness; instead it is a matter of premium quality material and a solid design which enhances durability.
