Apple iPhone XS survives drop tests

Whether you're frustrated with a mobile game and throwing it across the room or having too many items in your hands to let the device slide, contact with the floor is inevitably part of the duration of a phone. For some devices, it's the end of their life, but according to CNET's iPhone XS crash tests, it will take more than a few drops for the phone to crash.

CNET has put the phone to the test through a series of drop tests that it performs on all devices, the same ones that led to a cracked iPhone X, one of the latest Apple devices behind the new iPhone XS and XS Max. While the tests are not scientific measures of the phone's durability and the anti-cracking nature of the glass covering the phone, CNET says the simulated drops are intended to replicate real-life examples of people dropping their phones on the phone. pavement.

During the first test, the iPhone XS was released three feet above the ground, about the height of a pocket to show what it would look like if a person lost the phone's grip immediately after removing it from his phone. poached. The phone was dropped on the screen, but it landed on the top edge of the phone before tipping face down. Minor scratches were found on the metal frame with the smallest notch in the upper left corner of the device, but there were no cracks in the same test that had cracked the iPhone X after a fall. Replicating the test again, this time with the face-up screen, he landed on the left side and suffered some additional imperfections on the frame, but the glass was intact.

The third test raised the challenge by bringing the phone to more than five feet high, with the fall plummeting. That's the height people usually took when they took a picture, said CNET, the steel frame breaking the fall. Landing in the upper left corner of the phone and bouncing, the device had small bumps in the corner that came in contact with the sidewalk, but other than that, no cracks were visible.

Finishing the test run with a final fall of five feet, screen side down, he landed in the upper right corner near the camera with cement debris transferred to the aircraft. With some bumps marking the raised edge of the camera, the camera's glass remained intact, with no visible damage to the phone.

The iPhone XS and XS Max are now available on order with shipping commencing Sept. 21.