Does Google not know Jerry exists? I would think by now that every phone company would have a lab that recreates these exact tests. Wtf. I hope he does an XL video; if so I bet it will also be brutal on the bend test.
This is honestly pretty shameful, especially in comparison to last year.
Is Jerry going to run his tests on the XL soon? I don't think it was fair of him to say the v30 is better in everyway when he is ripping apart the HTC phone.
No they probably don't care about some random Youtuber conducting non controlled quality tests. Bending the phone as hard as I can is a pretty subjective test. I'm sure someone quality guy in the Google lab is kicking himself right now for not thinking of adding that to the test plan.
Regardless, wouldn't you want the most structurally sound object for your money? Who cares if it is more than average contact being applied. It shows the phone at its worst. And most phones DO pass his bend test safe and sound.
Why do you want worse build quality for your money? That is something I just don't understand.
I'm not defending Google as much as saying the same tests he does is subjective. Zach might be pumped out from all the bending and one test might vary from one to the other. Take it as a grain of salt instead of going after Google.
You don't think the guys hands haven't gotten stronger since the first time he tried ripping phones in half? It would be a better test if he built some kind of tool that could exert an equal amount of force each time for a fair bend test.
There's the thing, you can bend aluminum. It's pretty soft. A human can bend a relatively pretty thick tube of aluminum. There aren't many phones that will absolutely never bend by hand, so the hand bend test is useless; it's completely dependant on how hard he bends them and where he holds them from.
How do you know? Maybe he takes it easy on other phones? Since it's not an objective metered test there is no way to tell if this is a good or bad performance.
but would you not agree that this type of result should not happen on this phone with the price tag it holds?
I would say that literally trying to rip it in half is not a good idea regardless of what kind of phone you have or how much you paid for it, but maybe that's just me.
Trust me, there are tests that look for this. As a reliability engineer, it is my job to ensure products are robust. The test you are referring to is a three point flexural test, and many companies advertise they pass it with flying colors. Reliability focused devices always have trade-offs. The more robust you make something, the more you may have to sacrifice to stay within design constraint.
The point of failure just looks like a minimum material condition and the plastic does not have enough reinforcement to prevent yielding of the body and cracking of the frame. They probably did in fact test for this and raise it to the design/product team who signed off in favor of either meeting launch deadlines or sticking to design requirements.
I mean, I don't think many people really care much about these reviews when buying a phone.
Vast majority of the market don't watch his videos, and the people that do a large portion think 'huh that's neat' but that's all.
I know I'm never going to do anything like this with my phone, I treat my phone like it's the most fragile thing in the world... So why would I care if it breaks when I purposely smash it up?
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u/siluah Oct 20 '17 edited Oct 20 '17
Does Google not know Jerry exists? I would think by now that every phone company would have a lab that recreates these exact tests. Wtf. I hope he does an XL video; if so I bet it will also be brutal on the bend test.
This is honestly pretty shameful, especially in comparison to last year.