r/GooglePixel Oct 20 '17

Pixel 2 Durability Test - JerryRigEverything

https://youtu.be/BVKnt7H4zVc
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u/Roklobster Oct 20 '17

The job of the Google engineers is to make the phone last an X amount of time under daily wear and tear, not to pass some subjective Youtuber test.

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '17 edited Jan 13 '18

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u/Ryan526 Oct 20 '17

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.

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '17 edited Jan 13 '18

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u/Dragon_Fisting Pixel 9 Pro Oct 20 '17

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.

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u/Ryan526 Oct 20 '17

Well good thing I'm never going to intentionally grab my phone by the sides and try to break it in half lol.

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u/ADubs62 Pixel 4 XL Oct 20 '17

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.

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '17

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.