Zach Nelson, from the popular YouTube channel JerryRigAlljust announced its least durable and most durable phones of 2024.
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Now, as anyone who’s watched his videos knows, Nelson knows a thing or two about phone durability. For years, in the name of research, he scratched, scraped, burned and bent large numbers of new smartphones to see how they would perform. And usually the result is not very pleasant.
Talking to a table full of phones and tablets that Nelson has smashed over the past 12 months, the tech YouTuber searches Huawei mate three times the least durable phone of 2024. The company chose it because “not only does it have a very sleek center screen, but also because when closed, that center screen is exposed to the outside world. It also sucks up rocks and dust like a vacuum cleaner, but the screen, which we already know, gets scratched. [fácilmente]“It’s like walking around with a raw egg in your pocket.” He admitted that the phone’s design is “really cool” but added that it’s definitely not “super secure.”
In the original video showing the Mate XT’s bend test, Nelson points out that the phone actually has sensors that vibrate to notify you if you bend any of the three folds in the wrong direction. “This is the first phone that begged for life during the curvature test,” Nelson joked before snapping a photo of the leftmost screen with a shiver-inducing crack.
As for the toughest smartphone of 2024, it’s the extremely durable Armor 24, which Nelson says “has enough built-in protection to survive a steamroller.” Armor 24 is like a brick, so Nelson had no chance of breaking it in half. To see which two phones he chose as finalists in the “most reliable” category and which phones won in the “most/least repairable” category, watch Nelson’s video at the top of this page.
Source: Digital Trends
