The iPhone 16 Professional Max has been out there for only a few days, and JerryRigEverything’s Zack Nelson has wasted no time in subjecting it to his brutal sturdiness check.
Posted on-line on Saturday, Nelson’s check has already racked up greater than two million views, suggesting there are loads of of us on the market very eager to see how Apple’s latest, largest, and priciest iPhone stands as much as a barrage of abuse, together with scraping, burning, and bending.
It’s exhausting to look at Nelson dragging the blade of his field cutter throughout the iPhone 16 Professional Max — certainly it’s exhausting to look at him drag it throughout any of the units that come his manner — however the train not less than affords some perception into the toughness of the glass and body when subjected such excessive acts. The favored YouTuber famous Apple’s current declare that this yr’s Ceramic Protect glass show is 50% more durable than the first-generation ceramic protect, and two occasions more durable than the glass on some other smartphone, however he nonetheless discovered it comparatively straightforward to scratch utilizing his varied instruments.
In attribute trend, Nelson drops in a couple of dryly delivered digs at Apple throughout his sturdiness check. This one, for instance, as he surveyed the three digital camera lenses on the rear of the gadget: “The cameras are lined up this option to movie in spatial video for the three individuals who personal Imaginative and prescient Execs,” including: “I might admit that filming at 120 frames per second in 4K would even be extraordinarily spectacular if Samsung hadn’t already executed it first of their S24 Extremely. However you know the way it’s over at Apple — yesterday’s tech for tomorrow’s costs.”
As ordinary, out comes the bare flame, which Nelson holds in opposition to the show of the iPhone 16 Professional Max. Impressively, after greater than 10 seconds of burning, the show reveals no apparent signal of degradation, although because the YouTuber says, finest not to do that at residence.
With final yr’s bend check of the iPhone 15 Professional Max producing a shock consequence when the again glass shattered on the primary bend, we had been notably eager to see how the iPhone 16 Professional Max fared. Did it get up? Properly, you’ll have to look at the video to search out out …
