The iPhone 16 Pro Max has been out there for just some 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 quite a lot of people 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 onerous to look at Nelson dragging the blade of his field cutter throughout the iPhone 16 Professional Max — certainly it’s onerous to look at him drag it throughout any of the gadgets that come his means — however the train not less than provides 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 Defend glass show is 50% harder than the first-generation ceramic defend, and two occasions harder than the glass on another smartphone, however he nonetheless discovered it comparatively simple to scratch utilizing his varied instruments.
In attribute style, Nelson drops in a number 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 machine: “The cameras are lined up this approach to movie in spatial video for the three individuals who personal Imaginative and prescient Execs,” including: “I’d admit that filming at 120 frames per second in 4K would even be extraordinarily spectacular if Samsung hadn’t already finished it first of their S24 Extremely. However you understand how it’s over at Apple — yesterday’s tech for tomorrow’s costs.”
As typical, 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 exhibits no apparent signal of degradation, although because the YouTuber says, greatest not to do that at residence.
With final yr’s bend check of the iPhone 15 Professional Max producing a shock result 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 rise up? Properly, you’ll have to look at the video to seek out out …
