He seems a little overly critical to me. He makes a huge deal of the fact that your not touching actual metal. So it does have a metal body and it does have a pretty amazing coating. (I noticed on the black Pixel 2 that my fingerprints just fade away. Pretty impressive.) He talks like we've been cheated as it has a coating on it? Surely any phone will chip/mark when/if you drop it?
He did have some valid points of course, I don't watch many of his tests (if any) buy I assume that bending and splitting was bad? With the amount of force he was putting into it, it didn't surprise me. I would think that's a lot worse than you sitting on one though, no?
Personally I'd like to see factual 'scores' and how they match up. So he mentioned it lasted 5 seconds longer on the burn test than the V30, but is it still bad? How long do others last? How much force gets applied until it cracks, surely there's a more scientific way of testing/measuring? How much do other phones take?
Just watching that video, not having seen others, I'm only left with what he's saying is good or bad and as I say, it seemed like he had a bit of a slant on things?
Well generally, you’d expect a phone, if made of metal, not to split like it did. He mentioned that it’s the weakest point of a phone, yet Google decided to put an antenna line there, creating a weak point in the frame. Sure, it’s unlikely to happen, but he’s just pointing out that you need to be weary of it splitting.
Same with the coating - it’s a layer over the metal, but he’s just explaining how easy it is to scuff/wear off.
The burn test is mostly irrelevant, other than giving an idea as to how thick the glass is.
It’s a durability test, so the less failures or design flaws, the better. He’s really against the throw away culture, and thus expects phones to last at least 2 years
