Galaxy S20 Ultra vs. iPhone 11 Pro Max Drop Test! By PhoneBuff

It's that time of year again, we have the galaxy s 20 ultra in the studio, where we're going to be dropping it side-by-side with the iPhone 11 Pro Max a phone that, when it was first released, Apple said, was using the strongest glass in any smartphone. Of course, there's no way to know exactly what type of glass they were actually talking about, since they don't tell us, but, unlike Apple Samsung, does tell us exactly what kind of glass we have which, in the case of the s20 ultra, is Gorilla Glass 6 on both the front and on the back, which is probably a good idea to have on a $1400 smartphone. So if you plan on using one of these phones without a case on in this video, we're going to find out which one of these two does better when dropped in the same exact way round number one backdrop in three: two one so that backdrop shatters the glass on the iPhone 11 Pro max, but on the s20 ultra. The glass is surprisingly still intact, which you know could be due to Gorilla Glass 6, but we've seen Gorilla Glass 6 crack before so I. Think. The major factor here was that big old protruding camera lens due to the flat drop on his back from the machine.

The camera hump, actually took the majority of the damage here and enough of the impact to wear the glass in the back didn't crack. Now, of course, different angles of drops can obviously produce different results, but in this controlled drop between the two phones, the s20 ultra gets the easy win in round number one round number two corner drop to one: neither phone takes too much damage from the corner shop with the screens still remaining undamaged, despite those ultra-thin bezels. The real difference here is the iPhone isn't nearly as scuffed as the galaxy is thanks to its stainless steel frame, which gives the iPhone the win here in round number 2 round number 3 base drop to the base drop, does major damage to the iPhone 11 Pro, with its screen cracking on the left, edge and spider webbing all the way across the front, whereas on the galaxy s 20 ultra the damage isn't anywhere near as bad while it did crack the damage remained mostly confined to that left edge. I, don't know if this is due to Samsung using stronger glass than the iPhone or if the slight curvature on the screen somehow helps protect it, but either way it's significantly better result for the s20 ultra, giving it the win in round number three bonus round with both phones passing our 15 point inspection. They move on to the bonus round where, last time the iPhone 11 Pro max was able to make it through all ten bonus drops, it definitely wasn't pretty, and the iPhone did lose a major function with its rear camera system failing, but the rest of the phone from its display and speakers to the face.

I'd still remained fully functional. So, let's see if the s20 ultra can it do any better bonus drop number one in three, two one: okay, so that first bonus drop leads to some major damage. The glass looks significantly worse with it now shattering all over, including across the fingerprint sensor, which, while it didn't cause complete failure, the fingerprint sensor now only seems to work around 20% of the time. Everything else on the phone, however, still seems fine, so we'll keep ongoing drop, number two and then three two one two drops in and that top portion of the screen no longer works, and the phone is also locking up intermittently with the entire touchscreen becoming temporarily unresponsive, almost randomly for twenty to thirty seconds. At a time now we couldn't stop the test right here, but because the phone technically recovers and could make an emergency call we'll go ahead and continue to and after nine brutal bonus drops.

The s2000 trial finally calls it quits, there's now major damage to the OLED display across the bottom, and the phone is just randomly touching at different parts of the screen making it unusable. So not the best result here and definitely worse than the iPhone okay. So, with all four rounds in the books, let's take a look at the scorecard. In the first round, the s2000 ultras rear glass was able to remain fully intact, while the iPhones glass was completely shattered. In the second, the iPhones stainless steel frame was less scuffed in the s20 s aluminum in the third round, the s20 ultras front, glass, sustained, is significantly less damaged and then, finally, in the bonus round, the iPhone was able to make it all the way through, while the s20 ultra lost functionality in both his fingerprint scanner and its touch screen very early on.

But in the end, the attorneys' performance in the earlier rounds helped a score more points overall, making it the winner in this drop test anyways. That is it for me in this video. Thank you guys for watching and as always I'll see you in the very next episode.

Source : PhoneBuff