iPhone 12 Bend Test By Unbox Therapy

Today's episode of unbox therapy is brought to you by later case the thinnest coolest case for your new iPhone, 12 or 12 pro and, of course, the new gorilla glass screen protector. From later case, I will link both of these down in the description. You should go check them out if you're picking up an iPhone 12. Today is a little of a throwback, my goodness it feels like many years ago, I was sat at a table kind of like this. What's up guys Lou here back with another video, and then I filmed a little video about an iPhone 6, iPhone, 6 plus bend test, in which I picked it up and bent it with my hands and then well. A number of people watched that video and it I guess it kind of made a little of an impact.

Now since then, I sort of backed off the bend test idea. Others have assumed the role, but this release the iPhone 12, has been met with new curiosity in the department of durability, and I've seen some tweets getting tossed around. Regarding the ceramic coating on the front of these models, and some and some other tweets questioning the durability of the stainless steel frame on certain colors of the pro model, so it's just since it's an all new design. It makes sense that people have questions about long-term durability. It makes sense that people are curious now.

The other reason that we're here is that these are impossibly thin phones, it's what makes them so cool it's. What makes them feel so different in your hands, they're just really, really thin. Now I have two models in front of me. I have the pro model and the regular model and the reason I've got two of them is that the construction is different and there's quite a key difference. Actually, the frame the structure of each of these is uh made of a different material.

So, on the pro side, we have surgical grade stainless steel, acting as the backbone for the device and then over on the non-pro side. The standard iPhone 12 we have an aluminum frame, which is it tending to be slightly softer. The whole thing feels lighter and probably will be a little easier to bend out of the two now a little of flexibility is not necessarily a bad thing. I've seen a couple of tweets. Actually one tweet comes to mind from max Wabash his camera module on the back of his iPhone 12 Pro, actually cracked, putting it down on the table.

Now I realize there's a lot of these devices out there, and you hit a certain number you're dealing with glass. It can crack, it can scratch uh. Sometimes it just goes that way, but the reason I'm bringing it up is that when you have a more rigid design, a more rigid material like stainless steel, then maybe you have a slightly higher tension. I don't know I'm just I'm just putting that out there as a possibility for when you place it on the table. However, once you put a case on it particularly case with coverage on the camera department- you're, probably okay, with that all right.

So the reason I have this stack over here is. I also want to remind you that I did an unboxing video of every single color of the iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro and yes, I've got a bunch of extras so make sure to subscribe for an eventual giveaway of the new iPhone, 12 and 12 pro all right. So first things first, I think I want to start with this one. I have selected the red model of the regular iPhone 12, and this actually is a bit of a controversial color as well, because people are saying it doesn't really look like product red anyway. This is their red one, and I just want to show you guys.

It's the same one from the unboxing video, and it's I mean the cable is not even undone here and really the only thing that happened. It's been powered up and the sticker from the screen has been taken off. I'm going to show you guys in a moment here that it is a fully functioning, regular, iPhone 12. There you go. We have the setup screen, it says hello, so it's a fully working device, and I'm going to go ahead this time around, because this device is glass on the front and the back.

I'm going to go ahead and put some gloves on. These are look at that. That's the premium defense a4 cut resistant glove. So this should that should be enough, we'll find out now any phone for the record. You try hard enough.

You can bend pretty much any phone, but the question is just how hard is it to bend? And the curiosity for me is around the different materials in use and the difference between the pro model and the non-pro model when it comes to durability. This is a crazy, thin, aluminum device. Aluminum is a fairly soft metal. At least the frame. The glass is probably acting as more of the structural base here anyway, so screen's turned on.

I'm going to turn this to the side right here. Hopefully, you guys have a decent, visual and uh. Let's go ahead and apply start to apply some pressure here. Wow, for the record, I haven't done been test in a long time, but that is sufficient pressure in my mind. I don't even think I have a bend on there yet now.

I could probably this way. Furthermore, I could probably do it. Let's see cool wow, wow, my goodness, do you have anything on it right now? No, I don't have it even I don't have it bent at all, maybe the tiniest shred can you show this is aluminum. This is a light phone. It goes to show you the development that apple has done, which is so much different from the last time around I mean I was there with the iPhone 6.

I just I, honestly. If it didn't bend easily, I wouldn't have. Even I wouldn't even have a video I wasn't going in there with the iPhone 6 plus thinking, I'm gonna. Do this real easy? It had come. The initial inclination for that video had come from a report from my cousin who had bent the phone in his pocket when he was snowboarding, and I was like no way when it was brand new.

That aluminum was so much softer and obviously now in regular use. This thing is not going to bend on you. That is incredible from apple now, let's put it this way and just check. This is how you would check for a bend, because you would have a gap on one edge, nothing wow! Well, I might as well pull out the pro model. I thought I was going to have to replace this thing because I want to have one of each.

I was like I'm going to have to go, find another red one to keep the collection together, but that is really promising. That's real this! This I'm the same guy who easily bent the six okay. I have a bit. Do I have a bit? Where am I even looking there? No, I don't even have a pen. How do you have a bit of apple wow holy smokes, you're done did it I fully expected when I saw how thin this was.

I felt the alum I fully expected, but it goes to show you the glass from a structural perspective as opposed to that sheet of aluminum. They were using in the old days. It's a huge improvement. Is there any need for me to even look at the pro model? Look, you can sit on the thing I could use some contraption to bend it, but this is coming from a guy with a history. In this thing the 6 and 6s.

Maybe I gave up doing it around the 7. I do not believe this is in the realm of possibility that on regular everyday use, based on the amount of force I applied to it, that it's going to be an issue for you having this thing bend as thin as it happens to be- I mean apple- has put. They definitely put some focus into the structural rigidity of this thing, even on the aluminum non-pro model, which is still flat, and I'm really I'm telling you I'm really reaming on that. Okay, this is the pro model surgical grade stainless steel, supposedly, which I would believe would be stronger than the aluminum. But who knows, I mean, there's probably other structural uh decisions that exist in here.

I don't know the difference anyway, so on this model, we'll see how the glass holds up as well. So I'm going to go ahead and, let's just boot this one up make sure we showcase that it is a working model fresh out the box from the unboxing video unboxing, every single iPhone 12. Do you have any damage on that red? No, there's, not a speck of damage on that red. That red is not damaged at all. I mean I could hear you know a little of squeakiness to it, but there's no damage on that.

Absolutely not! You have to remember with the original bend test, it's important to note the issues that people eventually had with the iPhone 6 were not that the device was cracking in their pocket, although that did happen to some people, but it was more that that small shift in the rigidity of the device changed the way in which the display the digitizer was receiving inputs. So you had something called touch disease that developed eventually, so that your inputs were busted and that's the thing that affected far more people than Apple had a court case about it and everything else. So anyway, here we go. It's the pro model, stainless steel, fully functional, and we'll give it the same go. Oh, I heard a little more there.

Oh baby, this one sounds worse. It's a little creakiness to it. Oh nah, no way nope, they did it. They got it man. This is a solid piece of engineering.

I have to say it when it's true, I have to say it and as much as I had expected to give the thin design, at least on the regular model, that I would just take these gloves and just blammo. No, that's not what happened at all. This is a major win for apple. It's a major win for people who want to have a thin phone that happens to be strong. Now there are other considerations, remember what I was saying about scratches, particularly on the screen, even with that ceramic shield, but those things are easy enough to mitigate.

You can just put a screen protector on there or a case, and that's why I keep suggesting later case. You could check it out in the description, but you're, probably okay, with a thin case, because at least when it comes to flexibility, if this thing's in your pocket, if you happen to sit on it, something like that, I don't imagine these are going to be easy to break so congrats to apple, and I guess congrats to you. If you pick one of these up, you have, you could be a little less apprehensive. This is a solid device. You.

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