Comments on: iPhone 5 destroys Samsung Galaxy S3 in crash tests (with video)

By: KarlV

KarlV — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 20:07:27 +0000

Nah but KIA is crap. They really fail in crash tests.

By: KarlV

KarlV — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 20:05:55 +0000

Interesting.
How ever, the “around the house” test is much more interesting. The Galaxy still loses but in the first test the Galaxy hit the ground with the screen first. The iPhone 5 hit the ground on the side. That’s not a fair test. How ever. As we can see in the following test with the bottle, which fair, the Galaxy’s screen seems to break much more easily.

By: Sari

Sari — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 14:28:16 +0000

HOW do people manage to drop their phone into the toilet, just…HOW?? I realize (as a female) that guys tend to keep theirs in the pocket of their pants but still.

I really hope it was flushed before the drop…! The thought of using a phone that has been in the toilet is icky enough as it is. You’re lucky your wife isn’t as picky as I am, lol.

By: Scott in Japan

Scott in Japan — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 23:35:19 +0000

I can attest to the water test on iPhones. I had an iPhone 4 that fell into the toilet and was on its way to the sewage plant. It was rescued JUST before going out of reach. Quick use of canned air and dry packs in a ziplock bag and it is no worse for the wear. In fact, it continues to function flawlessly as my wife uses it after I upgraded to a 4s!

By: Rorschach

Rorschach — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 22:22:29 +0000

You are aware that on the iPhone 5 the metal back and the edge frame are machined from one piece of alloy? It’s not going to be stainless steel.

By: praus

praus — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 22:15:34 +0000

Landing on it’s edge as apposed to the face is a feature. It has to do with how the phone is weighted. The Samsung phone tends to land on it’s face, the iPhone tends to land on it’s edge.

By: Rick

Rick — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 22:10:37 +0000

As is Hyundai, parent of KIA. Their cars may look cool at first, but they rapidly reveal themselves to be the junk they are.

By: Shock Me

Shock Me — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 22:03:01 +0000

There is a reason the iPhone lands on the edge. It is heavier toward the bottom.

But I agree the bottle was a bit unfair to the Sammy because the bottom edge of the bottle struck the screen.

By: HDBoy

HDBoy — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 19:52:03 +0000

I wish Apple would offer a third model option: a black iPhone 5 with the stainless steel edge band (like on the whote model) instead of the black anodized edge band.

Scuffing problems solved!

By: Buster

Buster — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 18:01:11 +0000

I think your story is full of shit

By: Necron99

Necron99 — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 18:00:21 +0000

This coming from someone with a rainbow avatar?

By: qka

qka — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 17:59:00 +0000

Fragmandroid, indeed.

MDN, you’re going to have to go a long way to top that Take!

+∞!

By: DeRS

DeRS — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 16:53:29 +0000

Yes, the test is obviously biased both in fall test and bottle test.

There was more fair test and iPhone 5 won anyway by a far margin, so this test actually makes a disservice to Apple and its device.

By: dddd

dddd — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 16:32:45 +0000

iPhone is weighted to not drop on its face… samsung didn’t copy everything.

if your phone gets wet put it in a huge bag of rice and wait a couple hours…

By: GM

GM — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 16:18:30 +0000

They all break when dropped the right way. Flawed test. Useless article.

By: Tranz4m

Tranz4m — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 16:13:38 +0000

From experience I can tell you do not drop your iPhone 5 in the toilet – even for 2 seconds. Luckily none got in the headphone jack. After shaking it out it had some difficulty connecting to ATT. !0 minutes in the oven at 150 degrees fixed that issue. I followed that with a successful trip to the Apple store to buy Applecare.

By: mxnt41

mxnt41 — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 16:10:49 +0000

To be fair to Samsung, when they dropped the phone it landed right on its face, the iphone hit on the edge. Similarly, when the bottle hit it, the edge of the base and side hit the screen whilst on the iphone it was just the side of the bottle. The impacts applied are not remotely the same. I’ve no love for Samsung at all, but these are flawed.

By: Currentinterest

Currentinterest — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 16:05:50 +0000

Similar results were obtained from an Android test site.

By: rolf

rolf — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 16:02:39 +0000

tomL is right. tests are flawed. Beer bottle corner did not hit iPhone as on Sam cell etc.

but still, what do you expect from plastic crapware & a manufacturing process that is nothing close to Apple’s perfection, seamlessness, glue, quality materials, quality control etc.

you buy what you pay for.
be cheap, get cheap.

By: KenC

KenC — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 15:58:21 +0000

These are the people who insure smartphones. What pony do they have in the game? They’d like to depict, falsely, all devices failing so that people would insure them. Falsely, because they’d like to not have to pay any real claims.

So, if anything, they’d be biased into making both the SGS3 and the iP5 fail.

By: radtech5000

radtech5000 — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 15:58:05 +0000

Samsung should be ashamed of themselves, but since they obviously have no honor or respect and continue to blatantly copy every other company in existence nothing surprises me here. LoL

By: tomL

tomL — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 15:56:18 +0000

I do not doubt the Sammy is not nearly as robust as the iPhone, but the tests are seriously flawed.

In the drop test, the Sammy hit face down and the iPhone on the edge.

In the beer bottle drop test, the Sammy was hit in the screen by the bottpm of the bottle, while the iPhone was hit across the screen by the edge of the bottle.

By: Ballmer's left nut

Ballmer's left nut — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 15:54:57 +0000

Man, I’m surprised that plastic encrusted piece of turd didn’t split into a thousand pieces upon hitting the ground.

That Samsung phone looked like gay shit beside the iPhone.

By: bjr001

bjr001 — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 15:51:03 +0000

The story heading is a little misleading in using the word “crash” as one normally thinks of software crashes. Don’t forget that all important “I dropped my phone in toilet” test.

By: Lordthree

Lordthree — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 15:39:15 +0000

Samsung is a joke. So is Kia. South Korea needs to get their shit together – they should be embarrassed.

By: Jean Poole

Jean Poole — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 15:38:50 +0000

How about some ‘usage’ tests, by ordinary people, not by fanbois or druids.

By: twilightmoon

twilightmoon — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 15:33:34 +0000

They need to do about 1000 of these tests. Just make sure that the Samsung phones are covered under a warranty paid for by Samsung.