“What happens if you try to bend the Google-Huawei Nexus 6P smartphone? Well, quite simply, it breaks apart with a sickening crack,” Lorenzo Ligato reports for The Huffington Post.
“On Tuesday, Zack Nelson from YouTube’s JerryRigEverything posted video of a fresh-from-the-box Nexus 6P undergoing a durability test,” Ligato reports. “Both sides of the phone are pulled downward while upward pressure is applied to the middle, forcing the device into a V shape before it snaps in half.”
Ligato reports, “According to Nelson, the device suffers from several ‘fatal structural flaws’ that make it especially vulnerable to bending, and he explains these in depth in the video.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: If that’s the flagship, imagine the rest of the crap Android has to offer. Stagefright and other malware that’ll never get patched, anyone?
Let’s compare “flagships” right here:
Advice to the frgamandroid settlers: Get a real iPhone.
JerryRigEverything’s original video:
SEE ALSO:
Video: Google’s Nexus 6P bends easier than iPhone 6 Plus, scratches like an iPhone 5 – October 30, 2015
New iPhone 6s bend test reveals super-strong aluminum shell – August 19, 2015
New Apple patents show continuing work on Liquidmetal – August 11, 2015
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Edward W.” for the heads up.]
So where is the ‘Consumer Reports’ test on this phone?! What about NY Times investigation on the break ability of Android phones?! Where are all the pundits calling for Doom for Android based on the ease with which this phone was broken?! 🖖😀⌚️
Yeah, I’m waiting for those guys who cried WOLF about the iPhone 6 BS bend issue to chime in here. We’re all waiting…hello…hello??? We need that report on this.
NEXUSGATE!
Big deal!
Shocking. We, however, will not hold our breath waiting for any blame-gate blaze of negative publicity, gasps of moral outrage, sneering blogs, or condemnatory op-eds. ‘Cause it’s not, y’know, Apple.
Love it. What comes around, goes around.
Not that I would buy a Nexus 6P, as it has no SD Card Slot, but….
128GB Nexus 6P $649
128 GB iPhone 6S $949
16 GB! iPhone 6S $749!
The 6S better not only be stronger, it should be better speced.
I do believe you need to check your facts,
The Apple Store lists the 16Gb iPhone 6s at $649 and the 128Gb iPhone 6s at $849. But, I guess facts don’t seem to matter in the anti-apple world?
First off. Thank you for pointing out my mis-transciption. Yes, of course I was referring to the “6S Plus”, which is the comparably sized model to the Nexus 6P. Both are the more expensive model in their lineup. So thanks for having me “clarify my facts”.
Secondly, it only shows that you don’t need to be anti-Apple to make a typo, that’s a bonus. In this context of course, anti-Apple means wanting Apple to offer an even better valued device to Apple customers. But is it what’s best for the team? /s
But you obviously knew that already…
That is pretty cool – no special equipment, he just grabs it and it bends without any noticeable effort – wooden pencils are stronger than that thing
Sure. But, seriously. What a jerk. So are all those teens with phones- any phones- in their back pockets. Not.. too.. bright…
I’ve always kep phones in my back pocket. Never bent one, ever. I did dent an HTC One M8 though, and this one does look like it wouldn’t survive.
What, no spell check on your Android phone?
Bigger issue is not being able to edit.
Waiting for the scandal. Waiting. Waiting. (crickets chirping)
It’s a $649 scandal as opposed to a $949 scandal. The bigger scandal gets priority. 🙂
That thing is so weak a fart would break it. 😜
Here is another test. This time they just left the device on a counter:
The Nexus phone is A Google branded product.
Now think of about all the geniuses that say the Google CAR will be the next big thing.
will you drive one…. ?
Of course not, I don’t want Google knowing where I go (more than they do already) any more than I want Apple telling me where I’m allowed to go.
And the Google car remains merely a clunky R&D thingy, with its goofy spinning visual sensor on top. From my POV, the whole thing is for publicity. If they actually make advances in self-driving technology, that’s great. But what they’re driving around doesn’t even qualify as a decent prototype. It’s just an R&D gadget they’ve stuck together. If they tried to sell that thing as it is, it would receive major laughter from the professional auto market.
Seen it. But of course, it’s not an Apple product, so no need to go all BaLLiStiC and PaNiCeD about it.
Kiddies: Pull your money out of GOOG before the next tech crash. . . . You’re welcome.
Guy didn’t even break a sweat.