New video shows purported gold 'iPhone 5S' shell in brutal scratch test

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  • Reply 21 of 47
    notscottnotscott Posts: 247member
    OMG shut up. He goes on forEVER before getting to it.
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  • Reply 22 of 47
    pazuzupazuzu Posts: 1,728member


    Obviously not 14 karats like I had hoped. for. Not even 12 karats.

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  • Reply 23 of 47
    haarhaar Posts: 563member
    i wonder if i take a coin to the paint job on a mercedes, BMW, Rolls-Royce amongst others, should i expect the paint job to withstand that treatment?... should I expect that if you "key" those cars the paint job will not be wrecked?...

    TL;DR... Video stupid, "stuff scratches"... but because Andriod was not test edit it is perfect... /sarcasm
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  • Reply 24 of 47
    pujones1pujones1 Posts: 222member
    Stupid. Maybe it should in a person's shirt pocket and then shoot that person with an M4 to test it as body armor.
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  • Reply 25 of 47
    quadra 610quadra 610 Posts: 6,759member


    Smartphones don't tend to react well to knives. 

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  • Reply 26 of 47
    gazoobeegazoobee Posts: 3,754member

    Quote:

    Originally Posted by pazuzu View Post


    Obviously not 14 karats like I had hoped. for. Not even 12 karats.



     


    A real, pure gold phone would be soft as butter and easily scratched all to hell by a simple house key or a coin. 

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  • Reply 27 of 47
    Marvinmarvin Posts: 15,585moderator
    sflocal wrote: »
    What remotely useful info is this? Is Apple somehow held to some higher standard in that they should have perfected invulnerable aluminum that is impervious to scratches with a hunting knife and dents within 175 feet of a nuclear explosion?

    Why is this even reported?

    Every audio/video professional is regularly in situations where their phones are stabbed with large hunting knives (it's dangerous out there in the real-world) and they need to hold up under that strain. Those people won't be upgrading from their scratch-proof iPhone 4s until this issue is resolved. The 55000+ employees at Apple have lost their way with this... only Steve understood. It should also be 6-core with 4GB of RAM minimum, have a larger screen (matte) and of course, widgets and be priced below cost.

    I may get one of these but sadly it means having to leave my cutlery at home. For years, I've carried a fork and knife beside my phone in my pocket with no problems. Now I must choose (or use the another pocket, which is not an easy option!). Why Apple, why? :\

    I'd say these tests have some value because they show what happens under seriously damaging conditions. It held up pretty well under the coin test. I'd say the take-away from it is that unless you undergo a life-threating schizophrenic knife assault wherein the damage sustained to the phone you have is one of your lesser concerns, your iPhone will probably survive everyday wear and tear quite well. It's info that is already fairly well known by now so it's worth about as much as I paid to read this article.
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  • Reply 28 of 47
    ireland wrote: »
    Gold iPhone 5S with silver Apple logo? Doesn't make sense. The real thing has to ship with a gold logo.

    The yellow dye they used didn't adhere to the Apple logo.
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  • Reply 29 of 47
    512ke512ke Posts: 782member
    I second and third that. iPhones are beautiful durable objects and I for one will keep buying them even if they can't survive an assault by a Navy SEAL.
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  • Reply 30 of 47
    notscott wrote: »
    OMG shut up. He goes on forEVER before getting to it.

    It's popular to create "abuse" videos to promote gadgets sites because they are sure to get hits.
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  • Reply 31 of 47
    512ke wrote: »
    What consumer product of ANY kind can resist this kind of abuse?

    Why isn't there an uproar because Porsche sunglasses and Rolex watches scratch if you STAB THEM WITH A HUNTING KNIFE?

    Lol what is the solution? Make every product out of DIAMONDS from now on?

    Or make a 12 pound Kevlar iPhone?

    That's some serious iAssault on that iPhone dude.

    The real problem is that the guy doesn't know what he's doing.

    The only real way to test the durability of champagne is with silicon implants, deep red lipstick, and a white laced thong.

    All while wearing the proper protection of course.
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  • Reply 32 of 47
    19831983 Posts: 1,225member
    Well there goes my theory that the new iPhone 5S might come as standard with scratch resistant titanium nitride and PVD/CLD coatings.
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  • Reply 33 of 47
    maestro64maestro64 Posts: 5,043member


    What a moron in the video. these people act like they have some sort of clue. First aluminum when it naturally oxidize form a layer over the surface called aluminum oxide, which is very hard and will protect the surface from everyday wear and tear so rubbing a quarter against should not scratch the aluminum, which you all saw in fact what you saw was the copper from the middle of the quarter rubbing off of on the aluminum oxide layer why, copper is very soft. The only way to scratch the aluminum is to actually use something harder like the harden knife and actually scratch through the Aluminum Oxide layer.


     


    The issue Apple had was that something in the Foxconn process was obviously scratch the case and must have been some sort of steel fixture they were using.

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  • Reply 34 of 47

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    Originally Posted by Ireland View Post



    Gold iPhone 5S with silver Apple logo? Doesn't make sense. The real thing has to ship with a gold logo.


     


    Have you ever seen an iPhone's logo? It's of a chromey material that changes color based on the reflection of the light in the room. It'll go from silver to black, depending on the angle.

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  • Reply 35 of 47
    "Do not scratch with pocket knife" will have to be added to all of Apple's warning docs to avoid lawsuits.
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  • Reply 36 of 47

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    Originally Posted by renatouno View Post

    .... reporting like a robot automaton.


     


    unnecessarily excessively and superfluously redundant.  ;)

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  • Reply 37 of 47


    I wanna see -----> New video shows a reporter from Jailbreak Nation (via CNET) smacking his head against the concrete wall in brutal test

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  • Reply 38 of 47
    jfc1138jfc1138 Posts: 3,090member
    I suspect this is all part of an OtterBox grand conspiracy.
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  • Reply 39 of 47
    jfc1138jfc1138 Posts: 3,090member

    Quote:

    Originally Posted by Gazoobee View Post


     


    A real, pure gold phone would be soft as butter and easily scratched all to hell by a simple house key or a coin. 



    Not to mention it would get bent all to heck within days....

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  • Reply 40 of 47
    tallest skiltallest skil Posts: 43,388member

    Originally Posted by jfc1138 View Post


    Not to mention it would get bent all to heck within days....


     


    There's your curved screen right there.

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