Yup! The past stainless steel sides and more squared helped better protect I feel. How is Victus 2 in comparison maybe Apple should go back to gorilla glass? I know Ceramic Shield is made by Corning but 🤔
I wouldnt say worse, these tests aren't really equal lol. If there was a small sand grain or a small rock piece it would only affect one phone and I think that's what happened to the 16pm
It would be hilarious if you went back to the apple store immediately to get it repaired. Let them wonder how you managed to wreck the phone in less than a day.
This is true. They use desert sand instead of soapstone, and the curing process they use is different as well because of the different lime process instead of calcium aluminate. This is an unfair test for Americans.
Sam pays $2,000 to go to Australia for return flights and stay for 3 days. Sam Buys an iPhone 16 Pro Max and 15 Pro Max probably around $2,000 for both together. In total about $4,000 Spend to make this video! Sam gets paid ad revenue $700-$1300 total for this video and about $1500 from ESR... Sam EQUALS Silly Bad Sam you have lost money and you are NOT an EverythingApplePro replacement and NEVER will be!
Don’t think this comment was necessary. He’s not doing it just for the money or clout, he’s trying to find out important facts about the phones. These facts will help us as the consumers when making purchasing decisions. Also, for the last sentence - why tf was that necessary? Of course Sam isn’t an EverythingApplePro replacement, just like EverythingApplePro isn’t an Appletrack replacement. I really hope you were joking.
There’s kinda no point of doing this kind of video. If you compare drops they’ve got to be identical. If not then you’re comparing different things. Idk , I think it’s stupid doing it this way.
@@rascallygoose4926 yes that's what he is saying.. Lay the phones on a hard surface and drop the same object, something round, and drop it on screens at different hights.
@@rascallygoose4926you are so wrong, machines can cut out aluminum to accuracy of 1/100 000 inch if necessary, do you really thing there will be any visible difference between machine drop?
In their labs, they have dedicated drop test machines that drop the phones at many specific angles and measure results. It’s like this…if Sam dropped the phone 2000 times the exact same way
@@MikeHenderson-tm1hsexcept back glass I see so many with back glass shattered my wife’s recently cracked while in a case fell off lap getting out of car 🤷♂️
Sam, I think you need to do another durability test, but this time a little differently. Get a 15 Pro/Max and a 16 Pro/Max, take a pebble, and drop it onto each of the phones’ screens respectively, from various heights. This will eliminate the variables of the angle of drop, edge impact, etc., and prove the differences in the actual screen durability.
It looks like the concrete is textured and uneven. This creates a lot of variability in your experiment. I'd suggest doing this on a uniform surface IF the objective is to test the two phones head-to-head. But otherwise, thank you for putting this out!
@@baobobaand whether your phone survives a drop into that uneven surface is often very random, and down to exactly how the impact occurs. There is no scientific method here and literally nothing can be said about relative durability by testing one sample in highly randomized drops.
@@JStryker7 I've dropped my iPhone from the four-storey building I work at when someone unexpectedly cut me off and bumped into me while I was passing by the building's balcony post. She payed for it, tho. Anyways, accidents happen.
Cheers in Australia! Watching on my newly setup iPhone 16 Pro Max. So happy the case shipped in today. Quickly installed the screen protector and a Casetify Ultra Bounce case. This phone is huge
sam is up there with techrax and eap in terms of how his brain works and how it feels watching his content as a viewer. this annual trip to the upside down is definitely something i want him to be able to do every year. i love sam
I have to give you an “A” for effort for making this video, flying to Australia just to be first on drop test is a dedication to your audience.👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Absolutely love the drop test videos from last year and this year… I get that you did it because of the upgraded ceramic shield claim, but these videos would be awesome as a yearly tradition, you might be onto something here with them!! Just a supporter man, love your channel
These tests generally aren’t very scientific. It takes just the right drop angle to shatter just about any phone. Also slight variations in the stability of the manufacturing process. It’s a game of chance where those variables out weight any improvement made to the device. If you performed this test 100 times from scratch, I would imagine you’d see overall a different result. I would say the fact they both survived three drops on concrete is impressive. 7 feet up to concrete is no joke! I’ve seen more scientific tests using a pressure device that measures the pressure before breaking point in the exact same spot. You might want to invest in one of those machines.
0:50 No, you're wrong here. They said 50% tougher than the first gen CS, and the first gen CS was on the iPhone 12, so it's actually not that big of an increase there
Is that why you bought so many of them, so you can destroy them. BECAUSE I LOVE IT. I mean it's hard to watch, but that's pretty cool, mine's arriving on September 23rd, three days late, but that's OK, I've waited this long. Glad to see you're having fun taking them apart and now drop testing them lol. I love your style, keeps me coming back for more. Keep it up bro!
There are some hard pieces embedded in those concrete plates, I've already seen drop tests of 16ProMax with very different results: some youtubers have to drop it from like 3 meters to get it dented, some break it to unusable state from 1,5 meters. Oh, and the screen glass, though more crack-resistant - is more prone to scratches than 12Pro's screen, so take care.
Mrwhosetheboss explained that the new Ceramic Shield aims to do what it did with the cracks, minimising cracks expanding across the glass. Not so much impact resistance.
Lemme just say this takes guts, and I appreciate it, Sam. Takes guts to put yourself out there like this for a second year in a row, knowing there will be tons of comments (many of them negative) about it, yet you’re still putting your own time and resources towards this to find out about Apple’s claims and help us, the consumers, make a little bit more informed decision about our purchasing. Kudos, man. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
This is what I was expecting. I am more interested in durability tests and bend tests than for the phones by themselves. I have such a good time watching iPhones being destroyed and smashed to the ground 😂
This was interesting but the phones are different weights. To make the test more scientifically viable the drop heights might need to account for weight differences. The 16 pro is heavier and physics still applies. So, I'm even more impressed with the 16 pro.
Ceramic glass is glass combine with materials that makes it harder to break or scratch but it’s still has glass in it so won’t shatter into millions of pieces but it will crack
Definitely a very interesting video for sure Sam!- was not expecting the 16s Ceramic Shield to actually make much of a difference but that is pretty impressive!- Love your videos Sam-Keep it up!
the 14 pro's were built like a brick house, I haven't had a case on mine for 2 years and its a damn TANK I fear when I upgrade I wont be as confident 😬
This proves you need a case and a screen protector unless you have good insurance and don’t mind paying for every incident. As hard as I have dropped phones every couple months unintentionally, screen protector and case has kept my phones in perfect condition for the past ten years.
Great video! Just a quick thought, I don’t actually think the screen broke, I think the connector just got loose, which, yes, shouldn’t have happened, but it’s better then having a screen just flat-out break
Can we get a review of the camera control with the different ESR cases? I actually always use ESR products and super curious as to how these perform against something like the apple case’s built in button.
Yep, I used to be a Field Technician ( now Management ) for heavy diesel equipment, and consider myself a bit of a savage. Always have had iPhones for work since they came out, NEVER broke one. Whereas people with office jobs, teens or housewives tend to break them all the time, it's all in how you treat your possessions. Treat your car or anything else carelessly and you'll get the same result.
Last year, 14 pro did "remarkably well" and 15 pro shattered and got out of the game. This year, 15 pro did remarkably well and 16 Pro Display stopped working in just 4 drops. We should buy a generation older everytime a new iPhone is launched. Although, I'm currently on 15 pro and I think it's the best in terms of sturdiness. Except for the battery backup. Everything's fine. I hope 16 pro would have a good battery backup.
My 13 pro fell off my roof onto concrete with no case on it. It’s go a few scuffs but the glass is fine and everything still works. Idk if I’ll ever upgrade.
