Like any reader of Actualidad iPhone should know, today the 7 iPhone. With the first units already in the hands of the first lucky ones, from today we will start to see all kinds of resistance tests of the new Apple smartphone and one of the first to appear on the net is the one in which they try scratch the screen with tools of different hardness.
It has been the channel of JerryRigEverything who has gone to work to mistreat his newly acquired iPhone and see how far he is capable of holding. The first thing he has done is the scratch test: the iPhone 7 screen starts scratching at level 6, which is just the level of resistance that a phone of its class has in this regard. In comparison, the Galaxy Note 7, the first to use Gorilla Glass 5, scratches at level 3.
The iPhone 7 also beats the Bendgate
It seems important to mention what they say in the video, that the keys and coins will not scratch the screen of the iPhone 7, but that in the pockets there are usually all kinds of minerals that are the ones that end up annoying the screen, so it will be worth using any type of protective case if we are going to carry it in our pockets for a long time and we want it to it is perfect.
Things already change on the back of the iPhone 7. The aluminum will be scratched much sooner, but it is on the same level as the iPhone 6s. They also test the Touch ID and the camera, both with sapphire crystal and which are highly resistant, and the flash and the metal earpiece grill, both components with low resistance but which will not be in so much danger because they are not at the same height than the case / glass.
In video we can also see a couple more tests: on the one hand, the screen is burned with a lighter and it seems that it returns to its original state once cleaned. Then he also does a test to rule out the Bendgate, but this problem has already been fixed on the iPhone 6s and the iPhone 7 does not bend easily. It does look like the screen peels off a bit when a lot of force is applied, but it snaps back when you release it.
From what it seems, the iPhone 7 is not that it is more resistant than the 6s, but it is not less so and, if there was no resistance problem last year, it seems that there will not be this year.
In the video it says that neither the Home nor the camera uses sapphire glass, which is scratched at level 9. Both are scratched at level 6, which suggests that they use the same glass as the screen.