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Apple recently launched the iPhone 17 series smartphones alongside the iPhone Air – its slimmest phone ever. During the launch event, the Cupertino-based tech giant also claimed that the iPhone Air is its most durable smartphone to date.
Since then, many iPhone users and smartphone enthusiasts have been waiting for YouTuber JerryRigEverything’s hands-on test to see if it survives the bend test. To give you a quick recap, the iPhone Air is just 5.6mm thin and has a 6.5-inch OLED screen protected by Corning’s Ceramic Shield 2, which it says is three times more scratch-resistant than its predecessor.
Coming back to the durability test, the popular YouTuber puts a lighter to the iPhone Air’s screen for a few seconds, and it surprisingly does no damage to the display panel. He goes on to scratch the buttons, the camera island, the new front Center Stage camera, and as one would expect, the titanium frame does get damaged.
JerryRigEverything also tries to bend the iPhone Air and see if it is vulnerable to bendgate, which refers to a scandal in 2014 where the iPhone 6 and the iPhone 6 Plus were reported to bend or warp under normal use when kept in the pocket.
Like the iPhone 6, the iPhone Air did bend a bit when under stress, but it did not break, even after JerryRigEverything tried his best to break it. Following this, he put the phone on a machine that simulated 130 pounds of pressure on the middle of the phone, which is the most common place where a phone will bend.
Surprisingly, the iPhone Air springs back and loses the curve it had when under pressure. As it turns out, this might actually be the most durable iPhone to date. To give you a quick recap, the iPhone Air is powered by the A19 Pro chipset and comes with a 6.5-inch Super Retina OLED screen. To keep it slim, Apple had to pack in a single 48MP camera shooter and make the battery capacity smaller.
