Watch: Google Pixel 6 Pro is shockingly durable in new torture tests

Picket: Google Pixel 6 Pro is shockingly durable in new torture tests

(Prototype credit: Tom's Guide)

If you're concerned that the Pixel six Pro looks a bear on the fragile side, the YouTuber JerryRigEverything can officially set up your mind at ease.

After subjecting the phone to the worst torture a handset can go through, the Pixel half-dozen Pro has come up out relatively unscathed — or at least, in no worse shape than the majority of other phones on the market (and meliorate than the foldables.)

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In the six-minute video, the YouTuber subjects the Pixel half-dozen Pro to the usual scratching, bending and burning you've come to look. Using his assortment of increasingly aggressive tools, JerryRigEverything was able to scratch the glass display at level six on the Mohs hardness calibration, with deeper grooves and level seven. Pleasingly, the underscreen fingerprint reader continues to part, fifty-fifty subsequently that area of the screen has been aggressively scratched.

Further scratch tests on the case prove that Google has switched from the plastic veneer used on the Pixel v to metallic — except for a small plastic section at the top. Equally explained by 9to5Google, the regular Pixel vi doesn't have this, as it's at that place to arrange mmWave 5G, which is merely on the Pro model.

One expanse that fabricated us especially concerned was the curve test — and non but considering it's stressful watching someone trying to snap a $899 smartphone. The business was that the protruding camera bump would essentially separate the phone into two halves, making it easier to crack.

Those fears turned out to be unfounded, though, with the Pixel 6 Pro holding strong. "The Pixel 6 Pro doesn't seem very structurally affected by that large cross-panel photographic camera bump," concludes JerryRigEverything. "The build is solid with no cracks, bends or kinks."

There was one area where the Pixel 6 Pro failed, just if you always discover yourself in a situation where this is existence tested in person, yous've probably got bigger problems than a damaged phone. When he put a cigarette lighter to the Pixel 6 Pro'southward LPTO OLED brandish, the phone endured a permanent scar after about 15 seconds.

The screen still worked, however, and while some phones pass this exam with no cosmetic damage, JerryRigEverything did concede that this exam is "inconsequential" in the greater scheme of things.

In short, it sounds similar you can buy the Pixel 6 Pro with the conviction that you won't have to handle it with extreme caution. Simply you lot may still desire to invest in a Pixel half-dozen example, just to exist on the safe side.

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Freelance correspondent Alan has been writing about tech for over a decade, covering phones, drones and everything in between. Previously Deputy Editor of tech site Alphr, his words are institute all over the spider web and in the occasional magazine too. When not weighing up the pros and cons of the latest smartwatch, you lot'll probably find him tackling his ever-growing games backlog. Or, more likely, playing Spelunky for the millionth time.