Apple Watch drop test: smartwatch will smash if you throw it face down at the floor
Test follows on from finding out how an iPhone 6 deals with being thrown in boiling Coca-Cola
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Your support makes all the difference.The Apple Watch Sport will smash if you repeatedly throw it at the ground in an attempt to break it, a man has found in spectacular fashion.
TechRax, a YouTube account that subjects new technology to often extreme testing, smashed up the Apple Watch to see how much it could stand.
The video shows a man repeatedly throwing the Apple Watch Sport at the floor, in an attempt to test out the strength of its Ion-X glass screen. Unlike the more expensive Apple Watch and Apple Watch Edition — which have stronger sapphire screens — the Sport’s screen is made of a toughened glass.
In the video, the tester tries out situations that he claims could happen in real life, such as a slip while putting the watch on that could mean it drops to the floor. “The bands are kind of slippery, and the Watch slips — what happens?” the man in the video asks.
It survives that drop, falling onto its back and flopping back over. It seems to be protected by the rubbery fluoroelastomer sports band.
But when the testers drop the Watch straight onto its face, the glass breaks around its edges.
“Are you serious, Apple?” he asks. “That was not even that bad.”
The man then proceeds to repeatedly throw the Watch at the floor until it breaks apart and the insides come out. “They call this durability?” he asks.
TechRax has a history of subjecting Apple devices to torture, releasing a video in December where he boiled an iPhone 6 in Coca-Cola. That video found, perhaps unsurprisingly, that iPhones can’t survive being dunked in a pan of boiling Coca-Cola.
Other videos have seen the team putting the iPhone 6 into a lava lamp, baking it inside a turkey and ironing it. And the destruction isn’t limited only to the iPhone, with the Samsung Galaxy S5 also being set on fire.
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