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Did android authority fake a iPhone 6 drop test ?

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If you watch carefully and on 1080p from 3:40 onwards you can clearly see some glass shattering and the side of the display has come off. Once he picks the phone up the iPhone is complety fine.

Sorry there is no official news article but the comments also say the same thing.

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Yea, the entire bottom of the phone was broken!!

And then it's fine when he picks it up

 

The quality is really crappy on only the scene where you can see the damage..... (Sneaky, sneaky)

But the entire front has come off.

 

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Srsly Apple? Paying people to make fake drop tests...

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That breakdancing @2:05

 

lol if youre going to fake it, at least dont make it so obvious. 

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You'd think that ANDROID authority wouldn't want to iPhone to succeed... 

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I didn't see any glass shattering, i saw some dust/dirt and a piece of dried grass move.

 

Plus why would an Android site fake anything good for an Apple product?

 

 

It may have been the gravel. I don't see any shattering

I agree, it might not have been glass....but, look at the bottom of the phone--its peeling apart, yet when he picks it up its perfect. 

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I didn't see any glass shattering, i saw some dust/dirt and a piece of dried grass move.

 

Plus why would an Android site fake anything good for an Apple product?

Because they got paid...

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The question is not why did they say it was a good screen... the question is what the hell is an Android review site doing making a video of the iPhone 6...

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Ya.. that looks faked.

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Looks fake to me. This is not what a completely undamaged phone looks like. That's not a twig or dirt either. You can see the loose piece move around.

Sorry for the big images but I wanted to keep all of the quality.

 

 

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Drop tests are bullshit anyway. You might as well toss a coin to see if your phone would survive a fall. Their tests are 90% luck and 10% science.

So even if their test wasn't faked (which it to me it seems) it wouldn't have mattered. The only way to make a drop test matter is to make each phone fall precisely the same. You can do that with for example a machine that holds the phone in a specific position during the fall. Pretty sure Samsung showed one in some video. Use that to test phones, not random drops.

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Looks fake to me. This is not what a completely undamaged phone looks like. That's not a twig or dirt either. You can see the loose piece move around.

Sorry for the big images but I wanted to keep all of the quality.

 

 

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Drop tests are bullshit anyway. You might as well toss a coin to see if your phone would survive a fall. Their tests are 90% luck and 10% science.

So even if their test wasn't faked (which it to me it seems) it wouldn't have mattered. The only way to make a drop test matter is to make each phone fall precisely the same. You can do that with for example a machine that holds the phone in a specific position during the fall. Pretty sure Samsung showed one in some video. Use that to test phones, not random drops.

 

But people believe it, and then buy it.

That just makes me angry. For some reason.

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Droptest fails:

 

 

 

 

so the AA one was made out of military class steel or what?

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Droptest fails:

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGxlm82hWDM

 

 

so the AA one was made out of military class steel or what?

i was cringing as soon as the vid started, is he stupid? 

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Droptest fails:

 

 

 

 

so the AA one was made out of military class steel or what?

Well, that confirms that it's fake. I wonder if losing all credibility was worth whatever Apple paid him?

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i was cringing as soon as the vid started, is he stupid? 

 

who? the last video? Yeah, from my experience, boxes like this tend to be dangerous. So that it dropped didn't shock me. 

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I don't know about you guys but, when I drop my phone I scramble to recover and end up making the damn thing flip violently into the ground. My bad. Dust off, keep going. Phew.

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good point that was extremely fake.

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Here you go guys. I will share three photos with you.

The first two are the same photos I posted on Android Authority's site, which were shortly taken down.

The third photo is a screencap I took to share with a friend after sending him the link and him telling me the comment wasn't there anymore. Thankfully, I had not refreshed my page and was able to capture the shot of my comment on their article for their drop test.

If you notice - the phone doesn't line up the same way with the lines on the floor in the two photos.

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