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Aquarious
Is this really a piece of worthy news???
mike_m
Fully loaded the APX7000 series radio is around $7000 dollars and it's ...
Video: Samsung stresses its smartphones
Sylvie Barak
11/27/2012 3:09 AM EST
Samsung is out to show the world how tough it is, or at least, how tough its smartphones are, with a newly released video showing the various (and rather rigorous looking) stress tests it puts its devices through.
The video, which cropped up on YouTube this week, is entirely in Korean, so I’m not going to attempt to translate it, but the imagery is rather self-explanatory.
“Do you know how strong your smartphone is?” reads the YouTube description. “Samsung is conducting various kinds of stress tests for its smartphones to make not only smarter but also stronger smartphones.”
And to prove its point, follow three rather stressful minutes where we see the phones being put through their paces, from being sat on by a fake buttocks, to being churned around with foamy pellets in a make-believe washing machine, incessant and rather forceful button pushing, being drizzled on, being high power hosed and finally, as if that wasn’t enough, being dropped.
Samsung failed to mention how many Galaxy Notes were injured in the making of this video.
That said, the phones did seem to hold up rather well, which will come as a bit of good news to Galaxy owners, though whether the testing really does bear out in the real world seems hit or miss.
“So much testing and mine cracked after first drop,” responded one YouTube viewer.
Oh well, you can’t win ‘em all.
Check out the video:
The video, which cropped up on YouTube this week, is entirely in Korean, so I’m not going to attempt to translate it, but the imagery is rather self-explanatory.
“Do you know how strong your smartphone is?” reads the YouTube description. “Samsung is conducting various kinds of stress tests for its smartphones to make not only smarter but also stronger smartphones.”
And to prove its point, follow three rather stressful minutes where we see the phones being put through their paces, from being sat on by a fake buttocks, to being churned around with foamy pellets in a make-believe washing machine, incessant and rather forceful button pushing, being drizzled on, being high power hosed and finally, as if that wasn’t enough, being dropped.
Samsung failed to mention how many Galaxy Notes were injured in the making of this video.
That said, the phones did seem to hold up rather well, which will come as a bit of good news to Galaxy owners, though whether the testing really does bear out in the real world seems hit or miss.
“So much testing and mine cracked after first drop,” responded one YouTube viewer.
Oh well, you can’t win ‘em all.
Check out the video:
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mike_m
11/27/2012 12:43 PM EST
Come on samsung you can do better than this.
Now this is abuse. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=2K4n99TE_Ts&NR=1
and this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31DfaaIRYK8
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SylvieBarak
11/27/2012 10:07 PM EST
Indeed, Mike, both of those videos show some serious ruggedness from Motorola.... but it's way easier to make a rugged radio walkie talkie than it is a slim and delicate smartphone! I don't see too many people walking around with radios, unless they're on a construction site!
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skal_jp
11/27/2012 6:23 PM EST
If someone can understand Korean, could you let us now which of those test are done during development and which are done for product final test?
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mike_m
11/28/2012 12:02 PM EST
Fully loaded the APX7000 series radio is around $7000 dollars and it's Motorola's highest tier public safety Handheld radio so maybe I need to give Samsung some slack.
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Aquarious
11/30/2012 6:28 PM EST
Is this really a piece of worthy news???
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