Check out the first and only scratch test on PhoneArena!
First of all, let me start this with a disclaimer. I’m not here to try to sway you into buying the Honor Magic 6 RSR. It is a wonderful piece of hardware, for sure, but its price tag is way above what most people would be comfortable with when buying a new phone.
With that being said, I want to talk about one feature that I think could be a game changer for the smartphone industry. It’s the silicon nitride (Si3N4) material used on the RSR’s front and back. I’ve lived through (or, should I say, scratched through) many claims of unscratchable smartphone surfaces, and only ceramic left a mark (even though there were no marks on the ceramic). With that silly little pun, let’s run some tests (spoiler, it’s JerryRigEverything, but in the real world).
The tests
Phone and sandpaper, just a regular day at work
First of all, I’m not Zack from JerryRigEverything, so no Mo’s scale hardness tests, sadly (we should start doing those; shout out in the comment section if you want more stress tests in the future). I decided to take a more empirical and real-life approach.
I use all of my smartphones without a cover or a case (to me, it’s a failed design if you need to hide it under a plastic-rubber contraption), and most of the time they get scratched when left on my kitchen top, dropped on the sidewalk, or when I apply sandpaper to them (okay, the last one is a joke, obviously, but Honor mentioned it as a potential test in the review guide, so why the hell not?).
The results
Sliding the phone on my kitchen top, which is made of granite (a hard and almost indestructible stone, at least when pitted against glass, that is), left absolutely no marks on the back. I’ve done this before during the review phase of the phone, but now I have it on video.
