Commentary: JerryRigEverything does what it can to make Apple’s new phone suffer. The gadget mostly does extremely well. But about that glass back…
A vital moment.
From creation to destruction there are but tiny steps.
But what of the iPhone X? Does it have flaws that will make it a sorry mess within days or weeks?
If you’ve seen one of these videos before, you’ll know that the nastiness has a gradation.
First, it’s scratches. Then it’s gouges with a scalpel. Finally comes burning and bending.
If your phone can survive all that, you might enjoy a lasting relationship.
In this case, the scratch test had the iPhone X on a par with other premium phones.
The stainless steel sides stood up well to gouging. The burning and bending tests were passed without the phone breaking a sweat — or, indeed, breaking anything.
This phone seems to be well made. « Incredibly solid » in the JerryRigger’s words.
But there was one central problem, which caused him to endure considerable conniptions.
« This may come as a surprise, » he said, « but glass is glass and very susceptible to damage. »
This is especially problematic with the glass back.
How long will it take before the world is populated by very expensive phones with Jackson Pollock crack-patterns on their backs?
No, but of course you’ll buy a case. And make it look entirely not like an iPhone X at all.
