There’s just something unsettling about seeing a top tier handset scratched with a box cutter, burned with a lighter, cracked, and ultimately snapped in half.
If anything is actually like watching a train wreck (which I’ve never done), it would be witnessing a premium smartphone undergo an unforgiving durability test, as is the case here with the OnePlus 10 Pro introduced last month at CES. There’s just something unsettling about seeing a top tier handset scratched with a box cutter, burned with a lighter, cracked, and ultimately snapped in half. And yet, my gaze never averted. These kinds of durability tests (or torture tests) take things to the extreme to see just how much abuse an electronic device can withstand. Most people aren’t likely to hold a flame to the display of their smartphone for 40 seconds, the time it took YouTuber JerryRigEverything to leave a permanent mark on the OnePlus 10 Pro’s screen with this lighter.
