Watch: Google Pixel 6 Pro is shockingly durable in new torture tests

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Lookout man: Google Pixel vi Pro is shockingly durable in new torture tests

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If y'all're concerned that the Pixel half dozen Pro looks a affect the fragile side, the YouTuber JerryRigEverything can officially set your mind at ease.

Later subjecting the telephone to the worst torture a handset tin go through, the Pixel 6 Pro has come out relatively unscathed — or at least, in no worse shape than the majority of other phones on the market (and better than the foldables.)

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In the 6-minute video, the YouTuber subjects the Pixel 6 Pro to the usual scratching, angle and burning you've come to expect. Using his array of increasingly aggressive tools, JerryRigEverything was able to scratch the glass brandish at level six on the Mohs hardness calibration, with deeper grooves and level seven. Pleasingly, the underscreen fingerprint reader continues to function, fifty-fifty after that area of the screen has been aggressively scratched.

Further scratch tests on the case prove that Google has switched from the plastic veneer used on the Pixel 5 to metal — except for a small plastic section at the top. Equally explained past 9to5Google, the regular Pixel 6 doesn't have this, as it's there to adjust mmWave 5G, which is only on the Pro model.

I area that made us specially concerned was the bend test — and non just because information technology's stressful watching someone trying to snap a $899 smartphone. The concern was that the protruding camera bump would substantially separate the phone into 2 halves, making it easier to scissure.

Those fears turned out to be unfounded, though, with the Pixel 6 Pro property strong. "The Pixel half dozen Pro doesn't seem very structurally affected by that large cross-panel photographic camera bump," concludes JerryRigEverything. "The build is solid with no cracks, bends or kinks."

There was ane area where the Pixel 6 Pro failed, but if you lot e'er find yourself in a situation where this is existence tested in person, you've probably got bigger problems than a damaged telephone. When he put a cigarette lighter to the Pixel 6 Pro'south LPTO OLED display, the phone endured a permanent scar subsequently virtually xv seconds.

The screen still worked, all the same, and while some phones pass this examination with no cosmetic damage, JerryRigEverything did concede that this examination is "inconsequential" in the greater scheme of things.

In short, it sounds like you can buy the Pixel half dozen Pro with the conviction that you won't have to handle it with extreme caution. Merely yous may still want to invest in a Pixel 6 instance, just to be on the safe side.

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Freelance correspondent Alan has been writing about tech for over a decade, covering phones, drones and everything in between. Previously Deputy Editor of tech site Alphr, his words are found all over the spider web and in the occasional mag too. When not weighing upward the pros and cons of the latest smartwatch, yous'll probably find him tackling his ever-growing games backlog. Or, more likely, playing Spelunky for the millionth time.

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