One of the biggest causes of a broken smartphone is undue pressure on the screen. This pressure can come from a small thing such as pressure from being in your pocket forcing a cracked LCD to a big thing such as dropping a box on it.
[caption id="attachment_120273" align="alignnone" width="574"] Before the Stress Test Began[/caption]
Breaking your smartphone and having to go through a costly repair is everyone's worst nightmare but how much pressure can your smartphone actually endure? Can it survive being hit with a hammer? What about dropping on concrete or falling beneath the wheels of a moving car?
Armed with the Lumia 530, we thought we would test this and our big Lumia 530 Stress Test begins with the hammer and drop on concrete tests. Let's see how the Lumia 530 did:
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsKxMQd__-Y
Recapping the video, it's clear that the Lumia 530 doesn't like our friendly hammer. The flat edge of the Hammer broke the internal LCD very quickly but the Claw did the real damage, destroying the outer display and leaving lots of fine pieces of plastic on the table.
Let's take a look at the Lumia 530 after it a bout with the hammer:
Image: After Hammer Test
What about the Drop test on concrete? ...
One of the biggest causes of a broken smartphone is undue pressure on the screen. This pressure can come from a small thing such as pressure from being in your pocket forcing a cracked LCD to a big thing such as dropping a box on it.
[caption id="attachment_120273" align="alignnone" width="574"] Before the Stress Test Began[/caption]
Breaking your smartphone and having to go through a costly repair is everyone's worst nightmare but how much pressure can your smartphone actually endure? Can it survive being hit with a hammer? What about dropping on concrete or falling beneath the wheels of a moving car?
Armed with the Lumia 530, we thought we would test this and our big Lumia 530 Stress Test begins with the hammer and drop on concrete tests. Let's see how the Lumia 530 did:
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsKxMQd__-Y
Recapping the video, it's clear that the Lumia 530 doesn't like our friendly hammer. The flat edge of the Hammer broke the internal LCD very quickly but the Claw did the real damage, destroying the outer display and leaving lots of fine pieces of plastic on the table.
Let's take a look at the Lumia 530 after it a bout with the hammer:
Image: After Hammer Test
What about the Drop test on concrete? ...