Crash test: iPhone 5 vs Samsung Galaxy S3
US company SquareTrade, which sells warranties on consumer electronics, has conducted one of its trademark head-to-head damage tests on the new iPhone 5 vs the Samsung Galaxy S3.
SquareTrade sells extended warranties for both Apple and Samsung products, among other brands.
Amid dropping, dunking and having household objects fall on them, the iPhone 5 comes out on top.
"Samsung may have been found guilty of patent infringement when it comes to smartphone design, but the Korean electronics company hasn’t copied Apple in terms of durability," quipped the Wall Street Journal's All Things D blog about the tests.
NBR ONLINE can't help noticing that happenstance saw the bottom edge of the beer bottle slam into the S3, while the iPhone 5 had a flat impact. But never mind. An entertaining clip:
See SquareTrade's earlier iPhone 4S vs Galaxy S3 test here:
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heh, kinda bias there. iphone wanst dropped face down at the beginning test nor did beer bottle land on its screen with bottom edge as it did on gs3 :D
Does not matter. There are many other similar comparison videos out there and every one of them showed the iPhone winning.
If you're going to try and pass off "everyday" tests as scientific, you might want to have some standardization.
Stop ur crying. Iphone #1
I might agree with you except that my friends Galaxy S3 fell from only 2 ft and caused a cracked screen the first day she got it.
I has a Galaxy S3 for three whole weeks before it got dropped inside the house and was wrecked. It landed on the top corner and damaged the internal parts so bad it was uneconomic to fix. It had a back cover and screen protector on it but these do not protect it in any way from being wrecked if dropped. Needless to say I will not be buying Samsung again!
Dropped my new unprotected S3 on marble from chest height - no damage, thankfully.
Smart u don't need that plastic peace of cr*p Iphone #1
From all these tests I can see that the iPhone 5 will most definitely be excellent at it's primary role of being a doorstop.
Just dropped my GS3 from about 6.5 feet. It is still perfectly fine. My friend Iphone 5 fell off his coffee table which is under 3 feet and his screen is shattered.
I just dropped my Nokia Lumia 920 from a simulated height of 100 feet and it was fine.
What is a simulated height?
Hahaha Nokia u know u lying. Lol Nokia. Iphone #1
#7 everyone knows Nokia phones are indestructible. It is the only thing that can withstand the hulks rage!
Not a fair comparison. Drop both ON THE SCREEN! (not just the first one - whatever it was - I don't have either!)
Did they land at exactly the same angle or on the same part of the phone? Answer is NO. Test Null and Void!
i agree , equality is a necessity in damage comparisons with both the iphone 5 and gs3. the under water test warrants the iphone 5 as superior in this category, nice job guys,although im a nooby in a sense of itunes and find it frustrating so ill stick to simplicity c/w the larger display! gs3 wins here.
Okay, second video. Did anybody realise how in the second test the iPhone was thrown way higher than the GS3?
Anyway, anyway girlfriend, my friend and I just dropped our phones from an aircraft travelling at mach 1 at 20,000 ft as we were leaning out the window. My iPhone's still working although I lost a few contacts, and my friend's Galaxy's camera took awesome pics as it crashed-landed into a Somalian village.
These test are stupid.
I know lots of people with iPhone's that have cracked screens. Haven't seen any galaxy 3 with that problem
not exactly scientific tests are they?
The sg3 has a screen a fair bit bigger the the iphone physics being what they are, if the bigger screen is the same thickness as the smaller one, it will Be weaker.
Now for the exception to the rule. I dropped my galaxy note twice from full height in an asphalt car park by accident. (Just got it and found the metal bezel slippery.) And in one case it slid 4 or 5 feet face down along the carpark. I expected the worst so you can imagine my surprise when it had hardly a scratch on the edges and none at all on the screen. I was shocked.
I'd also add that its a very good thing apple got better because the 4 and 4 s with edge to edge glass front and back were terrible.
But does it blend?
If you want durable, get the Nokia Lumia 800. I've dropped mine SO many times and it just keeps on going... Great if you're clumsy and need a robust phone, not so good if you're hoping for an 'accident' so you have an excuse to upgrade to something else... Like an S3 with nice big screen...
I dropped my phone while out for a walk .... and couldn't find it.