Take it from the guy who tried to fold the iPhone air from an Apple executive; See how far Apple will fold its own ultra-allé phone is a painful affair.
Hi, I am the technological journalist who has sought an iPhone thrown (or to) me by Greg Joswiak of Apple. I made it as much as I could and I only managed a small turn from which the phone quickly recovered. In truth, however, I had already seen the new iPhone 5.6 mm air from Apple and all its new iPhone 17 range would continue. So maybe I shouldn’t have been surprised.
Regarding reliability and sustainability tests, Apple does not spoil and is not afraid to push the limits. It makes it so that when you drop, kick, twist, fold, dip or pass through a haboob, your iPhone will come out unscathed.
Shortly after “ Awe Droping Event ‘Apple on September 9, in which the company unveiled four new iPhones, the Apple Watch Series 11, Apple Watch Ultra 3 and Airpods Pro 3, Apple took me behind closed doors to show how it tested the stress of the iPhone Air.
It is not surprising that Apple wants to demonstrate that it is more than ready to ask questions about a potentially foldable iPhone. The bendgate scars of the iPhone 6 are almost still visible (I am sure that mental injuries persist).
Apple iPhone Guantlet
While Apple traveled to me the unique decisions to build and design the iPhone Air, which include the practice of all the components under the camera tray. I am amazed by the tiny components (which I was not allowed to touch) arranged in front of me. A large part of the high -resistance titanium titanium body is only burying a lithium battery entirely in a special metal frame.
Apple showed me videos of a pulverized phone with high intensity water from all angles and explained how they also subjected it to sea water and even artificial sweat – Ick.
To test the strength of its new Ceramic Shield 2 screen, Apple friction with a special abrasive point; Not exactly car keys, but I understood.
Apple has a breathtaking special robot that tests the phone against the drops on the screen, the corners and the back. The objective is to simulate almost all angles of fall, and when the phone has failed a test, they would record it, make adjustments and repeat this exact fall scenario again and again.
The Big Bend test
Then Apple has tense me what looked like a small black brick. It was roughly the size of a smartphone. I was asked to apply as much folding pressure as possible while a screen measured the torque. I managed about 60 pounds. It was fun and good exercise.
Adjacent to the pressure measurement screen was what could only be described as an iPhone torture device. There was an iPhone air, balanced, hidden face on a support, and two similar supports were placed equidistant on the back. A technician turned on the machine, which continued to press the higher supports in the air of the iPhone.
I watched with horror the phone folded in the center, giving way to 133 pounds measured. I was riveted and repelled (this bad phone). The technician released the pressure and that the supports rounded up, the phone returned to a perfectly flat setting. To prove it, they removed the air from the iPhone from the machine, and he was lying perfectly flat on the table.
(The video above corresponds closely to what I saw in person and was supplied by Apple with this legend: “The air of the iPhone goes beyond the strict requirements of resistance to Apple turn and is in good condition after having undergone an extreme level of force.”)
As Apple told me, the air is more durable than any iPhone they have ever created, and now I am inclined to agree with them.
