Welcome to the Jerryrigeverything durability circus! In this ring, we have the Honor 5x from Huawei! Step right up to see how the screen holds up to scratches dealt by special picks made to assess the hardness of the phone’s screen according to Moh’s scale of hardness. Lean in closer to watch this baby burn. Hold your breath as we bend this economical phone to it’s farthest limits. Do you want more than words? Watch the video
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Before we begin, as always, please remember that there is more than durability to take into account when making a smartphone purchase. Also, even if my own smartphones pass these tests, I always keep them in cases and cover screens with screen protectors for safe keeping.
This episode’s performer is a Sunset Gold Honor 5x whose color is very similar to the gold option for the Nexus 6p. Another fun fact: the Nexus 6p and the Honor 5x have nearly the same sized screen. Side power and volume buttons on the Honor 5x are textured.
The test begins with the removing of the screen protector that the Honor 5x comes with so that the actual screen can be scratched by the picks mentioned before. Moh’s Scale of Hardness goes from one to ten with one, the softest material being equivalent to Talc powder and ten, the hardest, being as hard as a diamond. The Honor 5x has not been said by Huawei to contain Gorilla Glass, but it still scores the same as this brand on the scratch test. The Honor 5x is scratched by a level 6 pick with a 7 leaving a deeper groove in the screen. This means one of two things; either the Honor 5x does have a Gorilla Glass screen or generic brand tempered glass is just as strong as Gorilla Glass, with reference to hardness and scratching. Unlike the plastic lens on the Blackberry PRIV and Sony’s Xperia Z5, the Honor 5x has a glass camera lens and the lens is also scratch resistant. The back of the Honor 5x, being made of aircraft grade aluminum, is scratched by a razor blade and car keys. The very top and bottom sections of this phone are plastic.
Now, we burn. The Honor 5x has an IPS LCD display and, like most other phones, these pixels turn black and turn off when they are exposed to extreme heat, but when the heat is gone the pixels go back to normal like nothing ever happened. The screen is cool enough to touch within seconds. A textbook LCD heat recovery.
Finally, it is bending time. Not much was expected from this Huawei budget phone, but it surprised me.The first bend flexes the phone a great deal, but it locks out and doesn’t break as did the Nexus 6p. Everything is mostly okay, until I bend it the opposite way. A thin piece of the metal body near the power button bends in, turning off the phone. Everything bends easily back into place and the phone gets my seal of approval: the Honor 5x has also passed the bend test.
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