Name: スマートフォンデュラビリティーアワード2017! (Smartphone DURABILITY Awards 2017!)
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2017 just ended, and it's time to recap all of the phones that were released last year

and pick the most durable and the most repairable.

I don't have any awards to hand out like MKBHD did.

He made a fantastic video about the 2017 smartphone awards.

I'll link his video down in the description.

My video is going to focus on durability and repair-ability.

Let's start  with the most repairable smartphone of 2017.

While the vast majority of smartphone manufacturers are gluing their phones shut, which makes

it pretty hard to repair, with the right YouTube video to follow, pretty much anything is possible.

I would say that the most repairable smartphone screen-wise for 2017, has to be the Google

Because when you're replacing the screen of this phone, A) it's the first thing that comes

there's a metal plate underneath the screen, making the repair pretty fool-proof.

You can't damage any of the fragile electronic components underneath the screen as you're

Now, the screen does not usually survive this process, but if you're replacing the screen

There are replacement parts available for the Google Pixel 2 and they usually cost less

So the Google Pixel wins the most repairable smartphone for 2017.

Cellphones are some of the most abused pieces of technology on the planet.

And that brings us to all 3 of the iPhones that were released this year from Apple.

Not only are each of these phones made from glass, but the back panels are not replaceable

For a quick example, if I took this LG V30 and popped the glass back off, I could replace

The glass on the iPhone 8 is not replaceable – A) the adhesive is permanent, and B) the

camera lens is welded onto the metal frame beneath the glass, sandwiching the glass together.

Without AppleCare, the glass replacement for the iPhone 8 is $350.

And for the iPhone 10, it's $549 to replace the back glass panel.

Glass breaks, and so these broken back glass panels are going to be pretty common with

And if you're out of warranty, or you didn't buy AppleCare, it's going to be cheaper just

to buy a new phone, which is exactly what Apple wants you to do.

With Apple throttling all of their older phones and making their new phones impossible to

repair, it's their way of motivating you to buy new products.

Pretty annoying in my opinion, but if you're into that kind of thing, that's what makes

the iPhones of this year the least repairable phones of 2017.

Like I mentioned earlier, most of the smartphone manufacturers this year have released glass

backed phones, which makes my choice for most durable smartphone for 2017 pretty difficult

And as any drop test on YouTube can testify - glass breaks, sometimes from very short

My choice for the most durable smartphone of 2017 is a metal phone coming from Nokia.

This was the most rigid phone I probably have ever tested on my channel, and I've tested

A metal phone is much less likely to crack in general than a glass phone.

Some of you might be asking, but wait, Jerry, the Pixel 2 was not a glass phone.

Why isn't is the most durable smartphone of the year?

For two reasons: 1) the Pixel 2 did have a crack right next to that power button.

And the Pixel 2XL is still made out of the same material that the Pixel 2 is.

It has that soft, thick exterior coating on the surface that can scrape away or discolor

The runners up for the most durable smartphone of the year though, are glass phones.

The LG V30, the Galaxy Note 8, and the Galaxy S8 basically all have the same style of construction,

very rigid, but have that glass panel on the back.

Each of these glass panels...$15 for the LG V30, and about $20 for the Note 8...are replaceable

So while they might not be extremely durable to start off with, at least they can be repaired,

and repaired for pretty cheap, making that back glass panel pretty much a nonissue.

Apple could have done the same, but they want you to buy more phones.

I have this place called a Shelf of Shame where phones go that couldn't pass my durability

I think manufacturers are getting better with time.

I hope my videos have something to do with that.

The Honor 6X was one of the few phones that did not pass my durability tests this year,

During the bend test, the screen on the BlackBerry KeyOne popped off, which isn't a characteristic

that most of you are looking for in a smartphone.

I'll talk more about the BlackBerry KeyOne in a second and why it didn't win the least

The HTC U11 is the weakest smartphone of 2017.

For one, it's glass on both sides and during the bend test the screen was obliterated.

And this happened for two reasons: 1) HTC added that new squeeze feature to this phone,

where the frame of the phone is a button basically when you squeeze it.

This also makes the frame of the phone more flexible.

The second problem is the glass of the screen is in direct contact with the flexible metal

So any flex or drop transfers the impact directly into the glass.

And as we learned earlier, glass is glass, and glass is fragile.

It's a little disappointing because on some of HTC's other phones, they put a plastic

layer in-between the glass and the metal, which kind of absorbs any impacts, drops or

bends, and keeps the energy from transferring from the metal layer to the glass.

It's a much better design, HTC just didn't do that with the U11, making it the weakest

But it's not bad news if you own one of these phones, a simple case would solve all of those

The more you know, the more you can protect against it.

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