Watch: Galaxy S8 Is More Breakable Than S7

Watch: Galaxy S8 Is More Brittle Than S7

The Samsung Galaxy S8 is without a doubt the near beautiful phone I've e'er seen, and while I've kept a instance on about every telephone I've endemic, I'd want to make the S8 an exception. Information technology's curved, glass body is one to behold.

Square Trade found the Galaxy S8 to be less durable than the S7. Credit: Square Trade — (Image credit: Foursquare Trade plant the Galaxy S8 to be less durable than the S7. Credit: Foursquare Trade)

But then again, I'm also known to drop my phone, and the latest scientific tests from SquareTrade show that the phone is super-fragile. Peradventure a case is worth it.

SquareTrade sells protection plans for mobile devices, so it'southward not like information technology doesn't have an M.O. here, but the carnage in the video of the tests is enough to make anyone call back twice about letting their S8 go naked. The company has changed its scoring this yr, but says the S8 is far more delicate than last year's S7.

The phone's screen shattered on the offset endeavour to drib it on both its back and front (in fact, dropping on one side led to cracks on the other), and some drinking glass fell off entirely. That's especially bad (and potentially dangerous) considering of the software buttons. When SquareTrade dumped the S8 and S8+ in water, they both had some audio distortion afterward, but that returned to normal after half an hour.

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The visitor gave the Galaxy S8 a breakability score of 76 and the S8+ a score of 77, declaring both devices are "medium-high risk." Both received tepid grades on repairability because of a strong adhesive holding the dorsum panel to the phone. Simply once it'due south pried open up, it'south not too difficult to supercede parts if you accept the know-how (though the bombardment tin be catchy).

Encounter Tom's Guide's review of the Milky way S8 and S8+ here.

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Andrew E. Freedman is an editor at Tom's Hardware focusing on laptops, desktops and gaming likewise as keeping upwards with the latest news. He holds a One thousand.S. in Journalism (Digital Media) from Columbia University. A lover of all things gaming and tech, his previous work has shown up in Kotaku, PCMag, Complex, Tom'due south Guide and Laptop Magazine among others.