SquareTrade Puts The iPhone 5 Against The Galaxy S III In A “Household Trauma” Test, Who Will Win?

Setting aside our smartphone OS allegiances for the moment, durability tests are an inevitable part of high-profile launches these days and our friends at SquareTrade pitted the Galaxy S III against the iPhone 5. Who will win?

Of course, we should say that this test isn’t exactly scientific and if it were performed again, the odds might be against the iPhone as the Galaxy S III manages to fall or get hit in the worst possible spots each time. Is this a matter of chance, or a look at which company has the better manufacturing process? It could be both, it could be neither, but it’s still fun.

The latest SquareTrade face-off video is here, and we pitted the Samsung Galaxy S3 vs. the iPhone 5. The theme was Household Trauma. We tested the phones when they were dropped in the driveway, went for a swim in the pool and when various household items were dropped on them. The result? Well, see for yourself!

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kanoneyez 72 pts

I wonder if these idiots take the phones back to where they bought them and claim "something happened" to the phones and get full return value.

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These test are far from close. They never should have posted this crap without being properly executed. Shame on you phonedog. 

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Tuliomesa82 23 pts

sad part is that the s3 landed square on the screen while the iphone landed on the edge

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kanoneyez 72 pts

 Tuliomesa82 Great Point! And that is one of the main issues I have with theses unscientific tests. Just dropping a phone randomly is far from the real tests that both the OEMs and the carriers put the phones through. Although some may argue that the tests mimic the real world, that is far from completely true. To really test a screen, you need to drop both on the screen. To test dropping a phone on its edge, you need a method to control the drop to ensure it drops on its edge. OEMs have such tests. All Square Trade (and others like them) did was destroy an expensive device and prove nothing.

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deraildoax 10 pts

Yeah. I think the test is pretty much BS. The tables could have turned and the iPhone could have been the one landing on its face on the concrete, or having the edge of the beer bottle impacting it instead of how much more optimal its impacts were. If you watch the video again you can see the force of the bottle is distributed into the side of the iPhone because it hits level while the GS3 bottle lands on one corner of the bottle directly on the screen. Not exactly scientific, it's just fun to break stuff. :)

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darinbro 9 pts

the tests are close but not exact.  Myth busters would tear these apart.  Starting from the first one where the galaxy is dropped face first, then the iphone is dropped on its edge.  I am sure the end would be similair, but at least try to make the impact equal.

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