Does the Pixel 4 Have a Bending Issue?

So far , by from fear about itsface unlock working even when someone ’s centre are closed , thePixel 4’slaunch has been smoother thanGoogle ’s previous earpiece . However , in a recent video , YouTube distribution channel JerryRigEverything may have unveil a likely issuance with the late Pixel .

In Zack Nelson ’s ( the guy wire behind JerryRigEverything ) most recent durability test , he found that after trying to bend the Pixel 4 , it did n’t carry up quite as well as he expected . Just by using his script and a bit of effort , he was capable to crack the earphone ’s skeletal system in multiple locations .

While the trial is n’t exactly very scientific , it yell back to a standardised issueApple confront with the iPhone 6 Plusafter buyers report that their young telephone were stoop , despite plainly using and carrying the machine in a normal mode . Then a few years afterwards , something similarhappened to the 2018 iPad Pro , which Apple admitted was prostrate to bending .

On the iPhone 6 Plus and iPad Pro , Apple ’s primary problem was an aluminum underframe that had been compromise by cutout for the SIM tray and antennas that weakened the phone ’s overall geomorphologic unity , and based on Nelson ’s video , the Pixel 4 suffers from similar issue .

If you watch the video recording , you may see the decimal point at which the Pixel 4 ’s alloy frame snaps is also where Google added plastic banding to help better antenna reception ( since radio waves do n’t travel well through metal ) . commonly , these pliant antenna striation are cover by the matte black-market rouge Google used on the Pixel 4 ’s frame , so they are n’t immediately obvious to an median headphone possessor .

However , it seems that when stressed , these feeler bands are the weak spot in the Pixel 4 ’s design . Nelson also remarked that because telephone set have get a lot stronger over the past few years , he was surprised to see the Pixel 4 ’s frame wisecrack as it did . However , even when he was intentionally seek to break the gimmick , Nelson was only capable to cave in the speech sound when bending it inwards ( towards the screen ) , as when seek to bend it outwards , the Pixel 4 ’s sieve added enough additional resistance to prevent the telephone set from interrupt .

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But the prominent question remain : Does the Pixel 4 have an issue with durability ? I ’m not so sure , because in the video it appeared to take much more elbow grease to break the Pixel 4 than with the iPhone 6 Plus or 2018 iPad Pro . to boot , unlike with the iPhone 6 Plus , there have n’t been widespread reports of Pixel 4 owners kick about broken phones .

Furthermore , none of the Pixel 4 critical review unit I test for our reassessment have present any signaling of break , bending , or crack — even after multiple weeks of use . The possible caveat to all this though goes to masses who lay in their phones in their back pockets and then sit on them , potentially subject the phone to a person ’s full organic structure weight .

But as someone who believes phones should never go in back pockets ( no matter how strong the phone is ) for both durability and surety intellect ( it ’s easier to slip a phone dangling out of someone ’s back air hole ) , the chances of a Pixel 4 being break during normal employment seems highly improbable .

William Duplessie