Users today use smartphones that are, more often than not, abused, which leaves scratches on their polished designs.
Stress tests were invented to showcase a smartphone's capabilities in surviving the harshest conditions, which aids users in choosing their devices. These tests help users plan out how they would use and protect their smartphones. Most of the time, after such tests, phones are easily scratched, broken or bent, which informs users that they demand more care and attention. However, in this fast-paced world we live in, who has the money, effort and time? We need our tough phones, and we want them now.
Luckily, it seems that developers from Xiaomi have produced a phone that would survive one of the conditions, a scratch test.
Alex Wang uses various everyday tools on the phone's ceramic back cover to see how long it would last to find its breaking point. He first uses a key, a multi-tool knife, a nail file, a flat file, a triangular file, a handsaw and then, a coping saw. One would imagine that the phone would suffer serious damage from the tools, but the phone's ceramic back survives unscathed. As the video finishes, Wang pulls out his last resort, a drill. A little phone would not survive that, right? Wrong. The ceramic back cover of the Xiaomi Mi 5 Pro pulls off the impossible after Wang forcefully drills a hole in the back of the phone, and again, it survives unscathed.
Xiaomi's flagship phone, the Xiaomi Mi 5 Pro, seems to have been proven to withstand the torture test. On their phone's website, the company gave the ceramic back cover an 8 on the Mohs hardness scale; that's an 8 out of 10, 10 being as hard as a diamond.
The Xiaomi Mi 5 Pro was earlier revealed in February 2016 at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona. Xiaomi had earlier announced that it would be releasing the phone in India this coming March 31. Hugo Barra, VP of Xiaomi Global, confirmed that Xiaomi plans to expand to the U.S. by the end of 2017. The European market has yet to see the phone hit its local stores as previous release announcements from a Polish listing were denied by Xiaomi officials.
