OnePlus formally revealed the OnePlus 10 Pro just a few days into 2022. The flagship phone then launched in China on January 11th, and OnePlus plans to release it in the US this spring. As with other recent OnePlus phones, the OnePlus 10 Pro has an impressive specs sheet that includes Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 CPU. But as powerful as the hardware may be, a recent OnePlus 10 Pro video demonstrates the limits of the phone’s durability.
OnePlus 10 Pro tautness test gone wrong
Earlier this week, Zack Nelson (JerryRigEverything on YouTube) published his tautness test video focused on the OnePlus 10 Pro. Halfway through the video, Nelson performs the wrench test. This test involves holding the phone horizontally with his fingers on the exhibit and his thumbs on the rear panel. He then proceeds to printing in on the part-way of the phone with his thumbs while pulling when on the front with his fingers.
He states: “If you overly hear noises during this portion of the video, it’s usually a bad thing.” Needless to say, you will hear noises at virtually the 7:10 mark in the video below:
Immediately without Nelson begins to put pressure on the device, cracks uncork to towards in the frosted glass. As he notes, the cracks consolidated into a line directly underneath the “stove-top” camera bump. At this point, the phone is in rough shape, but is still functional.
He then proceeds to flip the phone over and begins to printing on the display. The phone snaps in half right where the cracks had been forming underneath the rear camera array.
Why is the new OnePlus phone so breakable?
Nelson explains that most phones can’t be snapped into two pieces by hand.
As such, he wants to icon out why he was worldly-wise to unravel the OnePlus 10 Pro so easily. As he performs an impromptu tear down, he points out that the OnePlus 10 Pro’s massive dual-cell 5,000mAh shower runs lengthwise wideness the unshortened device. This leaves nothing but the side rails to take the gravity of any lattermost pressure placed upon the phone.
Nelson moreover shows that the volume sawed-off on the side of the phone is sitting right where the phone split in half. Its placement seemingly unsalaried to the lack of structural integrity. As a result, you will need to be uneaten shielding if you plan to buy the OnePlus 10 Pro and put it in your when pocket. If you sit wrong, your phone could end up looking like Nelson’s.
In the video, Nelson speculates that the disappointing tautness might have something to do with the company’s release strategy for the OnePlus 10 Pro. The phone has been misogynist in China for nearly two months now, but still doesn’t have a US release date. Perhaps the visitor wants to make the phone less tender first.
If you want to know increasingly well-nigh the OnePlus 10 Pro (aside from its durability), be sure to check out our post from the utterance when in January.
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