Surprisingly Durable

With the thinness of the iPhone Air, it was inevitable that we’d be seeing the usual pundits putting it through stress tests almost as soon as they could get their hands on one. This year, Apple decided to head them off at the pass by showing off its own testing. In a video provided to Tom’s Guide, it showed how it subjected the new iPhone to a machine that placed 130 pounds of pressure on the middle of the device. While the iPhone Air flexed, it also sprung back as soon as the pressure was removed.

Of course, that didn’t stop the usual crop of YouTubers from conducting their own tests to confirm the results. That’s fair, as one should never take any company’s marketing purely at face value.

As the video above from JerryRigEverything shows, the iPhone Air can’t be bent using the average human hand. It took a mechanical device to apply 215 pounds of point force before it actually broke the front glass, but even then, the iPhone Air remained functional, so that’s a solid point in the “win” column.