The Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge and HTC One M9 would comply … – Les Echos

+ VIDEOS According to Square Trade the two new smartphones withstand even less than the Apple smartphone to a pressure test. Samsung immediately replicated.

It has become a trademark for experts to Square Trade, a US company whose specialty is to ensure mobile devices and thus realizes test strength of smartphones and tablets. Little known in Europe until 2013, the company came to prominence in Europe by alerting consumers to the fact that the new Apple smartphone, the iPhone 6, had a tendency to bend in a trouser fishing.

Giving birth on the Internet to a specific hashtag: the #bendgate, born of the relationship between the word “bent” in English and American Watergate scandal. Square Trade has repeated the experiment by attacking these days to expect next two smartphones on the market in the near future: Samsung Galaxy S6 Korean (in its simplest version and Edge version) and the HTC One M9. The first will be available in France on Friday 10 April, the second also in mid-April.

And once again, test video in support, Square Trade shows these two devices can bend as easily as their American competitor. And are not resistant to its “Bendbot”, the folding robot developed by engineers from Square Trade

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More worrying for the consumer, the Galaxy Edge S6, stopped working long before the iPhone 6.

“The Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge is deformed under a pressure of 110 pounds (49.8 kg) and its screen is cracked. On the verge of catastrophic failure, it broke at 149 pounds for not work, “says Square Trade.

Compared to last fall, “the distortion of the iPhone 6 More Apple took place at 110 pounds, but continued to operate normally. The point of failure catastrophic was impressive, at 179 pounds. “

Samsung response by video

A demonstration that has not appreciated in Seoul, where Samsung has unsheathed his own test video to prove that his smartphone was reliable

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Arguing that the pressure used by Square Trade happens “rarely” and criticizing a test that was done only on the front of the device, Samsung says that the “normal” pressure exerted on the phone when the latter is in the rear pocket of a user is about 30 pounds.

And the video shows produced by Samsung that the Galaxy and Galaxy Edge S6 S6 can withstand up to 32 pounds, the equivalent needed to break 5 crayons same time.