Motorola has launched the toughest smartphone yet, The Motorola Z Force 2 which survived despite after being dropped 28 times.
The famous tech site Cnet, tested the phone more than it’s resistant capability. However, the phone lived up to its mark and passed the test with a few scratches.
First they drop the phone on Wood. According to the site, “We wanted to establish a baseline, so we started by dropping the Moto Z2 Force face-down on a wooden floor in our office, from 3, 4 and 5 feet (we repeated some tests).”
“Along the way, we noticed some subtle damage along the edges. The material looked like it was starting to ever-so slightly pull away from the phone’s aluminum frame but it didn’t completely separate.”
Second they dropped the device on Concrete. We fumbled the Z2 Force at different selfie heights onto the sidewalk and the hard plaza of CNET’s San Francisco headquarters. On the ninth drop (out of all 28), the screen got its first major ding, a scrape on the phone’s top right corner that peeled away a portion of the ShatterShield topcoat. No other scrapes in subsequent drops
In the Plexiglass test, they set up a layer of hard plexiglass between two boxes and dropped the phone face-down on that several times.
This was mostly done to set up a video shot. After the pummeling on concrete, the Z2 Force escaped this relatively mild surface casualty-free.
At last they took it to extreme rock test. Their video team traipsed down to the coast to simulate some tumbles onto the rugged sandstone and rocks at one of San Francisco’s harshest bits of beach. We dropped the Z2 Force 10 times in four different spots, purposely saving these most punishing drops for last. Punishing, it was. The loose rocks immediately scratched, scraped and scuffed the Z2 Force’s display — but the screen was, for the most part, usable until the damage really added up. In real life, you’d probably only drop it in this environment once.
Conclusion of the above test is that, ShatterShield does what it says. After a beating, the Moto Z2 Force was absolutely roughed up, but the screen upheld Moto’s promise.
Is it worth its high $730 price? That’s a tougher question to answer.
