iPhone 6 Plus meets 50-caliber bullet in slo-motion

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[Brother Cracker]

Richard Ryan fired a 50-caliber round from a Barrett M82A1 rifle through an iPhone 6 Plus as part of his "six days of torture tests" smartphone project.

[PGR88]

A .50 caliber round through an iPhone is not torture, its summary execution.

[Blue Jays]

Link provided had three durability tests:

• drop into water and quick retrieval (pass)
• drop onto dirt surface (pass)
• drop onto flat concrete surface(fail)

[Swordmaker]

WHY? Some people have more money than sense. Who needs to prove a brand new iPhone 6 loses to a .50 Caliber rifle bullet?— PING!

Apple iPhone 6 v. .50 Caliber Ping!

If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me. http://www.worldwidehippies.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Obama_Howdy_Doodat.jpg

[wrench]

Where is the microwave charging video? I think that is the best feature of the 6, after-all, everyone has a microwave.

[IronJack]

I don’t have either a Barrett or an iPhone. But I can’t wait to try that with a 22-250 and this piece of crap Samsdung.

[Vaduz]

Why?

[rarestia]

Link provided is wrong. Here's the correct link:

iPhone 6 Plus vs 50 cal

I hate OP for making me sit through 3 commercials to get that.

[from occupied ga]

Richard Ryan fired a 50-caliber round from a Barrett M82A1 rifle through an iPhone 6 Plus

What's the point?

[Justa]

The money shots:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_gEiU_FDxQ&feature=player_detailpage&list=PLA8B9BACF92DA70AB#t=144

[jstaff]

Pleasure.

[from occupied ga]

Pleasure.

Doesn't do a thing for me.

[DocJhn]

Can you hear me now?

[mountainlion]

There is no cell reception here so I do not need these fragile devices.

[montag813]

Completely useless and stupid videos. Blender. Nitrogen. Of course its destroyed.

So why do I watch?

[Behind Liberal Lines]

What's the point?

Publicity? Sort of a modern take on the old Timex "it takes a licking and keeps on ticking" ads?

[from occupied ga]

"it takes a licking and keeps on ticking" ads?

Except it didn't keep on ticking.

[Behind Liberal Lines]

Hence my calling it a variation. Perhaps I should have compared it to Mythbusters. I see it as something of a PR move for the company that runs the tests more than for the phone.

[minnesota_bound]

If only the iPhone 6 had that sapphire glass. Why that .50 caliber bullet would just bounce off. Well maybe the iPhone 7 will have it and all will be safer for it...

[2CAVTrooper]

iPhones have always been pantywaists of cell phones.... So much as sneeze on them and they turn into a $600 paperweight.

I for one have the Kyocera Brigadier, and yeah it doesn’t have those flashy gimmicks of the iPhone and at a third of the cost it’s 1000X’s more rugged too.