Most of us happened to lose the smartphone to the ground. At such a moment can not help but fall into panic. Quickly bending, lifting the phone and start to test it for various failures.
According to research by Motorola, 50% of owners of mobile devices are ever broken display after their release on the ground. And since the repair is expensive, but also creates a number of inconveniences, 43% of people decide to buy a new gadget. It is therefore not surprising that sales of cases for smartphones thrive.
Profits from the sale of mobile accessories in the world amounted to $ 81.5 billion last year, according to ABI Research. Experts often recommend purchasing cases that meet military standard MIL-STD-810G for resistance, but unfortunately, these standards are not as strict as we think.
It turns out that not all military tests are equally reliable. By Digital Trends spoke with experts behind some of the best cases for smartphones, to understand what the real meaning of these certificates.
MILITARY STANDARD MIL-STD-810G
The document describing the military standard MIL-STD-810G is more than 800 pages. If interested can download it from EverySpec, but to save your time will clarify that it requires the device to be tested for durability by dropping a surface of plywood, which is two inches thick resting on concrete.
The device should be dropped 26 times on each side. After each release, the device is visually checked for functional and structural integrity.
However, manufacturers are allowed to use up to five different samples during tests. This means that each case is likely to be discharged only five or six times, and the orientation can be changed for each discharge when not tested for cumulative damage. Moreover talk about release on plywood, not on the sidewalk.
Consumers can trust the MIL-STD-810G as a key indicator that the cover is designed to protect the device from dropping from a height of 1.20 meters, but they have to read the fine print to get all the information on how the test was performed and under what conditions.
TESTS FOR MILITARY STANDARDS VARY WIDELY
Pelican company tests its cases dropping smartphone 20 times on the ground 1.2 meters high and then by 1.8 meters on the surface of hardwood over concrete. After each release is seen for any damage to the device and if it finds one, the engineers go back to the drawing board to redesign the cover.
In Otterbox test devices subtle damage than the obvious, ie full functionality – physical, acoustic, tactile, size and aesthetics. Otterbox is not the only manufacturer that relies on proper testing because not all faults are visible at first sight. There may be internal damage to the microphone, speaker, buttons, antenna damage, and so on. If your machine starts behaving in a way that has not worked before him drop to the ground and can not understand why this may be due to internal damage.
Manufacturers of cases conduct their own tests for reliability of its products. Therefore very difficult to give an accurate comparative effectiveness of different cases. The lack of uniform standards for the tests creates a real problem for consumers to fully understand the real benefits of using the case for your device.
WHAT IS IT GOOD TO TAKE INTO ACCOUNT USERS?
Just because on the carton of the case you printed military standard MIL-STD-810Gstandard or is registered on a site does not guarantee that if you drop your device from a height of 1.30 meters it will remain completely intact. As mentioned above should read the fine print to get all the information about how the test was performed and under what conditions, but in the end, the lack of an independent body that tests each case, in the same way, everything comes down to trust.
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