I've done my fair share of drop tests in my time at CNET, and I've never come out of one without a broken phone. Until now. The iPhone XS didn't crack.
I took Apple's new iPhone XS through my typical four-drop tests, the same one that cracked last year's iPhone X on the first fall. But while the new iPhone XS looks a lot like last year's X, with a stainless steel frame and glass on either side, this time it may just be that glass that sets the iPhone XS apart -- and above.
At last week's launch, Phil Schiller, Apple's marketing chief, said the iPhone XS is "covered on the front and the back with a new formulation of glass that is the most durable glass ever in a smartphone."
This isn't the first time we've heard this from Apple. In fact, Apple also said that last year's 2017 iPhone lineup had "the most durable glass ever built into a smartphone," and you know what happened to our iPhone X.
I subjected a brand-new gold iPhone XS to a series of drops on the cement sidewalk outside of CNET's San Francisco headquarters, the place where many of our phones have met their doom.
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