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hi I'm MJ with iFixit and hot on the
heels of our iPhone 5 teardown I am back
with some new information it has come to
our attention that there is some concern
regarding the scuff ability of the
iPhone 5s aluminum rear case so much so
that there's already a small scandal
around it brewing on the internet which
we are calling scuff gate so we decided
to do what we do best and put the iPhone
5s rear panel to the test in a series of
highly scientific experiments designed
to gauge its scuff enos and to help
administer the test allow me to
introduce dr. Ellie Ellie can you turn
around say hi hi Ellie is a highly
accomplished engineer in her field and
also happens to be my two-year-old
daughter Ellie we are gonna take the
iPhone 5 and we're gonna try to smash it
with some keys you want to smash it with
some keys okay hold the keys can you hit
the phone go smash with the keys yeah
try it again try it again how hard can
you do it bang now can you take the keys
and rub them like this Ellie try write
on the phone rub rub rub rub really hard
can you do it three times ready one two
three
good job all done now it's time to take
a look at the damage that's been done
actually it's worse than I thought some
of the dirt was cleaned off but if you
look closely you can see a lot of the
scratches too and there's a little dent
in that Apple I feel kind of bad for
doing that so I know this is kind of an
extreme case but she's not the strongest
two-year-old and this all just happened
so I can only imagine what this is gonna
look like after a couple of weeks of
solid use hi so we're gonna repeat the
process just for comparison on a rear
panel for the iPhone for us so we can
see what kind of damage we can do on
that can you smash this one yeah that's
a good one
do it again
Wow scrub you scrub scrub
good job okay thank you okay so after
cleaning it off a bit I know this might
be counterintuitive but this panel
actually looks like it held up better
even though it's glass granted we
weren't smashing it the way you might if
you were dropping it on the ground but
rubbing the keys all over it didn't
really seem to do much damage
okay so seeming as the keys did so much
damage to the iPhone 5 I'm a little
nervous to try this stainless steel ring
but we're gonna do it anyway so what
we're gonna do is rub it all over and
see how much we can scuff up the back of
the iPhone 5 rub real hard yeah good job
doesn't feel good
even cleaning off the dupes the dirt and
the oil this iPhone looks terrible the
worst part was that edge I don't know if
you could hear it as I was rubbing it oh
it was a terrible sound and it's pretty
destroyed alright and as a quick
comparison we're gonna do the same
process with the ring on the iPhone 4s
and see how much we can scratch that up
okay al here's what we're gonna do we're
gonna take the ring and rub it just like
we did before yeah rub the Apple really
hard this is the iPhone 4s after being
roughed up the with the stainless steel
ring and to be honest you can't even
tell where I did any damage I don't even
know if it did any damage so again the
iPhone 4s proves to be a little more
resilient so I know it kind of made fun
of the term scuff gate earlier but it
seems like scuff gate might be a very
real thing if you're gonna carry around
an iPhone 5 I guess my words to you or
put it in a case because this thing is
destroyed big thanks to my partner in
crime Ellie Ellie can you say bye bye
wave bye bye thanks for helping if you
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