OnePlus 10 Pro has a structural problem [video]

And that structural problem of the OnePlus 10 Pro is very literal in this case.

What do you think is important about a smartphone? The speed? The camera? The software? Let’s turn it around: how important is it that he is a little well put together?

Strength test

What is probably important for everyone: that it does not break. If you drop it after three years and it cracks, good. But smartphone manufacturers must do their best to ensure that your phone is not suddenly broken due to normal signs of use.

JerryRigEverything

Luckily there’s YouTuber Zach Nelson, better known as JerryRigEverything. His smartphone reviews aren’t about how good or bad they are, just how strong they are. He does a number of tests for this, often with the same results. We’ve covered that. Think of looking at how scratch-resistant the screen is with the Mohs hardness scale, materials tests by scratching the frame with a box cutter, seeing what a fire does to the screen and the last and most feared test: the break test.

OnePlus 10 Pro could break

Because since smartphones look like they do now, you often think of a fragile thing. Elongated, thin and made of glass on the front and back. Nevertheless, an aluminum or stainless steel frame can often ensure that telephones remain intact. Often. Because there have been few phones that break in half recently, but they do exist. Unfortunately for OnePlus, their OnePlus 10 Pro is hit.

Quite painful to watch: the phone breaks in half like a Lays chip. Nevertheless, the OnePlus 10 Pro does not seem to differ from many rivals and/or predecessors in terms of shape and structure. Usually the battery partly contributes to the strength. Now the battery is just below the point where the phone broke. There is also an interruption of the frame on both sides of the ‘break line’, such as an antenna line and the volume knob. Not good news for the OnePlus 10 Pro.

Nelson does say that this is the Chinese version of the phone. Perhaps they are still working on strengthening things a bit before it is released worldwide. And otherwise: don’t sit on your phone if you have a OnePlus 10 Pro.