The Asus ROG Phone 6 Pro underwent what is now a traditional bend test on YouTube earlier this week and didn’t tell the story alive – it snapped in half. This is similar to what happened with the ROG Phone 5 Ultimate last year, so it’s not overly surprising, but still – most phones that go through the same bend tests survive.
what is that? Why does the ROG Phone 6 Pro succumb? That’s what today’s teardown video wants to explore, while also giving us a look inside the phone.
The most striking thing is a strange hole in the middle of the phone, which represents the The passage from the glass to the vapor chamber below the screen. This is probably one way of dissipating heat and not the other, although it definitely doesn’t help increase the structural integrity in the middle of the phone, which is where it’s most needed. The motherboards are stacked, and the thermal paste is blue. The two batteries are connected to each other by a permanent ribbon.
As the durability test video suggests, the most durable part of a phone is basically the screen glass – the Gorilla Glass Victus is clearly no joke. In gamer’s (understandably) service, Asus went with the design of placing a second USB-C port on the side, probably in combination with the aforementioned thermal and power button holes to introduce enough structural fragility, Makes ROG Phone 6 Pro easier to bend than others. However, using a sturdy case might alleviate all of these issues.
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