Watch this Chinese smartphone survive drills, water, hammers, cars, cement, and more

Some people are harder on their phones than others. You've seen them on the subway, swiping away through cracked screens. You've seen them on the street, fishing their smartphone out of muddy puddles and cursing. Perhaps you've even seen one of them in the mirror, wishing that someone made a decent smartphone strong enough to your not-so-gentle usage habits. Because while there are some rugged smartphone options out there, they tend to offer pretty weak performance.

Chinese smartphone maker Blackview claims to have the answer to your prayers. It's called the BV6000, it costs less than US$200, and it comes with an octo-core Mediatek Helio P10 chipset and 3GB RAM, a 720p 4.7-inch display, and 32 GB of storage. Sure, it's no iPhone 7, but that's pretty solid performance for the price.

Oh, and did I mention the thing is goddamn near indestructible?

The phone is rated IP68, meaning that it's completely waterproof and dust-sealed. It also sports some pretty impressive shock absorption. But why read about the phone's bombproof build quality when you can watch the people who made it try to destroy it? Blackview has a Youtube channel and the company has been using it to wage war against the BV6000 for some time now.

First they dropped a bunch of BV6000s off a wall, threw them into the air, and ran them over with a car:

Then they tried using the phone's screen as a nutcracker, a cutting board, and a hammer before trying (not very hard, admittedly) to drill through then with a power drill:

Then they threw one into a washing machine:

Then they dropped one into a pile of gooey paste:

Then they dumped one into a fish tank:

Most recently, they put one into the middle of a block of wet cement, let it (mostly) harden, and then chipped it out roughly with a hammer:

That last video was posted on Tuesday, and Blackview has been uploading these things with surprising regularity, so it will be interesting to see what the company thinks of next. Maybe they'll freeze one? That's something they tried with the BV6000's predecessor, the BV5000.

In any event, if you're in need of a new smartphone that's damn near bulletproof but aren't interested in breaking the bank, the BV6000 could be worth a look.

(Hat tip to Gizchina for tipping us off about the latest BV6000 video)

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