, who at least paid for the phones they broke or mutilated during stress tests, these people are going out and destroying Apple's property.
For some people, apparently it's not enough to see Apple's iPhone 6 Plus abused on YouTube. They've got to experience mustering every last bit of their strength to bend Apple's 5.5-inch phablet firsthand. But unlike Unbox Therapy and Consumer Reports
, who at least paid for the phones they broke or mutilated during stress tests, these people are going out and destroying Apple's property. Our smartphones are the single most important devices we own. They're the tools we use to communicate with our loved ones, our offices made mobile. They're our game consoles, our conduit for watching and reading anything the internet offers. They've also become the remote controls to our televisions, our homes, our cars, and more. Smartphones are the hub for everything we do, everywhere we go — there's no more intimate, more personal, more important piece of personal technology.
A few blocks away from Apple's bustling campus in Cupertino is a rather nondescript building. Inside is absolutely the last place on earth you'd want to be if you were an iPhone. It's here where Apple subjects its newest models to the kinds of things they might run into in the real world: drops, pressure, twisting, tapping. Basically all the things that could turn your shiny gadget into a small pile of metal and glass.
According to research conducted by ComScore, the owners of older iPhones are hotly anticipating Apple's latest handset. Indeed, the next iPhone is set to spark a spate of upgrades, with 46 percent of iPhone 3G/3GS owners planning to exchange their dusty old devices for something more innovative, speedy and shiny.
We've taken Apple's newest iPhones all the way to Iceland to see how well they stack up against last year's model, but what about the original iPhone — and maybe everything in between? That's just what Camera+ app-maker and photographer Lisa Bettany has done with all eight of Apple's iPhone models thus far (except for last year's iPhone 5C) to show the difference a year — or seven — makes in terms of camera hardware.
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