{"id":10881,"date":"2017-11-06T12:42:34","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T12:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/galaxy_s8_outdoes_iphone_x_in_freeze_test.html"},"modified":"2022-10-14T18:30:16","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T22:30:16","slug":"galaxy-s8-outdoes-iphone-x-in-freeze-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/galaxy-s8-outdoes-iphone-x-in-freeze-test.html","title":{"rendered":"Galaxy S8 Outdoes iPhone X in Freeze Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The screen test below shows what happens when you put two of the top smartphones on the market &#8211; the Samsung Galaxy S8 and iPhone X in water and then freeze them overnight.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Two frozen phones &#8211; which one will survive?<br \/><\/strong><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/apple-iphone-x-samsung-galaxy-s8-freeze-test.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/assets_c\/2017\/11\/apple-iphone-x-samsung-galaxy-s8-freeze-test-thumb-500x357-16094.png\" alt=\"apple-iphone-x-samsung-galaxy-s8-freeze-test.png\" width=\"500\" height=\"357\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Samsung is unscathed but the iPhone X loses its Face ID ability, its screen doesn&#8217;t work properly and it seems to have lost its data.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wait, what happened to all my data?<br \/><\/strong><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/apple-iphone-x-samsung-galaxy-s8-freeze-test-iphone-reset.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/assets_c\/2017\/11\/apple-iphone-x-samsung-galaxy-s8-freeze-test-iphone-reset-thumb-500x340-16096.png\" alt=\"apple-iphone-x-samsung-galaxy-s8-freeze-test-iphone-reset.png\" width=\"500\" height=\"340\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Even worse &#8211; the entire battery of the iPhone gets used up while the Samsung still has about 40% left.<\/p>\n<p>Most likely, a gap opened up in the iPhone during its blowtorch melting causing water to get it. This in turn seems to have led to a short circuit or even more than one.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The iPhone X green screen of death &#8211; apparently competition with Microsoft <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techopedia.com\/definition\/3323\/blue-screen-of-death-bsod\">BSOD<\/a> is fiercer than we thought.&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"applause\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/mt-static\/plugins\/TinyMCE\/lib\/jscripts\/tiny_mce\/plugins\/emotions\/img\/applause.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"applause\" \/><br \/><\/strong><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/apple-iphone-x-samsung-galaxy-s8-freeze-test-iphone-green-screen-of-death.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/assets_c\/2017\/11\/apple-iphone-x-samsung-galaxy-s8-freeze-test-iphone-green-screen-of-death-thumb-500x598-16098.png\" alt=\"apple-iphone-x-samsung-galaxy-s8-freeze-test-iphone-green-screen-of-death.png\" width=\"500\" height=\"598\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bottom line: The Samsung Galaxy S8 is an absolute champ in this test &#8211; iPhone X users should avoid leaving their phones in water in the freezer overnight.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6PrsZv9HgNM&#038;feature=share\">video<\/a> below shows the freeze test comparison in full:<br \/><\/strong><br \/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6PrsZv9HgNM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The screen test below shows what happens when you put two of the top smartphones on the market &#8211; the Samsung Galaxy S8 and iPhone X in water and then freeze them overnight. Two frozen phones &#8211; which one will survive? The Samsung is unscathed but the iPhone X loses its Face ID ability, its<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166,158,168,171,163,199,173,118,174,175],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10881"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11170,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10881\/revisions\/11170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}