What will happen if you damage "LG G Flex" which adopted self-restoring material on the back with a knife or key?

A smartphone sold in Korea from November 12, 2013LG G Flex"Has a curved surface organic EL display and realizes durability that does not break even if it bends to a certain extent and also adopts a self-correcting coating that disappears spontaneously if it is scratches on the back side. In LG G Flex promotion movie released by LG, it is reflected that the rear panel with the scratch actually self-correcting or that it does not break even if it is bent after loading the weight Doubted Marques Brownlee is experimenting whether it is really okay to hurt the back panel of LG G Flex with a knife or key, trying to bend thoroughly, and so on.

The promotion movie of LG G Flex can be confirmed from the following.

LG G Flex - Self Healing and Durability - YouTube


LG G Flex is designed like this with curved up and down of the main body.


In a 27.4 degree room, rub the generic smartphone and the back of the LG G Flex with a 500 gram copper brush.


I scratched a little, the back of the general smartphone on the left is covered with scratches on the left, but the right LG G Flex is dull.


After rubbing for a while, the scratches on LG G Flex will gradually become thinner.


After 2 minutes, scratches almost disappeared.


Next is an experiment to test durability.


First of all, put on an 8 kg weight ... ...


Next, when we put a weight of 16 kg, LG G Flex became Pettanko.


I will put a 32 kg weight in the end.


When I turned on the power after taking the weight, LG G Flex was not broken at all.


Marques Brownlee says that he was not convinced of the above promotion movie, he actually experimented with hurting LG G Flex using a knife or key. You can check the appearance of Marques Brownlee's experiment from the following movie.

LG G Flex Self Healing Demo!


First of all, try to scratch the back panel with the key assuming when LG G Flex is put in a pocket or bag.


When scratching for a few seconds ......


The back panel was slightly scratched.


If you confirm it in a few minutes, the wound can not be said to be perfect but it is almost gone.


Next time I will try scratching with a knife.


When pulling the knife in the horizontal direction ......


Clear and scratched on the back panel.


After several hours, scratches on the back panel almost disappeared.


Next is an experiment to measure the durability by actually bending the LG G Flex.


Put your hands on top of LG G Flex ... ...


On weight, LG G Flex became completely flat.


Now turn over the LG G Flex and try to bend the warped part of the body.


When pressed with a little, LG G Flex flattened ... ...


When I take my hands off, it's restored.


When checking the display at the end, it is not damaged, etc. and it works without problems.


After the experiment, Marques Brownlee praised LG G Flex "I have never had such a wonderful smartphone up to now".


In addition, the release of LG G Flex in Japan is undecided as of November 21, 2013.