Honor X70 vs. excavator and fire hose

Honor is unveiling the X70 on July 15, and the brand has ramped up its teaser campaign for the phone now that it’s mere hours away from becoming official.

Have you ever wondered who’d win a confrontation between a yet-unannounced smartphone and a Sany SY205C-S excavator? Well, the video below will give you the answer.

Spoiler alert: the phone is affixed to one of the excavator’s bucket’s teeth, and then the excavator does some good ‘ol excavating, with the phone over there. At the end, after being exposed to a whole lot of dirt, it survives unscathed, as you’d expect.

In the second part of the video, the phone is hit by the excavator’s bucket, which makes it fly in the air for a while until it falls to the ground. Naturally, it’s fine. And finally (and most insanely), it’s ‘pressed’ by the excavator’s bucket, once again making it through with no issues.

Next up, a fire hose. This one’s more straightforward – the fire hose shoots water directly at the phone, and it’s fine thanks to its IP69 and IP69K water resistance ratings, even though other items aren’t.

The Honor X70 will have a record-breaking (for a mainstream smartphone) 8,300 mAh battery but will somehow still be less than 8mm thick and weigh less than 200g. It’s going to boast a 6.79-inch 1200×2640 OLED screen, the Snapdragon 6 Gen 4 SoC at the helm, 12GB of RAM, 256GB of storage, and MagicOS 9 out of the box.