SHENZHEN, CHINA—In a building in downtown Shenzhen, white-coated technicians are quietly, methodically torturing cell phones to death. Don’t worry—after they break them, they’re hoping you won’t be able to do the same. Here in Shenzhen, I’ve been able to scope out several stages of the cell-phone manufacturing process. The torture test site—I mean, the testing and verification lab—has to be the most fun by far, though. Reps from ZTE, the world’s fifth-largest mobile phone manufacturer, gave me a peek into the testing process today in their downtown Shenzhen skyscraper. The ZTE testing lab is divided into little rooms, each one devoted to a different kind of torment. One room, for instance, is all about heat, humidity, and cold. ZTE technicians bake phones and batteries in ovens at up to 80 degrees Celsius. In other boxes, they flip between burning-hot and freezing-cold temperatures every five seconds. One steamed-over, greenhouse-like box bathes phones in “salt spray,” another looks like it contains a lawn sprinkler system with a pedestal in the middle for a phone to get rained on. View all Photos in Gallery Move to the next room, and a giant box rotates like a Ferris wheel, dropping phones to the floor… Read full this story
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