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You take your brand new smartphone out of its box, grip the metal chassis and peel back the plastic from the screen. It is pristine. Deep down you know that this state of perfection will diminish over time, but hope still remains that you will never have to witness that moment when your phone crashes to the floor and a cobweb of cracks spreads across the glass.
将崭新的智能手机从包装盒中取出，手握金属机身，撕去屏幕上的塑料膜，这就是一部手机最初的模样。虽然你内心非常清楚，随着时间的推移，这个完美的状态会逐渐消失，但你仍然抱有希望，认为自己永远不会亲眼见到手机掉到地板上，玻璃屏幕出现状裂痕的那一瞬间。

Fortunately, the fragility of your new handset has been minimised. To giveit the best possible start in life, devices the same as the one you hold inyour hand will have been through thousands of hours of toil to ensure theirhardiness.
幸运的是，这部新手机的易碎性已经被降到最低了。大量手机设备在到达消费者手中之前，已经历经数以千计个小时的艰辛测试，以保证拥有最好的耐用性。

All tech companies, whether they make phones or laptops or cars, havetheir own comprehensive testing regimes to make sure their products are ready for you, In order to gain an insight into how this process works within an international company, WIRED.co.uk took a tour ofHuawei'sglobal compliance and testing unit in its Shanghai research and development centre to see what it takes to ready top-of-the-range smartphones to face the world. For Huawei, China's largest smartphone company, the testing period for each new-to-market device totals five months and sees 2,000 phones in total put through the wringer.
所有的科技公司，不管是生产手机，笔记本电脑，或是汽车，都有自己的综合测试体系，以确保为用户呈现最佳的产品体验。近日，外媒<WIRED.co.uk>就参观了华为上海研发中心的全球服务和测试机构，对行业内顶尖智能手机面世前的检测过程一探究竟。据了解，华为每一款即将上市的新产品都要经过五个月之久的测试期，在上市前至少完成超过2000部手机的测试量，以确保最终发货手机的质量

图：华为上海研究中心

The first stop on the tour is the mechanical stress test lab, which is basically Room 101 for new devices. Within these walls, phones are put throughmore pain than the clumsiest human could possibly inflict on them. A machinecalled the Whirltone tumbling barrel tester sees each test model spun in agiant transparent tombola 100 times. Effectively this simulates the phone being dropped from every angle into every possible position from one height, after which it is repeated 100 times from a second height.
第一站是物理强度测试实验室，这是为新设备准备的101室。在这个实验室内，手机要经受比任何粗鲁的人所施加的更强烈的打击。每一个测试模型都要在透明的泵波拿内旋转100次，这一过程会被Whirltone滚筒检测器检测到。该测试能够有效地模拟手机跌落场景，即手机从一定高度以任意角度被抛下到任意位置，随后这一动作会从第二个高度被重复100次。

While each phone is dropped, an ultra-fast camera records falls at5,000fps, so that if damage does ensue, Huawei can use the footage to identify the exact angle and impact point that caused it.
当每台手机被抛下时，极速相机会以5000帧每秒的速度记录其坠落过程。一旦手机发生伤害，华为可以通过这些连续镜头识别出引起损害的准确角度和损害点。

图：跌落测试场景

Of course being dropped isn't the only way your phone can become damaged.Last year the latest iPhone made headlines due to people claiming that it bent when they sat on it. In order to avoid this fate, Huawei uses soft pressureequipment to test for similar problems in its own phones.
当然，手机受损害的原因不仅仅是跌落。去年，iPhone手机因被网友爆出“弯曲”一事引起热议。为了避免此问题，华为使用柔软压强设备对手机进行了检测。

It is of course highly likely that Apple employs similar tests of its own devices, but without knowing exactly what goes on inside its testing facilities it's hard to sayexactly what went wrong with the last iPhone. Each and every phone company has stringent measures for making sure phones that go on sale are up to both their own and industry standards.
当然，苹果公司极有可能也采用了类似的检测方法，但我们无法准确地了解检测设施的内部构造，所以很难准确地分析iPhone手机到底出了什么问题。相信每一家手机生产商都会采取严格的措施，确保出售的手机既符合自我标准，同时也符合行业标准。

As if that wasn't enough torture, the twist test clamps the phone both atthe top and the bottom and sees it twisted from side to side 500 times -- atest that WIRED.co.uk also conducts when it meets a new phone (albeit in arudimentary, handheld fashion -- and certainly not 500 times over). Also insidethe mechanical stress test lab are machines that test the button life and the connector durability. Phones are again clamped in place and then prodded repeatedly with stamps that look like pencil erasers. In order to simulateusers' real habits, each power button is pressed 200,000 times over the courseof five days and each volume button 50,000 times.
如果你认为以上测试是对手机的折磨，那还只是“小菜一碟”。除此之外，华为手机还会经历弯曲测试，将机身顶部和底部同时夹住，然后从一侧向另一侧弯曲手机500次。同样，在华为的机械强度测试实验室里，还有按键耐久测试和连接器插拔耐久测试的机器。为了模拟用户的使用习惯，每个华为手机的电源键在5天时间内会被按压超过200000次，每个音量键50000次。

图：USB插拔耐久测试

n terms of connectors, two different elements are put through the mill inorder to guarantee reliability to phone users for at least three years. Asimple in-out test makes sure connectors can survive average usage and a second"wiggle test" sees connectors moved back and forth every which way.This basically compensates for the fact that most of the time connectors aren'tpushed into ports at a specific angle, and that when connected, cables can betugged from funny angles.
为了确保用户至少三年的可靠使用，华为手机连接器在生产中会考虑两方面的因素。一是简单的进-出测试，可以保证连接器经受得住平均使用强度；二是“摆动测试”，让连接器在每一个方向前后移动，因为在大多数情况下，连接器并不以特定角度推进端口，而且连上之后，数据线可能会以各种角度被拖出。

除了人为原因，环境也是影响手机性能的一大因素。基于此，华为设立了一个专门实验室，内含18个巨型立方体，每个立方体内都有不同的微气候环境，可以检测到60度温度跨度内手机各项功能的情况。

图：气候测试