iPhone X: most expensive Apple phone is also easiest to break

Tests conclude that iPhone X screen, Face ID and glass back are vulnerable to damage if dropped, but display is ranked by experts as best ever on a smartphone

Apple's most expensive smartphone, the 999 iPhone X, is also its most fragile, according to drop and tumble testing.

Despite Apple's claims of the iPhone X having "the most durable glass ever in a smartphone", warranty provider and habitual drop-tester SquareTrade concluded after a series of 1.8-metre (6ft) drop and tumble tests that the top-end smartphone is the "most breakable, highest-priced, most expensive to repair iPhone ever".