Bored Smashing - GROCERY STORE PHONES!

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*This article is about the mini-series started by King in 2016. For the related smashing series started in 2012, see Bored Smashing.*

**“**Let’s boot her up!**”**
— King, whenever he turns on a phone in Grocery Store Phones

## Basic Information

**Bored Smashing - GROCERY STORE PHONES!** is a series made by Plainrock124 and a mini-series of the larger Bored Smashing series. The series originally featured King smashing prepaid phones he found at his local Fry's Food and Drug and later Walmart (since he moved), but since episode 8, it is now a series of King smashing strange or unique phones. It currently has 16 and a half episodes.

## Background

In this series, King buys a unique and interesting phone (usually from eBay), reviews it, durability tests it, then destroys it. Prior to episode 8, all of the phones were brought from King’s local grocery store.

Occasionally, King durability tests another phone (or electronic, it’s not always a phone) alongside the main one to see which one is more durable, for example in episode 16, the Microsoft Surface Duo competed against the Nintendo DS due to the unfunny joke about how a Surface Duo looks like a DS.

First, King unboxes the phone. He usually does it carelessly, gets rid of all the accessories and rips up all of the manuals. He removes the screen protector, puts the battery in and turns the phone on.

In the reviewing part, King connects the phone to his own iPhone’s mobile hotspot. He tests out the camera and video recorder, as well as YouTube playback (if the phone runs on Android), what apps and features are included. He also takes a look at the quirky design features.

In the scratch test, King ties the phone (via a charging cable) to the end of his Boosted Board and drags it around while scratching against the ground. He then inspects the damage.

In the drop test, King does multiple different drops:

* **Back side:** On this one, he drops the phone on its backside, where the camera usually is.
* **Corner:** On this one, he drops the phone on its corner. This drop was formerly called “Side”.
* **Face-down:** On this one, he drops the phone on its screen.
* **Ludicrous drop test:** On this one, King throws the phone high into the air until it drops from the sky.

In some episodes, King does a water test. Normally, King puts the phone in an empty Kikkoman soy sauce bucket. He then fills the bucket with hose water until the phone dies. King measures how much water it took to kill the phone. However, in episode 8, he improvised and instead put the Posh Micro X in different situations which involve water, ranging from him accidentally taking the phone to the shower, to accidentally washing the dishes with it instead of Brillo, to just deliberately throwing it in a bucket of water because he was bored.

In the final part, King destroys the phone completely. He usually lights it on fire, then hits it with a hammer or other tool multiple times until the phone is a mangled mess. He then throws the phone and its packaging into the garbage, after which the outro plays.

## Trivia

* When Bored Smashing - GROCERY STORE PHONES! first started, King had also planned on smashing the Alcatel A205G and the Samsung Galaxy Stardust as part of the series. Sadly, both of those phones were sold out, and as a result, those videos never were made.