I have been wondering this ever since I got my first cell phone about 7 years ago. Since then, all my cell phones have been through some fair abuse. I have dropped all the phones I have owned onto concrete at least once in their lifetime, all without any notable damage.
However what really gets me is the phone I have now. The HTC Touch Pro 2. Besides the glitchy-ass Windows Mobile, this phone is a tank. It has a big screen which you'd think would shatter just from putting it your pocket, but no. I dropped this phone from head height while sprinting at top speed. It hit the pavement screen down and slid about 10 feet before stopping. I was like "Holy shit, I think I just broke my phone!"
I went to go pick it up, putting the battery back in and battery cover back on, and flipped it around to see how badly the screen was cracked.
I was shocked. There was not even a single scratch on the screen. Like nothing even happened. The only thing that did happen was the top left corner got very slightly scraped. By very slightly, it's almost not noticeable.
So the entire point of this thread is how the hell do they make these phones/screens so durable? I have tried searching, but to no avail. I am guessing the information is proprietary and each manufacturer has their own way of doing it.
Glass is really hard to scratch and they put a protective covering on it.
Everything else is just based on the fact that everything is just solid state and held in place really well.
Guess you shouldn't get an iPhone [I][B]4[/B][/I].
I could make a joke here about how it's as easy to break as glass, but then again, half the phone [B]is[/B] glass.
[QUOTE=LarparNar;23058533]Guess you shouldn't get an iPhone.
I could make a joke here about how it's as easy to break as glass, but then again, half the phone [B]is[/B] glass.[/QUOTE]
I've had an iPod Touch for about a year and it's basically the same thing. I've dropped it and shit and it works fine.
[QUOTE=LarparNar;23058533]Guess you shouldn't get an iPhone.
I could make a joke here about how it's as easy to break as glass, but then again, half the phone [B]is[/B] glass.[/QUOTE]
Good god shut up.
Have you ever had one?
[QUOTE=ExTek;23060919]Good god shut up.
Have you ever had one?[/QUOTE]
Having one or not having one doesn't change the fact that if you drop it from shoulder height, then it's pretty dead till you get the glass replaced.
[QUOTE=ExTek;23060919]Good god shut up.
Have you ever had one?[/QUOTE]
I have an iPhone 3G and I can attest to the fact that it's durable as shit, a friend of mine was playing with the light saber app and he accidentally threw it across my school's locker room, and it hit the ground hard on its screen and it slid on the rough tile floor before hitting the wall pretty roughly, but worries over the iPhone 4's glass back are more than justified, the ones that have broken so far have broken in very benign situations; it just wasn't a good idea to begin with.
It's the iPhone 4 that's covered in glass, and it's undeniable that it breaks more easily than other phones.
He's is talking about the iphone 4g and how it will crack, and for shogoll when it landed on the screen the force was absorbed by the whole face of the phone, and the fact that it was flying horizontally not downward.
Also master117 the Tp2 is a beast of a phone I'm jealous and pissed I went with the first one. The way the screen was held on led to the mainboard of mine to die.
Nokia 3310s are awesome, I've thrown it through hell and back at least trice.
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I know that ipod touches and Zunes use it, don't know about cell phones though.
My nokia 3310 still works.
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The only thing I've ever needed to replace was the battery. I have 5 unopened original nokia 3310 batteries
I just don't know why every thread about a cell phone being shit an iPhone is brought up.
The ONLY time I broke my iPhone is when my aunt stepped on it and it broke the screen. Then I got an iPhone 4.
[QUOTE=LarparNar;23058533]Guess you shouldn't get an iPhone.
I could make a joke here about how it's as easy to break as glass, but then again, half the phone [B]is[/B] glass.[/QUOTE]
What?
I've have an iPhone 3G, dropped it a lot and it's almost as good as a new one.
Though I've had a Sony Ericsson K750i, dropped it at concrete from around 1 meter in the air and it just restarted and then it was fine.
Plastic hurf durf :downs:
I once got fustrated and threw my iphone 3gs into a wall. Still works, only a scratch on the side. I think it was Itunes that fucked with me, so of course the iphone was gonna get it.
[QUOTE=AntonFTW;23064584]What?
I've have an iPhone 3G, dropped it a lot and it's almost as good as a new one.
Though I've had a Sony Ericsson K750i, dropped it at concrete from around 1 meter in the air and it just restarted and then it was fine.[/QUOTE]
Is your iPhone 3G made of glass? No it's not.
I'm talking about the iPhone 4.
Oh gods I remember the 3310. The thing could withstand an apocalypse and still make a call afterwards.
Though another mobile phone that seems to have survived everything apart from drowning was the se w200i. I think it wasn't a fan of beer. To be honest the only thing that was borked was the backlight, but still.
I have had cellphones go through the washer and survive. My last victim was the LG chocolate, it survived and the only thing that broke was the sound.
[QUOTE=LarparNar;23066312]Is your iPhone 3G made of glass? No it's not.
I'm talking about the iPhone 4.[/QUOTE]
[b]THIS JUST IN; GLASS BREAKS WHEN DROPPED! [i]Full story at 11.[/i][/b]
iPhone 4 has aiplane glass so I don't know what half the posters in this thread are talking about.
iPhone 4's glass is apparently as hard as sapphire.
[QUOTE=ExTek;23069199][b]THIS JUST IN; GLASS BREAKS WHEN DROPPED! [i]Full story at 11.[/i][/b][/QUOTE]
:foxnews:
I got my first cell, a Sony Ericsson T630, after it had slid out of my dad's pocket while he was repainting the house. It fell seven meters into a concrete block, and nothing happened. It didn't even turn off.
Another interesting anecdote: Since I studied in the far north for a while, there was a lot of snow. One day in the middle of May, me and a friend of mine was out walking when we came over this big pile of melting snow. In it, on one of those pedestals that form when something shields the underlying snow from melting, lay a SE phone.
Half of the buttons were missing, and it was completely soaked. Nevertheless, when I pushed the power button, it started up with a little whirr, the screen showed that detergent-ball logo, and the boot-up sound started playing. It got through half the boot process before the battery died. I find that pretty impressive, considering it must have been laying there since the end of October.
My old Motorola Krzr was pretty fucking solid, so was my LG Muziq and now my Samsung Instinct.
[QUOTE=Shogoll;23061150]I have an iPhone 3G and I can attest to the fact that it's durable as shit, a friend of mine was playing with the light saber app and he accidentally threw it across my school's locker room, and it hit the ground hard on its screen and it slid on the rough tile floor before hitting the wall pretty roughly, but worries over the iPhone 4's glass back are more than justified, the ones that have broken so far have broken in very benign situations; it just wasn't a good idea to begin with.[/QUOTE]
That'd be why I deleted that app along time ago.
[QUOTE=Master117;23058244]I have dropped all the phones I have owned onto concrete at least once in their lifetime, all without any notable damage.[/QUOTE]
Where are you getting these phones!?!
Every phone I've had, except one, first drop they were dead.
One phone I dropped twice before it screwed up (screen went all blue and crap).
It's one of the main reason's I don't carry/use a mobile much anymore.
My enV Touch has been dropped on pretty much any surface imaginable. No damage at all, except for some scratches.
[QUOTE=ExTek;23069199][b]THIS JUST IN; GLASS BREAKS WHEN DROPPED! [i]Full story at 11.[/i][/b][/QUOTE]
Well shit sir thanks for saying the exact same thing I said.
The phone is made of glass, glass breaks, phone was designed to be pretty rather than durable, end of.
Oh my god. Shutup.
Do you even [b]OWN[/b] one?
You complain like my little brother. :bravo2:
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