> I am amazed at how well modern phones withstand falls, e.g. continuing to work after being dropped 6 feet and landing on one corner on a tile floor.
wait that's 1.80 metres, right? if you drop 10 modern smartphones from that height, making sure they hit with the corner on a stone tile floor outside, I'd be very surprised if more than one of them would show no more damage than a scratch or a dent in the side.
I've seen displays shattered dropped ~30 cm by sliding from an armchair, hitting merely the side and back on stone tiles (certainly the corners are most vulnerable, no?).
My phone has actually survived worse, but having witnessed the brittleness of other people's phones, I think I'm just oddly lucky.
I dunno what people are doing to their phones. As a pretty clumsy person who generally hasn't used a case, the most that has ever happened (across 4 Android flagships, an N900, an iPhone 6 and now an iPhone 8) when I dropped a phone is scratching and dinging. The G1, N900, and Galaxy S2 would often disassemble themselves upon dropping, but never damaged a screen or reduced any functionality. This includes many drops (clumsy, see above) for each of those (except the iPhone 8), from heights between 0.5m and 1.5m, onto carpet, wood, tile, concrete and asphalt.
I don't see many cracked screens when I'm out, but when I do, it's always in a case. I've wondered if some of these cases actually exacerbate the problem.
wait that's 1.80 metres, right? if you drop 10 modern smartphones from that height, making sure they hit with the corner on a stone tile floor outside, I'd be very surprised if more than one of them would show no more damage than a scratch or a dent in the side.
I've seen displays shattered dropped ~30 cm by sliding from an armchair, hitting merely the side and back on stone tiles (certainly the corners are most vulnerable, no?).
My phone has actually survived worse, but having witnessed the brittleness of other people's phones, I think I'm just oddly lucky.