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15 April 2012, 04:28 PM
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Stroke of Luck!
Yesterday I was driving back to Edinburgh from the north and we pulled off at the restroom just before you cross the Kessock bridge at Inverness.
I parked on the slope outside the John, jumped in, did my business, and dived back in the car to resume the journey. About a mile down the road I go to look for my phone - iphone 4gs 3 months old - only to quickly learn that it's not in the car. By the time we get back to the toilets a full 10 minutes has passed and, as we pull up, I can see the phone on the tarmac where the car had been parked. It is right in the middle of the road and I can already see a very clear tyre track over the leather case.
As I pick it up, I'm beyond gutted as the only other car around was a 4x4 soft-roader thingy, so chances are it's had circa 400kg rolling over it. I open my case (this one) and amazingly the screen doesn't have a mark!! I full remove it and there isn't a single scratch or sign of trouble. The case is, of course, a right-off but the phone is perfectly fine.
No real point to my story - just thought I'd tell it. TBH, I'm amazed that it took that much weight rolling over it without breaking. Go apple!
I parked on the slope outside the John, jumped in, did my business, and dived back in the car to resume the journey. About a mile down the road I go to look for my phone - iphone 4gs 3 months old - only to quickly learn that it's not in the car. By the time we get back to the toilets a full 10 minutes has passed and, as we pull up, I can see the phone on the tarmac where the car had been parked. It is right in the middle of the road and I can already see a very clear tyre track over the leather case.
As I pick it up, I'm beyond gutted as the only other car around was a 4x4 soft-roader thingy, so chances are it's had circa 400kg rolling over it. I open my case (this one) and amazingly the screen doesn't have a mark!! I full remove it and there isn't a single scratch or sign of trouble. The case is, of course, a right-off but the phone is perfectly fine.
No real point to my story - just thought I'd tell it. TBH, I'm amazed that it took that much weight rolling over it without breaking. Go apple!
15 April 2012, 06:27 PM
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Good job I read all of that!
I thought you were going to say that it was lucky that you got pulled off at a restroom.8-)
I thought you were going to say that it was lucky that you got pulled off at a restroom.8-)
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15 April 2012, 09:02 PM
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I dropped my blackberry out of the car window while on the motorway - by the time got to the next junction and doubled back on the opposing carriageway, I arrived just in time to see my phone getting hit my a Volvo travelling in lane three. The Volvo was ******* wrecked, but there was not a scratch on my blackberry.
Yaay RIM!!! well built device if ever I saw one.
Yaay RIM!!! well built device if ever I saw one.
15 April 2012, 11:39 PM
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15 April 2012, 11:41 PM
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Also, while I think the case helped it's the phone itself I am impressed with. Make no mistake, it would have been under immense pressure - albeit evenly distributed. To be fair, it was just pot luck and it would probably break 99/100 if I tried it again!
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16 April 2012, 11:09 PM
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You were lucky, as pretty much everyone I know has broken an iPhone, most especially the 4.
They seem amazingly easy to break, there are three girls all within 20ft of my desk that all have broken cover glass on iPhone 4's and can't either be bothered or afford to fix them, all have done it more than once, hence the can't be bothered attidude.... Lol as they know they will break them again.
Think most of them were broken by sliding of their laps onto floor, a distance of what 3 ft max....?
They seem amazingly easy to break, there are three girls all within 20ft of my desk that all have broken cover glass on iPhone 4's and can't either be bothered or afford to fix them, all have done it more than once, hence the can't be bothered attidude.... Lol as they know they will break them again.
Think most of them were broken by sliding of their laps onto floor, a distance of what 3 ft max....?
17 April 2012, 07:45 AM
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That's how my wife broke hers. I agree that they are notoriously fragile, which is why I was amazed mines survived. I guess it shows that they are built well enough to withstand evenly distributed crushing forces. However, it's shock forces that seem to kill them.
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