iPhone 4 fails 'drop test' miserably

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#63434 26-Jun-2010 18:24

Oh no... Not looking good.

Doesnt work if you're holding it, and if you drop it it dies too

Ham

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#345577 26-Jun-2010 18:47

That is hard to watch

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#345578 26-Jun-2010 18:47

was it designed to be dropped?

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#345581 26-Jun-2010 18:52

johnr: was it designed to be dropped?

+1. Any phone would break if dropped so many times.

Do whatever you want to do man.

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#345584 26-Jun-2010 19:15

I'm sure it's not designed to be dropped BUT "it must be durable" (if sold in NZ anyway)

I guess it depends on what you define as "durable"

Either way, I'm sure Apple won't have a problem with sales!

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#345585 26-Jun-2010 19:19

The thing is made of glass.. of course it wouldn't fricken stand being dropped so often. :)

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#345586 26-Jun-2010 19:23

But apparently a very strong glass.

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#345589 26-Jun-2010 19:31

The iPhones were never tough enough to drop. I can't tell you the number of broken LCDs and glass panels that have come my way. I think that's just the price to pay for a large display. Saying that, I thought the iPhone 4 glass was meant to be gorilla glass. Guess it's no tougher than the regular glass.

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#345606 26-Jun-2010 20:43

It's all very well to make the glass really strong, but that won't protect the internals from damage.

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#345647 27-Jun-2010 00:37

Ham: I'm sure it's not designed to be dropped BUT "it must be durable" (if sold in NZ anyway)

I guess it depends on what you define as "durable"

Either way, I'm sure Apple won't have a problem with sales!

Dropping your phone is considered an accident, and has nothing to do with durability. An accident is covered by insurance. I am sure a netbook would be in worse condition with just a single drop/

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#345667 27-Jun-2010 07:21

Not sure I would call that a miserable failure, might improve once they fit the "reception buffers to the phone"

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#345717 27-Jun-2010 11:13

http://gizmodo.com/5572227/fuuuuuu-gizmodos-first-accidentally-dropped-iphone

This is a bit worse, one drop as opposed to three, hopefully they'll fix it up in the next gen release. Apparently making it more scratch resistant has made is less durable to side on knocks :S so as long as you drop it flat and not on a corner it should be fine

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#345741 27-Jun-2010 12:59

Ham: That is hard to watch

Yeah, got to agree, kills a perfectly good iPhone4 to promote his business, and we haven't even got them here yet! (I am not an iPhone fan either)

Good ad for some sort of protective cover for your shiny new toy though.

Most of these type of products would pass standardised drop testing. I remember seeing a program on Discovery about Nokia doing just that.

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#345747 27-Jun-2010 13:19

billgates:
johnr: was it designed to be dropped?

+1. Any phone would break if dropped so many times.

Nonsense

I've dropped my Samsung Omnia HD more than that on concrete, hard wood, lino, etc, left it on the back of car and driven off and its fallen on the road and there's nothing wrong witb it, a couple of tiny scratches. Ive had older nokias and things that have fallen more than one storey on to driveways and been OK

Most phones would last longer than that.

Ok so maybe its not "miserable" but thats a poor showing IMO

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#345778 27-Jun-2010 15:02

Dingbatt:
Ham: That is hard to watch

Yeah, got to agree, kills a perfectly good iPhone4 to promote his business, and we haven't even got them here yet! (I am not an iPhone fan either)

Good ad for some sort of protective cover for your shiny new toy though.

Most of these type of products would pass standardised drop testing. I remember seeing a program on Discovery about Nokia doing just that.

It's called waste. I am sure apple aren't happy to see people doing that sort of thing to their devices either. I would have thought they would ahve to remove the apple logos at least.