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So that one survives a thousand foot drop but some shatter from a 4 foot drop? Luck of the draw I guess. I've dropped mine a few times and been lucky.
By Gary Ng on March 23rd, 2011 9
Here’s a pretty cool story. TUAW received an email from a US Air Force Combat Controller eager to share his exciting story about his iPhone 4 that fell out on the job.
As Ron Walker was checking for landmarks to prepare parachute jumpers up at 1000 feet, his iPhone 4 fell out of his pocket as the Velcro seal flew open. Ouch. The plane was traveling at 150 MPH (240 KMH!). Mr. Walker obviously assumed his precious iPhone 4 was gone forever and possibly destroyed from the fall, right? Wrong. Turns out one of his colleagues installed Find my iPhone on his phone!
Once on the ground, Mr. Walker and his colleague jumped onto ATVs and found his iPhone 4 in the woods 2 miles away. Surprisingly, it was still in perfect working condition, as Mr. Walker described, “not a scratch on it, not even dirty.” The phone was inside a Griffin Motif case, but that was about it.
Cool story. Not a lot of things survive a 1000 foot drop from a plane, let alone a phone. The moral of this story is that we should all super glue our iPhones to our hands (some of you already have done this). That way, it won’t be going anywhere.
Have you ever experienced a similar freak situation, only to have Find my iPhone bail you out?
So that one survives a thousand foot drop but some shatter from a 4 foot drop? Luck of the draw I guess. I've dropped mine a few times and been lucky.
If I was the maker of that case I'd be all over this.
My wife ran over a nokia candybar style phone that I had a few years ago with a truck on accident and it had no case on it. I was so excited because I had been looking for a reason to get a new phone. Then I put the thing back together and it worked perfectly... dang.
Your mistake was attempting (and subsequently succeeding) to put it back together.
Chicken Dinner!
My first couple of cell phones were nokias and they were tanks. I'm pretty careful with all my stuff but there was no way I was going to break those things even if I tried. My last nokia was very rinky dink but I think that's when all cell phones got less durable with all the new innovations.
Did they get all of the mud out of it?
It has to do with physics. by 1000 ft, the horizontal speed would match the wind. The trees and dirt probably broke the fall substantially. The ones that break at 4 ft? Probably hit concrete.
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