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Luck of the draw, I think

Luck has a lot to do with it, yeah. It all depends on the angle it hits at and what it hits. (Having a protective case on the phone helps too.) Some phones have more durable screens than others, too.

My phone is 3 years old. B] Hasn't a single crack, and I dropped that sucker off high places and more hard surfaces than my mom's stinkin' iPhone. -U- I pride myself in having a good shock-resistant phone cover and screen protector so that such things don't occur. My mom just picked a case that was close to her favorite color. :/ Her phone hasn't cracked yet, but the last time it cracked, she had to take it in for a $300 dollar repair. >-> She never wants to crack it again, so now she's careful of where she leaves her phone at all times. >w> heheh.

I think my protective screen cracked on my phone. It's not as obvious to see the crack until you look at my phone at a certain angle.
I just hope the actual screen didn't crack as well, and I'm afraid to find that out.

i have a galaxy s5, dropped it on concrete once. the screen doesn't have any cracks on it, but it's been a bit glitchy ever since.

i'm either going to need to get it repaired or get a new phone and keep the galaxy s5 as a backup.

i've had the same phone type since the 00's and just rebuy refurbs on ebay when it is time for a new one(every 3-4 years as they are 2nd hand already)
i never break the screen even though i have put the occasional gouge in it

i think the above statements of luck and varying durability are on point

I once let my phone slip out of my pocket. Tried to switch songs but fumbled. The fall was short, but it landed on the corner onto a concrete walkway. Done. Shattered. Poof. This was after I had dropped the same phone out of a second story window onto a bush.
Probably the amount of times you drop your phones also counts toward the angle of the landing. My nokia phone broke after repeatedly being tossed, and that this is a wee brick.

That's about what happened to the back glass of my current phone. Pulled it out of my pocket on a really dry day and my skin was too dry to grip the glass. It didn't fall very far and I even partially managed to slow its fall by catching it on my leg so it slid down instead of falling, but it caught the ground just right to make a big crack.

newer phones aren't made to last. that's part of the problem in things.

I mean there's really not a whole lot of point in BUILDING them to last. Most people are going to replace the phone in three years no matter what condition it's in, just because of software performance and new features.

Ive never ever cracked a phone screen EVER.
I think it's because of the elaborate cases I usually use.

The one time my phone screen cracked was when I was using a faulty case (silicone and my bunny ripped it apart) and my mom was using my phone because of my rewards app for our favorite juice bar and it slipped out of the case and hit the ground at just the right angle to not only crack my screen, but also bend the top of it backwards.

I took it to be repaired that day but they said they couldn't fix it. I was given a new phone with more data, I think. But it sucked ass.

I still had a iphone SE and the Apple store thankfully had one last extra one in back that I could be given.
Now I bought three new cases. Again, elaborate ones. Two are silicone and one is literally just a teddy bear with a hole in it to fit a phone. So if anyone drops my teddy bear phone, it'll probably just bounce.

if it's not broken, don't fix it. i think i've had my phone for quite some time.

My phone (previous to the break) lasted a good three years.
I'm not ever replacing it.

I like the new iPhones but I don't think I want one...

there's this planned obsolescence bullshite, which is utterly stupid in general, y'know?

It's not so much planned obsolescence in this case as expected obsolescence. They're not TRYING to make it fail after a certain amount of time.

gestures to the fact that apple and android / google / whatever the fuck is behind the fucking android phones purposefully slow down the phones after a year or so.

My last phone I had for about a week and put it in my back pocket and when I pulled it out there was like a hairline fracture along the corners. It looked like this:

https://i.imgur.com/zyunpMN.png

I walked around with the phone like that for a year. Then I full on dropped the phone and it landed facedown. Which is a horrific moment. Like you know it might be fucked but you also know maybe it's not. It's schrodinger's phone, both fucked and not fucked until you flip it over and observe it. It was completely shattered. Like so shattered it wasn't usable. You can use a phone with some cracks on the screen but if I used this phone the glass would have messed up my fingers. It was a MESS.

Other than that phone I never had a broken screen. I had my iphone 4 for like five years and when I dropped that one and it died the screen was fine, it just legit died when I dropped it.

Ooo, Claire Bear!
I love your avi :)

Also,
I hate it when phones just shatter.
I dropped my phone in the toilet once and I panicked and had it replaced... But I should have kept it because once it dried out, it actually worked pretty well. And when you get a phone replaced, they give you a re-purposed phone. So basically, it was a phone someone else returned for whatever reason.

That was the sh*ttiest phone I've ever had.
I dropped it once.. ONCE and the screen turned black and I couldn't use it anymore. >:T

Apple is the only one I know of to do that intentionally, and it's not based on time, it's based on battery condition; they lower the power consumption of the phone in order to make it last longer on a charge. Replace the battery and it speeds back up. (As long as you get it replaced by an authorized Apple service center, because Apple does give a big middle finger to third-party service because it won't trust a replacement battery unless it's given an Apple seal of approval.)

Mom did this once, a few phones ago. Other than it randomly maxing volume out for a while, it worked fine until it finally gave up the ghost. It was six or seven years old by them, which us old for a smartphone. Droid Ultra
And then when her next phone's battery suddenly refused to hold a charge she had to think to remember if it was that one or the previous. Note 5
Then the replacement phone did the same thing with the battery, but took less time to get to it. Also Note 5
Now she's on an A50 that she got while at Vegas
No broken screens tho

My first phone was a Nokia flip phone that would regularly yeet itself out of my pocket onto concrete and continue working (STG I probably could've run over it and it would've still worked). My first smartphone was an iPhone 5, and that fucker lived in its case. when it came time for me to upgrade, the phone service worker was impressed by how pristine it was for an almost three year old phone. My current phone is a Samsung Galaxy S7, and like my iPhone, it lives in its case. it has fallen a few times, but it has not broken, and has never had a screen crack. my case is silicone and a flip-over outer shell.

Well yeah, Nokias of that era were famous for their durability. The Nokia 3310 could survive being rolled over by a car.

Did they test that? And if so, is there video footage of it?

I think my first phone was the Nokia Kajeet, as a beta tester
Got a lot of stickers, dog tags, etc, themed to Kajeet characters. Came in a colorful box too
A different phone kept turning off after getting a text message so we went to get it checked and turns out I needed to replace it cuz all the pins for charging were bent, broken, or missing. Charged fine, but okay
My first smartphone, a droid maxx, got a virus from the chrome app, of all things. Kept forcing it to shut down cuz it kept bringing up a popup that would immediately replace itself if you closed it out
Good times, switched to firefox and got a couple more years out of it. Had to spend another week with the popups, but their frequency took a steep dive over that week so they weren't consistent

I've dropped my phone dozens of times and my screen is perfectly fine.

Yet I see people with phones that have shattered or cracked screens. Like wtf did you do, throw it down on the concrete???

I don't know if Nokia did, but tons of fans did.

First good example I found: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnk1UYBblq0

i think i dropped my galaxy s5 phone on concrete once. other than a few dents, it works fine.

the screen has started to glitch, though, which makes me think there's a mild disconnect in the wires, that i'll probably have to get sorted out sooner or later, but i can't trust anyone well enough to do it because it has my data on there.

Backups, man. Don't put it off until it's too late.

Thank you!
Looks like an awesome sturdy all purpose phone ^^ mine is pretty durable as well, but I wouldn't trust it to survive a car like that.

My sister's first smartphone was a BlackBerry, to tell you how long ago this was
She was a paramedic at the time
That phone took a lot of abuse, and it was being driven over that finally broke it

Mine was a flip phone. I spent entire weekends programming ringtones note by note, after figuring out how to get sheet music converted, including octave changes, flats, and sharps. Good times.

Oh heck yeah! Same here! I actually got really fancy with one ring tone and arpeggiated it so it would sound like it had two-note harmony.

My friend's phone back then could do that. Mine was a huge old thing which only gave five or so premade ringtone options with no way to create your own. I remember I was secretly jealous, because having a custom ringtone sounded way cooler than being able to call your parents. (I saw my friends in the afternoon, so seldom ever a need to call them instead)

I wish I could do that with my phone now.