iPhone 4 survives 1,000' fall from plane

[rpadula]

This is aviation-related, right?

http://www.tuaw.com/2011/03/23/iphone-4-survives-1-000-foot-fall-from-airplane/

 

[Teller1900]

He'll just have to try harder next time!

I am curious about this bit:

but no special aerodynamic protection. (It wasn't even this Griffin case, which is designed to meet military standards.)

1. Aerodynamic protection? Que?
2. There's actually a MilSpec for throwing a phone out of an airplane? (The link they included says it's only certified up to 6'. Not much free fall time there.)

 

[flyingcheesehead]

Musta landed on something soft. After many drops, I finally busted a screen in December. And that was on my 3Gs, not the glass-on-both-sides iPhone 4!

 

[PittsDriver]

I dropped my 4 twice yesterday on the kitchen tile floor - hard enough to make me wince when I picked it up. Not a scratch on it.

 

[JesseD]

I dropped my 4 twice yesterday on the kitchen tile floor - hard enough to make me wince when I picked it up. Not a scratch on it.

Remember those cheap Corelware? plates? You can drop / hit them accidentally dozens of times, unless it hits jjjjust right. Then, of course, it shatters into a million tiny shards.

 

[PittsDriver]

Remember those cheap Corelware? plates? You can drop / hit them accidentally dozens of times, unless it hits jjjjust right. Then, of course, it shatters into a million tiny shards.

I would have thought that iPhones were more like toast though - always falls in the most disadvantageous orientation.

 

[steingar]

Did it land on its iFeet?

 

[OffCenter]

Remember those cheap Corelware? plates? You can drop / hit them accidentally dozens of times, unless it hits jjjjust right. Then, of course, it shatters into a million tiny shards.

In all the years I've had those plates I've only managed to break ONE, and nobody was more surprised than me when it smashed. Those things generally bounce like rubber balls.

 

[tonycondon]

amazing thing is that it apparently had a signal in a wooded area. maybe it was a Verizon iPhone

 

[Telemakhos]

Obviously the owner had installed the Self-Deploying Parachute App.
Thank goodness for that App. Now the owner has resumed wearing skinny jeans, pontificating on the subject of sweet indie bands, and generally being ironically cool.
I love stories with happy iEndings.

 

[gismo]

Obviously the owner had installed the Self-Deploying Parachute App.
Thank goodness for that App. Now the owner has resumed wearing skinny jeans, pontificating on the subject of sweet indie bands, and generally being ironically cool.
I love stories with happy iEndings.

Do you suppose the iPhone5 will come with landing thrusters?

 

[Trapper John]

Do you suppose the iPhone5 will come with landing thrusters?

Flubber!

 

[JesseD]

In all the years I've had those plates I've only managed to break ONE, and nobody was more surprised than me when it smashed. Those things generally bounce like rubber balls.

I've broken a couple as a kid. We don't use then anymore, so I gave them to my brother. We have pets and I'm a bit paranoid about one breaking and the pups getting slivers from them.

 

[Telemakhos]

Do you suppose the iPhone5 will come with landing thrusters?

iPhone 5 will come with a preloaded list of trendy bars that ironically serve PBR, an App that tells the user whether or not a certain music group is too commercial for the user to admit following, and a continuously displayed countdown clock programmed to hit zero when the next iPhone is released-- making the iPhone 5 passe.
Landing thrusters are optional, and reduce the battery life by half.