iPhone 4 "Gorilla Glass" Cracked Already!

What bumper is that?

dertbv said:

What bumper is that?

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It's a black Apple bumper.


So your phone just cracked on it's own? That's hard to believe.

dertbv said:

What bumper is that?

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That s the black bumper by apple...

Most likely slid off the table or desk or whatever, or got knocked off while the OP was sleeping (sleepwalker? iPhone destroyer?), no idea.

Not the first report of such an instance: "I went to bed with the phone on the dresser/table/night stand next to my bed, woke up and found it on the floor" etc.

And I doubt it'll be the last, either.

An exposed glass edge was the worst idea ever.

Can we have some pictures?

woofermazing said:

An exposed glass edge was the worst idea ever.

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The edge of the glass isn't exposed. It's surrounded by about 1mm of black plastic.

Your house must be haunted.

ridiculous said:

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just start protecting your phone, preferably NOT with an Apple bumper.

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Indeed. Although this "Gorilla glass" is supposedly of the same type used in helicopters and high-speed trains, it's rather brittle. Cell phones potentially take a lot of abuse & so for one that is sandwiched between two pieces of crack-prone glass, it's essential to get a good case!

I'm waiting for the Defender from Otterbox. In the interim I'm using the Belkin Grip Vue which is only a slight improvement over Apple's 29$ rubber band.

I'm still waiting for someone to do this with an iPhone 4:

http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/29/dell-streaks-gorilla-glass-screen-torture-tested-for-your-amus/

Any takers?

And make note: the 5" display on the Dell Streak - because of it's size - is more susceptible to breaking because of this type of demo since it has a far larger surface area. The smaller screen size of the iPhone 4 should be stronger... of course this is full on bashing to death of the display but, even so.

I honestly believe that if I whipped out a Bic pen and did this test on the iPhone 4 I've got sitting here it would shatter on the first impact... I honestly do believe that.

It's interesting how everyone is calling the glass "Gorilla glass" when Apple never stated what type or who made it.

Has it been confirmed by anyone that the glass is actually "Gorilla glass" or are people just going to keep using that term because it sounds good?

Your screen cracked with a bumper on it while sitting inside your bedside table? That's incredibly hard to believe, but Apple is being really easy with courtesy exchanges. My sister dropped her phone on the 4th from her lap onto an asphalt driveway and her screen got smashed, I brought it to the Apple Store and they replaced it no questions asked.

I can believe it. My Macbook Pro's glass did that a little over a year ago. Woke up one morning and had a crack similiar to that in the glass of my MBP.

ridiculous said:

http://gallery.me.com/ashley.warren#100011

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OP, you might want to remove the GPS information from those photos unless you don't care if people know where you live...

AbSoluTc said:

It's interesting how everyone is calling the glass "Gorilla glass" when Apple never stated what type or who made it.

Has it been confirmed by anyone that the glass is actually "Gorilla glass" or are people just going to keep using that term because it sounds good?

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People are just calling it that to give their units something positive in lieu of the negative press regarding the hardware build of the phone. Fact is, it's NOT gorilla glass -- otherwise Apple would have said it was. It's a cheap knockoff that breaks easily.

Apple could venture into the dessert business and sell a cannoli made out of poop, and people would say they reinvented it and made it better. Ah well, Just how most Apple consumers function.

Disgusting.

Gorilla glass - LOL!

rookie1082 said:

People are just calling it that to give their units something positive in lieu of the negative press regarding the hardware build of the phone. Fact is, it's NOT gorilla glass -- otherwise Apple would have said it was. It's a cheap knockoff that breaks easily.

Apple could venture into the dessert business and sell a cannoli made out of poop, and people would say they reinvented it and made it better. Ah well, Just how most Apple consumers function.

Disgusting.

Gorilla glass - LOL!

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I know. It needs to stop as the glass is NOT "gorilla glass". Same with the "death grip" reception issue. There is nothing "death grip" about it. Whoever is coining these phrases needs to be fired.

I guess they should have spent the extra couple of dollars and put in reL gorrilla glass.

My biggest gripe about the glass is:

Why the hell did they even say "30x stronger than plastic"? Who cares about plastic?

Would have made some sense to say "it's 30% more resistant to scratching than the glass on the iPhone 3GS" or something of a similar manner, but plastic?

Who writes this stuff for Apple?

br0adband said:

My biggest gripe about the glass is:

Why the hell did they even say "30x stronger than plastic"? Who cares about plastic?

Would have made some sense to say "it's 30% more resistant to scratching than the glass on the iPhone 3GS" or something of a similar manner, but plastic?

Who writes this stuff for Apple?

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Marketing people write it to create awe and generate hype

AbSoluTc said:

I know...Same with the "death grip" reception issue. There is nothing "death grip" about it. Whoever is coining these phrases needs to be fired.

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Well, your signal does die.

Maybe it should be called grip of death, which sounds like a cool martial arts move. Or for us dorks, Vulcan nerve pinch.