I am 1 of those people who do both.
A waste of $1k. Should have stuck to a $50 Android if I just wanted to learn it. I can easily unload it for $50 2-4 years later.
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A waste of $1k. Should have stuck to a $50 Android if I just wanted to learn it. I can easily unload it for $50 2-4 years later.
Lots of Apple fanboys in the comments.
I have owned iPhones since the very first generation. The fact is iPhones got LESS durable with every new release. The very first iPhone had a metal case, was built like a tank. The 3Gs which I also owned had a plastic case, it looked great and also withstood some drops on concrete.
Every thing that followed sacrificed aesthetics for durability. With every new release we have to waste time and money to buy a piece of ugly plastic (remember the bumper?) to protect the “great new design”.
I have owned iPhones since the very first generation. The fact is iPhones got LESS durable with every new release. The very first iPhone had a metal case, was built like a tank. The 3Gs which I also owned had a plastic case, it looked great and also withstood some drops on concrete.
Every thing that followed sacrificed aesthetics for durability. With every new release we have to waste time and money to buy a piece of ugly plastic (remember the bumper?) to protect the “great new design”.
But that wouldn’t generate the same number of clicks and comments.
I don't think it says that at all. Glass is glass. It doesn't appear to be any more or less fragile than before. Certainly one can't make that conclusion based on one drop test.
The whole idea that Apple is just using glass for aesthetics is ridiculous, sorry. Have you not considered the many other internal components that simply wouldn't work as well if the entire back or metal rather than glass? Plastic also poses problems as well, not to mention it just feels cheap and not premium.
My son was one of those people who doesn't like a case. When he bought an iPhone 12, he also bought a case but chose form above function. Got his phone damaged at work, broke the display. As the model was new then, I sent it for repair and turned out the frame was also damaged and they had to replace it. As my Insurance company was a good one, it only cost me around 22USD for the new one. Bought a better case for him right away and his phone is still in good condition after 2,5 years.
I see a lot of so called "influencers" says that they prefer to use phone without a case despite they all do ads about cases. But in reality I see hardly anyone without a case and that too with a non-damaged display-glass. Influencers can get free phones but if you want to protect a device which you bought with your hard-earned money, put a case and a screen protector on it.
I see a lot of so called "influencers" says that they prefer to use phone without a case despite they all do ads about cases. But in reality I see hardly anyone without a case and that too with a non-damaged display-glass. Influencers can get free phones but if you want to protect a device which you bought with your hard-earned money, put a case and a screen protector on it.
They had this crazy stuff called plastic, back before you were born… back when marketing hadn’t turned stupid phones into jewelry fashion statements… but yeah, the plastic stuff was anti-concrete. Sadly, like the Rocketdyne F1 moon engine, the technology to make plastic has been lost, and the designers have all retired or died. The real miracle of plastic back then, was it allowed wireless charging too!
The guy who went to Australia to drop test on first day sounds so dumb.
Making premium phones out of glass is an ode to planned obsolescence. Symbolic and also poetic.
Well, windshields are made out of glass because we need to see through. interestingly, airplane windows (made of acrylic glass, weakening the whole structure) are not here for the view but because we'd stress in full closed environment. What I like here is the idea of a glass phone as a symbol of ephemeral luxury.
edit: if not (crystal) clear, we're talking about glass backs, not screens (e.g. sapphire is for small screens). They are needed for wireless charging (metal not suitable), and also made by Corning (Gorilla). While breakable, they feel more premium (without a case) than plastic which absorbs shock energy. As said in previous posts, they are calibrated to resist 20+ falls from 1 meter high (table height), but don't fare so well with the 2 meter test involving x4 energy. Also, in some ads Apple was very cautious to show phones falling on dirt rather than concrete. They're not built to resist several 1.7 meter falls, tho cases may help. Sorry for non-US units
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Phone slipped from my hand one time, went a bit up into the air, and then down. That was about 5'
They actually have glass, just micro-thin and flexible. They also come with a screen protector on top of that glass.They really said surprisingly the folding phones main screens survived with minor damage? Of course it didn't shatter it's not glass like rest of their body and other phones.
How's the grip on those? My biggest complaint about these all glass phones it they are WAY too slippery. It's downright hard for me to hold them without a grippy type case.
I like to take my iPhone swimming with me on holiday for underwater shots.
Not to them, they are marketing an insurance product.