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Glass-Bodied iPhone 8 Shatters Repeatedly in Drop Tests

The most durable glass on an iPhone, yet older iPhones have fared better than the iPhone 8 / 8 Plus because they didn't have the glass backing (apart from the iPhone 4/4S).

Either way, they made it out of glass, it's asking to be broken - that's the nature of glass!
 
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Cameroncafe10a said:
ShatterGate
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Marketing term.... So i guess the only reason to do drop tests is "we can" not to prove anything really since the iPhone 8 *is made of glass* body..

I mean, in a drop test what exactly do we think was gonna happen,, it would rebound? I'll give 'em guts to "test" the obvious.
 
Next in the news: anything made out of glass will break if you throw it at the ground hard enough.

After that: Fake News. Is it really News?
 
redman042 said:
Who cares, really? I ALWAYS keep my phone in a case. The Apple leather one fits perfectly, looks great, and has saved my phone from ANY damage after about half a dozen drops onto concrete since I got the phone a year ago (and I'm careful with my devices, but s**t happens).

Yeah, carrying the phone "naked" may look and feel nice but the average person WILL break it at some point. It's inevitable. Just get a case and your phone will probably be fine.
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err...just logged in after a prolonged absence to let you know:

My phone is an utility. I carry it with me 24/7. As a matter of fact my precious MS/Nokia Lumia 930 was dropped an uncountable amount of times. I don't use a case.

These are accidents. They happen.

I have a completely dented frame. In fact the polycarbonate back doesn't fit perfect anymore and has several breaks on the corner.

My display glass has several really bad scratching marks from keys and sand in my pocket, but never in the entire lifespan of my phone did I experience a broken display.

Now the rhethorical question: Does MS/Nokia use superior glass or is the iPhone design really flawed?

I vote for the latter which is why I still haven't bought an iPhone since the 3GS.
 
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Even with a case, I think the iPhone 8 or X will shatter from a small drop just from the shock. A step backward moving to glass in my opinion. Would have preferred a proprietary wireless charger that worked with pins on an aluminum case rather than a phone that shatters.
 
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But the glass iPhone 8 is much less likely to be dropped in the first place than the slippery aluminium iPhone 7s.
 
The fact that the Samsung phone was rendered unusable while the iPhone functioned normally should make everyone raise an eyebrow. These tests are not scientific and certainly biased towards Apple. Samsung's industrial design is legendary in consumer products so these results make very little sense.
 
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rishiomedia said:
Even with a case, I think the iPhone 8 or X will shatter from a small drop just from the shock. A step backward moving to glass in my opinion. Would have preferred a proprietary wireless charger that worked with pins on an aluminum case rather than a phone that shatters.
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any protection is "some" protection. No mater the outcome.
 
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