iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus Get Cracked in First Drop Test

Dionte said:
I need to go get a case today before it gets here tomorrow. I might get apple care too
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Some credit cards (e.g., Wells Fargo) provide free insurance for your phone if used to pay your phone bills.

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AFDoc said:
That's the thing sure, there is that vocal minority that does want it more robust but most here on MR, from what I've seen want it thin.
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If you value ruggedness over aesthetic design, an iPhone is not for you. What's next, Porsche owners demand more cargo space?
 
simonmet said:
I take it you're not a physicist!
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I'm sure that instead of giving a nonsensical reply you will tell me exactly what was wrong in my post. I'm waiting. Meanwhile, I'm quite confident that I've forgotten more about physics than you will ever learn.
 
ho ho what a surprise, dropping a smartphone on the floor makes it break, what a genius :rolleyes:


btw the guy has a terrible accent :eek:
 
CFreymarc said:
My take is Apple had honest intention about the sapphire but even Apple must obey the Yield Laws keeping your margins up.

My take is they have not perfected the refinement technique (probably down to the milli-pascal and tenth of a degree) to get sapphire on shipping units.

The small screen of the Apple Watch, the yields can be much better on such a smaller screen.
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I do not disagree, your point is valid. However it's the so called "leaks" that were so frequent and substantial that for all intents and purposes were designed to garner attention, continued unabated well after Apple most certainly knew that Sapphire would not be used on iPhone's.
 
As someone teetering on the edge of buying an iPhone 6 this doesn't fill me with confidence! I've dropped my 4S onto concrete three times now and it only has a scuff on the corner. Maybe it's best to wait for a revision on the 6 design.
 
The iPhone 5 was one of the best designs for durability when dropped. I've dropped my phone at least 50 times and the screen only stopped working once. it never cracked. I think the curved edges are the problem with this phone.
 
selfsilent said:
Another person (and 5 followers), who doesn't understand sapphire.
Sapphire is HARDER than glass, therefore it is more rigid and therefore it'll be more likely to break when dropped.
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You know this? I don't believe it. Any proof? I think the much harder and denser (1.6 x denser) sapphire while less flexible is likely to be more resistant to shattering. I think it would take a much greater force to chip and crack than Corning's Gorilla glass though we won't know for certain until someone can make and test a phone with a sapphire screen to prove it.

I don't know where this rumour came that the more flexible Gorilla glass is more resistant to shattering when used in a phone but I suspect it's not objective or authoritative and is instead marketing from Corning or an unfounded excuse to defend Apple's failure to adopt sapphire.

I don't know if you've broken crystal glasses but they tend not to shatter. They can chip and crack/break but not as easily as poorer glass which is also much more prone to the kind of shatter evident in these drop tests. Sapphire is an order of hardness even better than crystal glass.

Of course, this depends partly on the thickness of glass/sapphire used. Due to its higher strength and density, Apple would almost certainly use it as an excuse to make the display glass thinner (since they're so stupidly obsessed with thinness and weight as a measure of success) and this may nullify any advantage in moving to harder sapphire.

In the end I think Apple wants the screens to be weak.
 
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Aple care + for iphones doesnt exist in Norway, sadly . Dropping the phone making hte screen crack, is understandable. The fact that the screen and bezel cracks/release from eachother is more worrysome imo. If that happens so easily, I would assume over time people will experience this from smaller drops and just regular use.
 
NachoGrande said:
The iPhone 5 was one of the best designs for durability when dropped. I've dropped my phone at least 50 times and the screen only stopped working once. it never cracked. I think the curved edges are the problem with this phone.
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I also dropped my iPhone 5 many times... concrete, asphalt, etc. It doesn't even have any scratches on it (I have a case with a slight front lip). Guess I'll have to be a bit more careful with my 6.
 
iMcLovin said:
Aple care + for iphones doesnt exist in Norway, sadly . Dropping the phone making hte screen crack, is understandable. The fact that the screen and bezel cracks/release from eachother is more worrysome imo. If that happens so easily, I would assume over time people will experience this from smaller drops and just regular use.
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It is very worrysome indeed. I am hoping the separation is a sign that the screen will be very easily replaceable if broken.
 
Why doesn't Apple make the phone more durable? How come that's not an important aspect of the design process? Sure, make the screen bigger, sure, make the battery better, but why not make it more durable?
 
simonmet said:
You know this? I don't believe it. Any proof? I think the much harder and denser (1.6 x denser) sapphire while less flexible is likely to be more resistant to shattering. I think it would take a much greater force to chip and crack than Corning's Gorilla glass though we won't know for certain until someone can make and test a phone with a sapphire screen to prove it.
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Proof? pretty much everyone with some knowledge in glass has come out and said this when rumors started flying about Apple switching to Sapphire. And, its pretty obvious really....Thin plates of such a hard material, will crack. But its much more scrape resistant, I would assume almost impossible to get a scrape. So pros and cons.
 
powerstrokin said:
Perhaps people should be more careful with expensive things.

As another poster in another thread said the other day about how he's never used a case on any phone and they always look like new- How often do you drop your sandwich? Your banana?

Read it aloud, folks-

SITUATIONAL AWARENESS!
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Same with me... My 2G went nude, so did my 4S... Can't wait for my 6... :D

Although I might have dropped them a couple of times over the last 7 years, thankfully 0 damage... People still think my 4S is just 6-8 months old and not 3 whole years... :p

If you buy a $1000 phone you better be very careful with it...
 
leventozler said:
I believe this curved and exposed design was meant for sapphire..
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Sapphire is more scratch resistant, not shatter resistant.

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TechZeke said:
Glass cracking is the only real reason to have a case nowadays. Phones now are very tough, including the display. It's the glass over the display that shatters at the whim of a hat.

I was actually looking forward to go naked this time around, but looks like I can't. The design makes it even MORE likely to shatter than my current iPhone 5.

I hate to say it, but the seamless curve glass design is putting form over function. The glass doesn't just shatter, it now starts to come apart from the phone. :confused:
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It's not form over function. You're just prioritizing a different function.
 
Why doesn't Apple just go back to all plastic including the screen? I don't know how many times I've dropped my 3gs on concrete without a problem. Sure it scratches easier but that is easy to remedy with a thin film screen protector. You need to use those films anyways for a matte finish unless you like glare from background lights.
 
iososx said:
It does appear that Apple is fearful of building a slightly thicker phone with better battery life and durability. After all the noise they made talking about sapphire, it ended up being a ruse.
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Aren't you embarrassed to waste your time trolling an Apple forum?

Point to a single quote where Apple talked about using sapphire for the iPhone.

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TV Cameraman said:
What I meant to say that I've dropped my sapphire watch several times and also struck it hard against rough surfaces and it never even scratched, much less shattered. But, again, you're right... I've never dropped it directly on its face from that high up.
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A watch crystal has much smaller surface area than an iPhone. The bigger the surface, the more likely it is to break on impact.
 
macaron95 said:
ho ho what a surprise, dropping a smartphone on the floor makes it break, what a genius :rolleyes:


btw the guy has a terrible accent :eek:
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I've accidentily dropped every iPhone I have ever owned (1st gen, 3GS, 4, 4S, 5 and 5C), MULTIPLE times, and have NEVER cracked or broken the screen. I was hoping I might get that lucky with the 6 Plus. I knew because the screen is bigger the chances of it cracking would be high, but man…..this frightens me now! lol
 
I have never seen a phone drop just the way they're dropped in PhoneBuff's drop test. And they might just had iPhones with bad glasses (because that seems to be a thing with smartphones). Like, my friend broke his Lumia 920 with first drop, and I just can't make it break down.

But Android Authority did a drop test that gives a lot of hope with the quality of the glass, because their phones drops the normal way (not straight on the side it's dropped).

Or then it's just me who's phones bounce around until they land on Earth after accidentally dropping it. Don't know.
 
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