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iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus Successfully Survive Second Drop Test
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Should have added that I find the 5s too thin, same for the 6. The 5s is much better to use with a case, makes it feel more secure in your hand and not like you're going to break it even when in you pocket or just on your desk. Only down side is it won't fit into more docks with the case on but I don't have a dock so not an issue for me.
The thing I love so much about the internet is that you can find so many knowledgeable people there. The thing I hate about the internet is that everyone seems to know everything. If you're not a **** you know what I mean.
Anyway, tbh - I read first two pages and skipped the rest - so I have no idea what was said on those 6 pages - and I don't really care either...but what I really want to say is that I don't agree with the above quotes. Hey, they might be true, but I honestly, personally, don't see any glass flying or screens separating from the phone.
...All I see is **** resolution videos and pictures with a 16:9 resolution (as in 16*9 pixels for the whole images. Sloppy!). Alright, a bit exaggerated, but the quality of those videos are so bad that you really can tell.
They may have been fiddling with the results...but perhaps they weren't - who knows? ...dropping things aren't an exact science and minute changes/insignificant differencens can make a lot of difference.
I just ordered a 6+ today and hope that it survives the next couple of years. I've had 3 iPhones before and although (only) dropping them them a couple times each (max) they have survived. I like that and I hope the new 6+ will too.
The open the box and drop the phone test shows a few things, but I think the out thing it should show is that the phone should be put more deeply in the box, like maybe 1/4" lower, just so it can catch on the box lip. i know this may be a cost/benefit of making the box 20% thicker, so it might be on the consumer to protect it.
Oh well
Oh well
He wasn't very careful, we would have had to lay a fluffy down blanket down on that cement if the news wanted me to open my box outside.
If people want to touch my phone I make them sign a little piece of paper that says, if they break it they will replace it, they don't want to see it after that. I'm like then you never should have asked to touch it in the first place if you don't want to pay for it if you break it.
If people want to touch my phone I make them sign a little piece of paper that says, if they break it they will replace it, they don't want to see it after that. I'm like then you never should have asked to touch it in the first place if you don't want to pay for it if you break it.
Dodgy packaging.. My iPhone6 slipped out the same way.. when I opened it. Fortunately, it didn't drop on concrete pavement :/
http://www.9news.com.au/technology/...iphone-6-bought-in-perth-is-dropped-on-ground
http://www.9news.com.au/technology/...iphone-6-bought-in-perth-is-dropped-on-ground
From a design perspective, why bother making a 6.9mm thick aluminium unibody phone with seamless glass edges then? Why not just have a slightly thicker, stronger phone made of plastic with no curved glass?
Apple has been going greener and greener for years now. Are you surprised a piece of grass broke off the phone?
Here's more info on Apple's "Green" efforts:
Green Apple
/sarcasm
I'm glad we've seen tests where the phone shatters. It means that when the sapphire coated version comes out people can't claim that it would have been unbreakable if not for the sapphire coating.
So now him stating "it's all good" and repeatedly touching a part of the phone that may or may not have gotten damaged is "coming away miraculously unscathed."
Sounds like a bit of a stretch to make to me, but maybe I'm too cynical?
Good luck with Macrumors updating or fixing their statement on this. Ignorance is bliss and anything to please diehardcore fanboy is their moto. It's MacRumors after all.
Initially, I was very excited and been waiting for iPhone 6 plus to happen, but after seeing few of the drop test I am not sure if I'd get one now, their quality has dropped. I may wait for the next version..
the surface matters
In the other drop tests where both screens cracked, the phones where dropped on flagstones — a relatively irregular surface with lots of jagged edges. The tiles in this drop test are relatively flat. It helps that there are no small raised areas on the ground that focus the energy to a small area of the glass.
I fumbled my iPhone 5 several times. A couple of times, concrete sidewalks put dents in the aluminum and nicked the edge of the glass, but the screen remained intact. However one time I dropped it in an asphalt parking lot that had lots of pea-sized gravel — that set me back $150 to replace the shattered screen (it still worked, but I didn't want to deal with the cracks).
..The lid on that iPhone's box is air tight and takes time to take it off — that's why that poor kid dropped his phone (he's probably not a klutz like me).
In the other drop tests where both screens cracked, the phones where dropped on flagstones — a relatively irregular surface with lots of jagged edges. The tiles in this drop test are relatively flat. It helps that there are no small raised areas on the ground that focus the energy to a small area of the glass.
I fumbled my iPhone 5 several times. A couple of times, concrete sidewalks put dents in the aluminum and nicked the edge of the glass, but the screen remained intact. However one time I dropped it in an asphalt parking lot that had lots of pea-sized gravel — that set me back $150 to replace the shattered screen (it still worked, but I didn't want to deal with the cracks).
..The lid on that iPhone's box is air tight and takes time to take it off — that's why that poor kid dropped his phone (he's probably not a klutz like me).
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Now THAT'S a successful troll! Totally hijacking the thread with his bogus conspiracy theory about Android fan sites faking drop tests in Apple's favour because they want cushy jobs.
Frankly I think it lame that Samsung feels it necessary to maintain a slush fund to pay students to troll the competition in this way. Compete on merit, don't stoop to such pathetic lows.
At first I was impressed but then after watching a couple more drop test on YouTube, the damn thing cannot survive even the pocket height drop...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfeJbKKSRm0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lMWft_NHQs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfeJbKKSRm0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lMWft_NHQs
To address your points in order:
Glass panel separation
1. The image quality isn't good enough to determine that. I'm no photography expert, but the rolling shutter effect is pretty well documented when filming things in motion. Basically you have a grainy image of a high speed object in motion, with a high likelihood of processing artifacts . Once the phone stops moving, the image is too grainy to conclusively determine anything.
2. The screen is held in by clips. It's entirely possible that the force of the impact was great enough to create a small separation before the clips pulled it back snug to the body. Temporary separation is not proof of screen damage, but again, we can't even conclusively determine that separation happened.
Glass "shards"
This one's easy. There's a twig and sand on the ground, and that stuff moves when the hits. If you think you can determine that what you see there is glass, you can somehow see more detail than the video provides....
"they cut to a completely intact phone"
If they did, they did it with extreme precision. Note the angle of the bricks and the position of the twig in the video of the drop from above, and look at the positions of those elements in the frame where they pick the phone up. Identical.
As others have said, i have no idea why Android Authority would fake an Apple drop test. Nor does one good test mean the phone will always survive. It would be completely expected to see the phone pass some drop tests and fail others.
Dude, wear some socks with those shoes!
Maybe he just does not want anybody to know he is an American...
This side of the pond, we can always spot an American by the shorts, socks, shoes/sandals combo. It looks truly ridiculous, only old men would dress like that.
This Android Authority guy is clearly a radical divergent, you should perhaps lock him up in guantanamo bay?
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Use slow-mo to see if it's enough or not. More than enough to see that it did came apart. Get real and get over the fact that the iPhone 6/6+ display quality is poor. If you still like it, buy it, if not don't. But truth of the matter will remain the same. Quality has dropped compared to the previous generation.
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Don't bother. They're too blind to see the truth.
I have to say that it does look like the screen separates from the back when looked at from more than one angle from different cameras. This of course doesn't mean the screen broke nor does it mean that they are intentionally trying to mislead us. However, anyone who just discounts the video evidence isn't being rational. You have to consider all the evidence, and the video evidence strongly indicates that the screen did in fact separate from the glass.