I'll be impressed if they give it the Timex test of old. Strap it to an outboard motor blade and tool around the bay.
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iPhone 6 Gets Sent Into Space by Urban Armor Gear
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The fact that the iPhone can't operate in normal winter conditions is actually a problem. When skiing, if you use your phone to take some photos it gets cold and turns off :/
G-Form did this a few years ago with their iPad case. These guys a a bit late to the game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4xNcF6T7Is
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4xNcF6T7Is
This is incorrect.
The weather balloon bursts when the iPhone reaches the edge of the atmosphere. Why?
The lack of outside atmospheric pressure allows the balloon to expand until it bursts - ie. the air pressure inside the balloon is greater than the outside air pressure to such an extent that the balloon expands until it bursts. You can see it if you watch the video (the picture jolts substantially and the accelerometer begins to count down rapidly).
So no, the iPhone is not deposited gently by a balloon into the mud. That said, there almost certainly is a parachute deployed that slows the descent somewhat and saves the rig from being smashed to pieces.
Pointless? I guess that all depends on your definition of pointless.
Funny but useless...
Physically after xxx meter falls you reach the maximum falling speed, so starting at 1000000 meters or 300 meters would produce same falling speed and therefore same results... Unless if you consider the outside temperature...
Anyway as the phone is hold permanently this is not a good test plus nothing is shown in the video that the phone was working, before nor after...
Just a viral video for... Nothing...
Physically after xxx meter falls you reach the maximum falling speed, so starting at 1000000 meters or 300 meters would produce same falling speed and therefore same results... Unless if you consider the outside temperature...
Anyway as the phone is hold permanently this is not a good test plus nothing is shown in the video that the phone was working, before nor after...
Just a viral video for... Nothing...
150rpm isn't a lot. It's just over 3 revs per second. Most people can go that fast by standing and spinning on the spot (not for long though), and a lot faster in an office chair 
Is it a fair statement to say that the same result would have occurred had a naked iPhone been put to the same test?
150rpm isn't a lot. It's just over 3 revs per second. Most people can go that fast by standing and spinning on the spot (not for long though), and a lot faster in an office chair
Isn't it 2.5 revs per second?
Strap one to the side of a Delta IV Heavy that IS sent to space, and recover it off the booster casing.
THEN I will be impressed if the iPhone survives.
Like others have said, I'm more interested in the GoPro cameras and what they were equipped with and how they survived. My batteries for my 3+ don't last long enough to make a flight like this one, PLUS I don't think they would take to the cold very well.
The Red Bull jumper, Felix Baumgartner, jumped at 127,851 feet. This one seems like a #FAIL compared to that one.
THEN I will be impressed if the iPhone survives.
Like others have said, I'm more interested in the GoPro cameras and what they were equipped with and how they survived. My batteries for my 3+ don't last long enough to make a flight like this one, PLUS I don't think they would take to the cold very well.
The Red Bull jumper, Felix Baumgartner, jumped at 127,851 feet. This one seems like a #FAIL compared to that one.
What's not to like?
They shot a phone into 'Space' as an excuse for marketing that stands out from the crowd. It worked. I haven't heard of these cases before, and now I have, so their job is done. And in a fairly interesting (if you're into that sort of thing) way.
There may be facts askew, but you geeks can pick up on that stuff all you like.
If this were more than marketing then sure, go ahead and pick apart the science all you like. While you're at it you can come back to me with some facts and science that explains how Coca Cola have extremely sexy, thin, gorgeous people slurping down calorific quantities of the good stuff on the beach while enjoying a better life of fun and carefree frivolity than you do. While remaining thin. Not fat.
It's how advertising works, dumba$$.
They shot a phone into 'Space' as an excuse for marketing that stands out from the crowd. It worked. I haven't heard of these cases before, and now I have, so their job is done. And in a fairly interesting (if you're into that sort of thing) way.
There may be facts askew, but you geeks can pick up on that stuff all you like.
If this were more than marketing then sure, go ahead and pick apart the science all you like. While you're at it you can come back to me with some facts and science that explains how Coca Cola have extremely sexy, thin, gorgeous people slurping down calorific quantities of the good stuff on the beach while enjoying a better life of fun and carefree frivolity than you do. While remaining thin. Not fat.
It's how advertising works, dumba$$.
It's widely accepted that 'space' begins at 100km, 62 miles. It's called the Kármán line and denotes the point at which the atmosphere is too thin to support winged flight. An object (plane?) at that altitude would have to accelerate to escape velocity to stay up, and at that point be in orbit.
But anyway...
How long are we going to be flogged by the 'facts' from the company. I mean, the iPhone did freeze. Not much of a 'protective' case...
After all, my OtterBox saved my 6+ from a drop of over 3 feet onto a porcelain tiled floor.
But anyway...
How long are we going to be flogged by the 'facts' from the company. I mean, the iPhone did freeze. Not much of a 'protective' case...
After all, my OtterBox saved my 6+ from a drop of over 3 feet onto a porcelain tiled floor.
Well, yeah. Sort of my point. There was that scandal earlier this week where Apple got a patent for action cameras, and the GoPro investors panicked, worried that Apple was gonna come take over there space. But I don't think Apple understands that space enough to be any kind of threat in it.
Wait, so they sent an iPhone 100,000ft to promote the case which didn't protect the iPhone... Oooooook. HTC did this and their phone was still operational and recorded video. That was just housed in foam.
And even that would be kind of gratuitous -- doesn't need to be anywhere near that high up to achieve terminal velocity. The extra altitude is just gimmicky.
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After all, my OtterBox saved my 6+ from a drop of over 3 feet onto a porcelain tiled floor.
That's a worse drop than this phone in the video took! It fell in DIRT. In the absence of any big rocks, you really couldn't ask for a better impact cushion.
It was a marketing ploy. And there will be some who see the video and then purchase the case.
A win for the case maker.
150rpm isn't a lot. It's just over 3 revs per second. Most people can go that fast by standing and spinning on the spot (not for long though), and a lot faster in an office chair
In my defence, I was dizzy when I did that calculation...