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iPhone 6 Gets Sent Into Space by Urban Armor Gear

Houston we have a problem. My iPhone battery just died after a few hours. Do they power sockets in space?
 
redscull said:
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.
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Apple is a huge company, they have a resources to understand it enough in no time :p

That being said, I don't see Apple entering into that line of products. It just wouldn't make sense for them to and would go against their core principles or doing a few things really well.
 
"We have a good one"

That last little bit of conversation in the video "We have a good one" makes me wonder how many attempts were tried.
 
ArtOfWarfare said:
If the iPhone had just been dropped from 101 K feet and survived the landing from nothing more than the case, that would have been amazing.
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Why? There's no difference between dropping from 2,000 feet, 101,000 feet or 328,000 feet.

Yes, on the bigger drops you reach higher speeds along the way, but down to the ground you slow down due to air friction and reach a reasonably stable terminal velocity of somewhere between 120 and 200 mph, depending on how streamlined the case is. 1800 feet drop ensures you have 99% of terminal velocity, anything over that doesn't increase risk or damage.
 
this is not a fair test. the phone wasn't dropped directly from space. it was attached to something which absorbed all the force when it landed.
 
Leddy said:
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.
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Ok, you win -- it wasn't technically a balloon that slowed the fall into soft dirt, it was a parachute. Who cares? The point is that you could do much worse with a tile floor in your own home.
 
ArtOfWarfare said:
Really boring, stupid video.

If the iPhone had just been dropped from 101 K feet and survived the landing from nothing more than the case, that would have been amazing.

Honestly though, it was pointless. It was a video of an iPhone being gently set in some soft dirt by a balloon, and the iPhone happened to have a case on. I seriously doubt the outcome would have been any different without the case.

Also, I'm a bit surprised at how warm it is at 101 K feet up. I thought the temperature would be much closer to absolute zero than just -50. You can find that temperature at sea level near the poles.
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One of Kepler's Laws states that you can't reach absolute zero on Earth in any conditions. That's 0 K, or -273.15 C. It's not physically possible.
 
After this video finished I watched one of the YouTube suggestions that showed an iPhone 6 surviving 24 hours buried in snow (without a case). UAG proved nothing and did GoPro a favor.
 
mtwojan said:
After this video finished I watched one of the YouTube suggestions that showed an iPhone 6 surviving 24 hours buried in snow (without a case). UAG proved nothing and did GoPro a favor.
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My wife's original iPhone survived two years in mud. A little dirty under the face glass, one of the backlight LEDs stayed on low brightness permanently (reducing battery life,) but it worked.
 
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