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iPhone that fell from hole in Alaska 737 MAX flight is found, still open to Mail

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Post by wiseowise »

arghwhat wrote: post #382
Someone wrote: post #362

FTA: “one revelation seemed to defy the laws of physics: one of the mobile phones that had been sucked out of the Boeing Co. 737 Max 9 jet’s cabin remained in functioning condition after a 16,000-foot tumble.” I don’t know what the full paywalled article says, so they may say the same, but I don’t think that is very surprising. The terminal velocity of a tumbling iPhone won’t be high (about 70km/hour, according to ht…

It's almost as if the laws of physics align entirely with the observed result! Baffling!

So you want to say that phone doesn’t accelerate to infinite speed and doesn’t pulverize itself (or Earth) on impact? WOW!

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Post by CharlesW »

mensetmanusman wrote: post #387
asdajksah2123 wrote: post #385

Crazy considering multiple iPhones (latest being an iPhone 11) haven't survived a few feet fall for me (no case...I'm extremely particular about using a case now).

Must be a U-shaped curve of survival rate versus drop height.

Also, how it lands (corner-first or not) and what it lands on (concrete or tile vs. dirt with ground cover) makes a huge difference.

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Post by mbauman »

topkai22 wrote: post #386

The charging cable was attached and ripped out with the phone, so it probably functioned as a tail, reducing the velocity a bit. Still, it wouldn’t be much. Impressive survivability by the phone.

What remained of the charging cable was not much of a cable — it was barely the connector that remained.

https://nitter.net/SeanSafyre/status/1744247194448961725#m

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Post by earthling8118 »

asdajksah2123 wrote: post #385

Crazy considering multiple iPhones (latest being an iPhone 11) haven't survived a few feet fall for me (no case...I'm extremely particular about using a case now).

I've never owned an iPhone (never will either) but I'm in the opposite boat these days. Cases degrade my phone experience and result in more waste to throw away. These phones are seemingly built like tanks now. I'd be hard pressed to break the screen on this one. It's survived falls on concrete no problem. Generally I don't let it fall because it's too expensive to aimlessly drop.

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Post by earthling8118 »

mbauman wrote: post #374

This isn't much more than the original twitter post: https://nitter.net/SeanSafyre/status/1744138937239822685 The most astonishing thing to me is the destroyed charger cable. Also a good reminder that it's a very good idea to have the screen lock after a set time — even if it's long.

People in another spot were complaining that the auto lock maximum is apparently 5 minutes. It seems odd that this number isn't customizable.

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Post by marssaxman »

alpaca128 wrote: post #306
ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #286

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I solve that, by not doing banking with my phone. Social media and store loyalty apps are basically just PID harvesters. In fact, I have a couple of solitaire games that are constantly nagging me to join leaderboards and take community challenges. All my financial transactions are done with my Mac, which sits behind a fairly robust home network. I know, for certain, that banking apps are the #1 first target, for hack…

Where I live having the app for 2FA is mandatory for online banking unless you can convince them to give you a hardware TAN generator. So transferring money is actually much less convenient in the browser because everything I do has to be confirmed with my pin in the app, so I might as well just do it in the app directly and only login on one device instead of two. Of course this is actually "phone factor authenticat…

My bank has a similarly unhelpful approach, but at least the SMS code expires, and my phone never sees my bank password at all.

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Post by 9front »

mx_03 wrote: post #372

Once it reaches its maximum velocity the altitude doesnt really matter. However I dont know how to calculate that maximum velocity and the minimum required altitute. From the very short snippet I can read (paywall) I dont know if the phone landed in concrete or not.

“It was still pretty clean, no scratches on it, sitting under a bush and it didn’t have a screenlock on it,” from the article. No information how big the bush was but it cushioned the landing.
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