Try dropping it from 2 feet and watch the screen shatter.
iPhone that fell from hole in Alaska 737 MAX flight is found, still open to Mail
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#464Obscured the credit card # but didn't think to grant the passenger some privacy and obscure their full name?
Likely because the aim is to find the actual owner of the phone?
Really? You dont think the NTSB worker in the picture won't be capable of informing the owner/returning it after they collect it from the scene?
If I found the phone like that guy did my last thought would be to post pictures of the persons private emails and full name to the internet - and get a bunch of attention for it.
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#465The terminal velocity of an iPhone is around 25-30mph. Past a certain height, it doesn't matter how high up the device is.
Dropping an iPhone out at 16,000ft is probably the same as throwing it off a tall building. I'd imagine a 3 or 4 storey building would be enough to reach terminal velocity.
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#466Earlier quoted context omitted.
Then why does my phone break when I drop it?
Because there isn't much difference in the force between a 1m and a 8000m drop due to the above. So it really comes down to case, angle, and material onto which it was dropped with corners being more vulnerable.
There is. Dropping your phone follows a curve, it falling from 16,000ft it does not. There are more forces at play when you fumble your phone. They aren't necessarily stronger forces though...just more of them. Trajectory and spinning add different forces on top of gravity. There is also the catch attempt that invariably forces the phone down harder and changes the trajectory.
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#467Interestingly, but last month while climbing (actually doing ferratas, if you don't know what it is check it out, very fun and friendly) in a mountain the phone fell of my pocket, easily 35 meters free fall onto the forest below.
I recovered it (by using find my, thanks Apple) and it was intact.
Two days later it fell out of my pocket while sitting in my tourism european car (short) into the concrete of the road and the glass shattered.
So yeah, the elevation doesn't seem to matter as much as the terrain it hits and the angle.
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#468Earlier quoted context omitted.
Lufthansa wanted $450,- for an oversized bag (300cm sides, 30kg) on a 3h flight. Awful company.
Fuck Lufthansa. I bought a round trip, but bought a different flight out for circumstances not pertinent to the story. Anyways, on the return trip, they wouldn't let me check-in, for a flight leaving in 2 hours, with a valid ticket through them, because I didn't take the departure flight out. I STILL don't understand the angle there, but I learned you can buy a plane ticket to anywhere in the world (except Australia…
I'm just the messenger and I'm not claiming it's fair, but this is standard procedure everywhere in the world: when you buy a round-trip ticket (single PNR), if you are a no-show for any leg then you're forfeiting the whole ticket. If the ticket for example includes a train ride to the airport, and you don't show up for the train ride, you're forfeiting the flight as well.
Some airlines might not enforce that if you're deemed an important enough customer for them, but I just want to bring this up because being a no-show in the outbound flight and keeping the return flight is not a right that customers have in general, basically in any IATA airline. It's not really Lufthansa specific, those are rules that the whole industry applies.
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#469Earlier quoted context omitted.
With a touch login on the phone and (say) google authenticator IMHO it's considerably less inconvenient to login into something online with the desktop than what Chase does to me. The phone is sitting right there anyway, and 6 digits to type in by hand is not that big a deal. I do it all the time. Basically the phone is the 2FA generator.
Does "the app" mean the site's app?
I mean the bank's phone app. It is locked to one specific device and is the only possible method of authentication. I either need to use the app itself, or confirm every login and transaction in the app when using a browser.
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#470KPTV interviews with the guy who found it, the woman who found a headrest and the guy who found the door https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=To-viCd1Ow4