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It depends on where you drop it. Dropping phones on pavement is easy mode. One mistake over coarse gravel and you're pretty fucked even without much height.
What is it about coarse gravel that makes it a phone killer? Is it because there are more edges?
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And MacBook Pros. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudden_Motion_Sensor Though I don't recall iPods having that feature, nor can I find anything online supporting that claim.
Macs had it as a machine feature. All others had it in the drives themselves.
Lenovo/IBM have a Free Fall Sensor in the laptop.
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> In 25+ years of carrying a naked mobile phone everywhere I've never broken one. If you’re going to include the pre smart phone era of mobile phones in the discussion, it would be nice to let people know
Keep in mind that the Sony-Ericsson smartphones from 25 years ago did not fail to advance as time marched on. By the time the iPhone was revealed the Sonys at the time made Apples look pretty dumb by comparison.
Why the emphasis on Apple when Samsung was there first? It looks like the competition is making them sweat (pun intended).
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Please don't post flamebait on HN. Stereotyping a large group of people as "obsessed" in reaction to one comment by one person is not cool.
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Watching that video, the first thought I have is "So much engineering and I still need to buy a phone case with my new phone?" I'm guessing phone cases are still pretty much required if you drop your phone once or twice a month onto cement/asphalt/marble/etc from pocket height. I would be really curious to hear the internal debate at Apple wrt design tradeoffs + durability. E.g. how much of the iPhone design is only…
How do you propose making a device that people wouldn't feel the need to put a case on? You could make the whole thing out of rubber but that's still going to take cosmetic damage that people want to protect the device from. You could make it easy to replace that rubber... but at what point is that not just functionally the same as a case?
It is a bit bigger with protective shell around it is bulky, but withstood all the drops that a typical phone would break. There is some flaring around the screen and camera that it prevents most of scratches. The back has some sort of hard rubber but it held up well.
I've only had to replace the screen protector within 3 years as the scuffs and marks made it difficult to see in well-lit environment.
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It depends on where you drop it. Dropping phones on pavement is easy mode. One mistake over coarse gravel and you're pretty fucked even without much height.
Gravel absorbs more energy than pavement, I don't see how it is worse.
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I am considering buying the Air over the base model 17. Only concern I have is whether the battery will degrade faster over charging cycles than base model? Someone with more experience in battery tech could explain if that could be the case possibly?
Of course it will. Less capacity, it means that you'll have more cycles per year (for example you might need to charge base model once in a two days, while air once in a day); or you'll keep air at more extreme battery values (for example you might charge base model every day, but you'll charge it from 25% to 80%, while you'll charge air model every day from 5% to 80%). That doesn't matter, though. Battery replacemen…
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I never understood screen protectors. In 15 years I have never used a screen protector on any smartphone, and have also never had any scratches on the screen either. On average, I keep the same phone for 3-4 years (current phone is an iPhone 11, coming up on 6 years old).
It’s easy to understand, when the phone accidentally drops on concrete from >1m of height there is a great chance of shattering the glass. It happens to millions of person, myself included, no matter the care it’s an accident that can cost 300$ to repair. 10$ the screen protector is worth it. I guess you’re lucky !
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Which one do you recommend?
I think you probably can't go too wrong just searching for 600D aramid + the name of your phone and picking one from a seller with good reviews, but the specific one I have is this: https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256805920169643.html . Before that, I was using this one from Thinborne: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CHLF8FD7 . For all intents and purposes, they're functionally identical. I slightly preferred the style o…