The iPhone is made of aluminosilicate chalk . Apple says it ’s “ chemically beef up to be 20 times cockeyed and 30 times harder than charge card ” and it ’s “ ultradurable and more gelt resistant than ever . ” Still not enough to survive a 3.5 - foot drop .
That ’s what the people at iFixyouri did : Test Apple ’s claims by dropping the iPhone 4 from 3.5 feet , the aloofness you drop a phone when you ’re stick out up . They say their iPhone — which they take is substantial , but without any internal component — outlast the first two shocks .
On the third one , however , the display was completely shattered after a tacky pappa . That ’s a sound I ’m in person familiar with : My current iPhone 3 G ’s display has break two times in the same way .

It ’s not surprising that the Cupertino ship’s company is releasing a protective instance of their own called the “ bumper ” . Because now , unlike old iPhones where there ’s one side that has a display and one side that ’s plastic or aluminum — where you do n’t like if it gets messed up or cracked — now both sides are trash . Which means both incline are susceptible to break . My iPhone was drop on its showing face two prison term and broke two clip . I recede count on the time it dropped on its back .
This newfangled material—20 clock time stiffer and 30 times backbreaking than plastic — still shatters when leave out . But is it scratch - validation ? More start - resistive ? The test does n’t say . Having both sides be more scratch immune — the backs of everyone ’s phones is most probably much more scuffed than the front — is a good matter , if it really is . But let the phone , as a whole , be more likely to transgress from drops is a spoiled matter .
And figure the scenario where you have to put your phone down on concrete . Previously , you just it down back first , because you did n’t care what the back looks like . Now that the lightlessness is shiny and smooth and glass , what do you do ? ( Oh yes , Apple ’s own bumper case . )

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