I went on a trip with friends and family to Israel, for my best friend's little sister's wedding. I brought the Evo along for photos, and to watch movies on the plane.
One day, we all went to the southern region for a day, which is mountainous and desert like, and also very hot. The Dead Sea is also located in the south. The first thing we once we arrived was explore an Oasis called En-Gedi (pronounced Ayn-Geddy) due to the fact that it was nearly 110? degrees out. I had to borrow a pair of soccer shorts from my brother because I forgot to pack my bathing suit. The shorts had no pockets so I had to carry my phone in one hand the entire time. I tied my shirt around my head like a sheik, and I also wore sandals which had foam like soles and lacked tread. I took a bunch of photos in the mountains and waterfalls, being careful not to let anything happen to my phone. After we finished exploring, and after taking a dip in a waterfall area, we were climbing back down the mountain to get in the car and go to the dead sea. My brother, always the leader of the group, tracked some water on a stone stairway. My first step and I slipped, nearly flying off a cliff edge some 30 or 40 feet high. Somehow I managed to regain my balance, and simultaneously ensure NOTHING happened to my phone! WHEWWWW!
Later that day we went to get something to eat by the Dead Sea, and after that we took a dip in the Dead Sea. We decided to take shifts swimming since we had valuables on us that we didn't want to leave unattended (in a foreign land, that just so happened to be in the Middle East, and also on the country Jordan's border). I wrapped my phone up in my makeshift sheik, and set it on the ground. At the Dead Sea the salt concentration is so high that the beach sand is solidified due to the mineral concentration, and the sea floor, while feeling like sand, is actually all salt. It's pretty incredible. So my brother and mother floated in the Dead Sea first as my girlfriend and I took the first shift to watch the valuables. After a half hour my mother got out due to "the burning" from all the salt. My girlfriend and I joined my brother for a little while, then we got out, rinsed off and went to grab our valuables.
I went to put my shirt on which was tightly wrapped up the way I set it down. I totally forgot my Evo was in the shirt and I just let my shirt unwrap hastily with a sort of whipping action. My Evo went FLYING! To make things worse it landed on the sand. The solidified, mineralized sand. Luckily it landed backside down, however it picked up scratches. The back door also popped off, and since then I had trouble for awhile getting it to pop on and off when swapping batteries. Luckily I was able to set the plastic tabs back and it opens and shuts fine, and I mostly buffed away the scratches by rubbing them with my thumb and some saliva, but a case would have been lovely. In fact, I had looked for a case at the mall prior to the trip, but the phone was too new, seeing as how I got it the day after it came out, and left at the end of that week. So that's my story!
-David