Contest: Win one of 10 cases from Seidio

[Razanbuddu]

Just last weekend i was walking back from the pool at my apartment complex...i was a little drunk...and had my incredible in my hand. Reached to adjust the towel around my waist and the phone slipped out of my hand and hit the asphalt flat on it's face. i heard that smack and just stared at it for a while dreading what damage had been done before picking it up and seeing the shatter in the front glass panel. phone still works fine, screen accepts finger inputs....but any sliding finger motions end in hurt finger tips. it just got shipped off to be fixed this morning. i really wish i had a case on it.

 

[maswaim]

grrrrind

i was walking and dropped my phone on the concrete. i immediately tried to stop in my tracks, but i just ended up stepping on my phone and grinding it into the pavement extra hard.

 

[insanely]

My Incredible

This is my first droid phone. I don't have a horror story with my droid (yet) but I do have quite a few blackberry storm 1 and storm 2 horror stories of my phone falling out of the car when i've opened the door or dropping it at the zoo while trying to keep up with my kids. I would love to win a Seidio case to protect my incredible I just received. I purchased the moto droid for my wife and the sudio docking station with a pink case, and i must say it has to be the best combo i've seen for smart phones.

best of luck to everyone who enters!

 

[sklemp]

I work with a lot of people who don't exactly get the smartphone industry. But they do always want to play with my phone on some of the games I have. I have never dropped my phone, but that doesn't mean it hasn't been dropped. I can count at least 5 times when my co-workers dropped my phone, but I'm sure it's happened more. A case would go a long way with me because now I wouldn't have to become a jerk and tell them they can't play with my incredible phone.

 

[the337]

a lot of times when i'm driving my car i leave my incredible in my lap as it's harder to get to in my pocket. i had parked my car in my parking lot in my apartment as was getting out when my phone started to tumble out of my lap towards the asphalt. i quickly went to try to grab the phone with my hand and accidentally knocked the phone sideways. luckily it didn't do any real damage to the phone as it landed onto the parking lot. i might not be so lucky a second time and a case would be a great protector!

 

[draken]

Murphy's Law states what can go wrong will. Haven't dropped my phone yet, so I'm tempting Murphy's law. Each day that goes by brings me one step closer to my fateful fulfillment of Murphy's Law. A case would render the drop ineffective, essentially allowing me to beat Murphy's Law. How incredible would that be?

 

[psitech]

I was leaving the grocery store a few days ago and had my Incredible in my hand while holding a couple bags of groceries. While fidgeting to get my keys out of my pocket, the Incredible slipped out of my hand rand barreled toward the pavement of the parking lot. In a split second all I could think about was glass shattering (gorilla glass or not). Amazingly the phone hit my foot first and took a very gentle bounce to the pavement. Not a scratch on it. I might not be so lucky next time.

 

[sqlgeek#AC]

Kah * rah * tay

My 3 year old saw the usb cable that slightly dangled between my laptop that was on the arm of the couch and my Droid Incredible on the side table charging. He had just watched an episode of SpongeBob where he and Sandy were fighting and decided that the usb cable looked like the perfect thing to karate chop. In slow motion I see the phone fly up in the air to the middle of the couch as I grabbed my laptop...

The phone bounces once, then flips over onto the couch barely at the edge. Another inch and it would probably have hit the floor...

After expressing to my child how "not cool" that was, I got a cheap plastic case (which was the only thing available at the time), and I have been patiently waiting for a more rugged case to be available...

 

[dbregman]

I have a three and a half year old son. He is fascinated by my phone (as he should be!). You can imagine though that he is not the best with it when handling it though...
Last week whilst he was watching a streaming YouTube of the Wiggles in the backseat, he dropped the phone and, of course, it went under the seat. There it sat (well, not really sat - more like slid about), until I could pull over and retrieve it!

Fortunately there was no damage, but I would have felt better with it in a case.

David

 

[Scopic]

Here's a real horror story:

I had my silicone case on my Incredible thinking it would be safe from any and all danger.

Boy was I wrong.

As it turns out, the case does not protect it from the crushing force of an air conditioner unit being carelessly dropped from the back of a truck.

Fortunately, though, a warranty does!

So if I do win, I'm going to slap the case on my new baby when it arrives next week!

 

[SubMatrix]

I was holding a bunch of things, going to my car, and still trying to browse the web on my dinc while walking...phone slipped a little bit but luckily I still caught it. That's the closest I've gotten to dropping it so far, thank god.

 

[jyoung]

This didn't happen to me but I am bound and determined to not allow this to happen to MY Droid. I am a Sergeant on a Fire Department in my community we were training with our portable water tanks (approx 3500 gal) and one of my partners was playing with his phone near the tank. Yep, a sudden flow of water came his way and he stumbled with his phone landing in the tank. No need to mention it was water damaged.

This new case will help ease my obsessiveness to keeping my phone clean and dry.

Thanks Seidio and AC for a great contest!

 

[hadisious]

oUCH

The very first day I got my Incredible. I was over at my parents house, and my mom was all mad that she didnt wait for the incredible and instead got the LG EnV or whatever that LG is.

Well she was playing with my incredible over the TILE FLOOR and while trying to navigate the screen with her new nails, DROPPED THE PHONE. I shrieked! My only savior was the pile of laundry on the floor and the soft blanket my phone managed to fall into. THANK GOD FOR LAUNDRY DAY!

I would love a nice Seidio case to blanket my phone forever!

 

[android_dom]

I live on a hill and I was getting out of my friends car at about 3am after a fun night at the bar. He parked facing up the hill, so it was a bit awkward for me in my current state, but I opened the door with my free right hand and pushed it open with my left hand while holding my INC...I bumbled and my INC dropped, hitting the doors arm rest and landing directly on top of my right foot. My heart stopped and everything seemed to go in slow motion...but everything was fine. If I had a case I probably wouldn't have lost my grip and this would have never happened.

 

[DawnGP143]

This near miss actually belongs to my husband, who is an Incredible owner, but leaves all the techy blog posting to me

He's a police officer...and tends to write all his citations on the trunk of his patrol car. While he's doing it, he got a phone call, and when he hung up, he set the phone down on the trunk next to his clipboard....and yes, you guessed it....drove off with it there. Thank God for insurance....but it was STILL expensive to replace!!! A case might have helped!!!! (BTW....it's still naked...he can't decide on a case he likes and hates the thought of spending $30 on a case. Dummy...insurance deductible was MUCH more)

 

[anon(12291)]

I was down in Murfreesboro, Arkansas at the Crater of Diamonds State Park (only place where you can mine/sift for diamonds in the US), and my friend and I were at the wet sifting stations. Being the obsessive Tweeter that I am, I pull out my Incredible (which had been ooh'd and aah'd over by my friends, especially when Google Nav got us to this remote location without so much as a hiccup), to send out a quick Twitpic to keep my followers up to date.

So, I'm lining up the picture, leaning over the side sifting pool to catch what my friends are doing, and I end up leaning too far. I frantically throw out my arms to try and regain balance, and succeed, but my phone isn't in my hands anymore. I then see it coming down from it's arc (I had thrown it up) and that it would land in the pool of muddy water. I did what comes naturally (I'm a second degree black belt) - I punched it. Thankfully, it missed the sifting pool... but it hit my friend right in the eye and dropped into his wet/muddy/rocky sifting pan. I was more concerned about the phone than my injured friend.

Thankfully, once it was cleaned off, I was able to verify that the phone was working just fine, and the only damage was a large collection of scratches on the back. I bought a replacement battery cover and all's good now, but I don't know how we would have gotten back to civilization if my phone had kicked (or landed in) the bucket. A case would reduce the chance of device-ruining damage while I'm in the boonies.

 

[ZipKicker]

While driving I keep incredible on my lap so it doesn't get scratched up from my seat belt...went to work...opened the door and flung the seat belt off...well the incredible was barely on the seat belt, and it was launched about 5 feet out the door across the broken asphalt parking lot...ended uphaving to just replace their battery cover (luckily)

A case would be much appreciated

 

[ScottG]

I was playing UNO with some of my friends on my DInc. We were playing multiplayer so we passed it around and took turns. One of my friends threw it to another friend, but the receiving friend didn't catch it. The phone fell to the hardwood floor and [thankfully] only suffered from minor nicks on the four front corners of the phone. Even though the phone landed face-down, the screen showed no signs of damage. This could have easily been prevented with a Seidio case!

 

[joedirt2217]

I dropped mine the first few minutes I got it, after waiting a month for it being back ordered. I was going to put my Dinc up on the counter to charge and I accidentally smacked the front of the counter causing it to fall to the ground. I didn't see where it fell, so I backed up a step and found it by stepping on it. Doh!! Cracked screen and some road rash.....I was super pissed! Just got my replacement phone.....would love to have great case for it, like the Active.

I'm a former BB Storm 9530 user.....haven't I suffered enough and deserve some extra goodness in my life?

 

[mc_88]

Well I just doing some Army training in Minn and we were out at the range and when you shoot you have to jump down into a little fox hole to shoot from for part of the range. I was lucky to have a cheap case on it cause it fell out of my pocket into the dirty concrete bottom of the hole. The plastic case took all the damage, but it cracked and is no good to me anymore. I need a real case for it especially since we leave for 6weeks of training in Camp Shelby Miss. before deploying in August. Can't use the phone on deployment, but it would be nice to have a safe phone to call home with while in Mississippi