Picked up my new Maxx a couple nights ago and was waiting on my Diztronic TPU case to show up today.
Well before i could get that case on, i was at work and had the phone in my shirt pocket. I bent over to work on this machine and out came the phone and dropped about 2' onto the concrete floor. Cracked clear across the entire screen and chipped the edge in a few places.
I know that the Gorilla glass is only supposed to be scratch resistant, but i dropped my Droid X i dont know how many times in the last 3 years and hardly a scratch. Granted it was in a TPU case the all but two or three times.
So another $100 to Asurion for the deductible and hopefully ill have a brand new phone sent to me.
Im a little leery that they will send me someones return or worse yet a refurb, but hopefully the phone is so new that ill get a new one.
Moral of the story if your going naked, you better have some insurance. The edge to edge glass im starting to think is not such a great idea. I work around (and under) a lot of machinery and in some nasty places. I suspect that the crack wouldn't have happened if i had the TPU case on it, as it looked like it landed on its edge. The case does cover the edges just enough.
Now as easy as it chipped in the other areas concerns me that if i drop the dam thing right on its face onto something hard, itll easily crack. I have to think that the glass used on the Maxx is at least as good if not better than what was used on my Droid X.
Who knows maybe it was just a fluke and it landed just right. Maybe it isnt and i should be looking at a Lifeproof or Otterbox case or another phone?
Well before i could get that case on, i was at work and had the phone in my shirt pocket. I bent over to work on this machine and out came the phone and dropped about 2' onto the concrete floor. Cracked clear across the entire screen and chipped the edge in a few places.
I know that the Gorilla glass is only supposed to be scratch resistant, but i dropped my Droid X i dont know how many times in the last 3 years and hardly a scratch. Granted it was in a TPU case the all but two or three times.
So another $100 to Asurion for the deductible and hopefully ill have a brand new phone sent to me.
Im a little leery that they will send me someones return or worse yet a refurb, but hopefully the phone is so new that ill get a new one.
Moral of the story if your going naked, you better have some insurance. The edge to edge glass im starting to think is not such a great idea. I work around (and under) a lot of machinery and in some nasty places. I suspect that the crack wouldn't have happened if i had the TPU case on it, as it looked like it landed on its edge. The case does cover the edges just enough.
Now as easy as it chipped in the other areas concerns me that if i drop the dam thing right on its face onto something hard, itll easily crack. I have to think that the glass used on the Maxx is at least as good if not better than what was used on my Droid X.
Who knows maybe it was just a fluke and it landed just right. Maybe it isnt and i should be looking at a Lifeproof or Otterbox case or another phone?