Ross Stillwell
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The worse part: He had ordered a case for the phone on the same day he ordered the phone... Express shipping... Good Ol' USPS.
Hmm. Perhaps, a bumper isn't a good idea anymore. I was fine with a bumper on my iPhone but it seems like people's Nexus back is cracking for no reason.
this is the result of the phone falling from the second floor onto marble floors...i think it was marble anyway. it was a very hard material lets just say...
http://i48.tinypic.com/24y69te.jpg
still turns on though....
http://i47.tinypic.com/zxpizn.jpg
the bumper didnt help much in this case...
for the record...ive dropped the nexus 4 a bunch of other times before this and it held up perfectly. there were a bunch of times where it hit concrete HARD and i was sure the screen was cracked, but it held up. i dont think any phone would hold up after falling from the second floor onto a hard floor. i wish it wouldve fallen on the back...itd still be functional atleast. the sexiness of the phone is worth the risk of the glass back breaking imo. part of me kind of wishes i had a better case for it...maybe this couldve been avoided, but i also dont want some huge clunky thing covering the phone up. i was extra careless this time around...very unlikely that this situation would happen again...i would hope not anyway.
i also checked a few repair places near me to see how much it would cost. my gf got her iphone fixed for $80...her screen was shattered just like mine, so i expected a similar price. i called them up and they told me it was $250 to fix a cracked screen for the nexus 4. i asked why there was such a difference and he said it was a lot more complicated to get the screen off the nexus 4 and then put the new one on. then i called LG and as others have said...they dont give you an exact price until you send it in. i got my phone through t-mobile...i was sure i didnt have insurance on it, but i decided calling them up couldnt hurt. turns out i did have insurance and theyre sending me a new one tomorrow. i guess that's the one positive of me getting the phone through t-mobile.
Alright here goes my story. I had this phone since, February and you know I took care of it, because I heard of these dropped stories. Finally I bought myself a nice Incipio Feather Snap on Case. Made the phone bulky, I didn't like that.. but I used it for a good couple of months now. So i've been naked for awhile, I just enjoy the design in the back.. even thought my sweaty palms. and the screen protector smudge it like no other. I clean it on a regular basis. I've dropped it from my table in the kitchen... on the carpet. No damage, no problem. I kept thinking like, "Dang these guys, just don't know how to take care of their phones". Kidding, but one day, this was 2 weeks ago. My girlfriend and I, were sitting on a bench... you know at least 2 feet off the ground, I had a cardigan on, those pockets aren't deep. So we were talking and joking around, and finally I don't know what movement I did, but I turned around really quickly and i felt something come out. My phone came out I was like crud! It hit my foot and it fell on the floor, Screen facing up. So I was like "oh cool, it survived!" Nope I turned it over and I have two cracks going passed the nexus logo and going down towards the LG logo. I couldn't believe it, and man did my heart break.
Hopefully you can see the cracks in the picture. It looks kind of cool with the Crack going through the nexus logo. Reminds me kind of V for Vendetta. :-\