My UAG Case Just Saved My Phone....Twice...

[NotAnAppleGuy]

I go through extremes to take care of my phones and electronics. I can count on one hand how many times I have dropped all my previous phones. Not only did I drop my phone once, it happened a second time within two hours. The first time (I'm a police officer) I was dismounting my mountain bike. I go to go in my jacket to get my notebook when Mr Edge pops right out. And as I see this $1000+ phone falling towards the sidewalk in slo mo, all I can say is "Nooooooooooooooooo!"

The phone landed FLUSH on the sidewalk screen side down. Trembling as I picked it up, turned it over and not a scratch. The edges of the case protrude in such a way as to not have it come in contact with the ground. And just THREE WEEKS AGO I was walking around w/o a case on this thing. Best 39.99 I have ever spent because my Xmas was about to be ruined early....

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[Rukbat]

Almost all TPU cases are made like that (with that little lip), which is why that's one of the first things I buy for a new phone. And if the phone lands on an edge or corner, the TPU and silicone liner take a lot of the shock, also saving the screen. (The harder the screen [or any material], the easier it is to fracture if hit lightly on a fracture plane - which is why it takes just a light tap to cut a diamond. A soft plastic screen may scratch easily, but you could drop the phone hard enough to shatter the motherboard without bothering the screen. A diamond screen might break if you put the phone down on the desk at just the wrong angle, but you couldn't scratch it, even with a tungsten carbide scribing tool.)