This is the one area where Motorola pretty much dominates the market, and that's build quality. Even if a phone is horrible, in most any review the build quality is praised to no end, lol. My X and X2 are built like tanks. I've had both fall from 4 to 5 feet with no broken parts, just a scratch on the phone - and even then never a scratch on the glass.
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DavidJ726
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...<snip> If not, buy a second phone(via the internet) exhange the handsets and smash the ever loving hell out of the box(and claim the damage during shipping)
I certainly hope you're kidding. You're basically advocating dishonesty & theft...
I agree. Seems to me the people that don't buy insurance are the ones most prone to "accidents". I will use the word, because someone with the word "idiot" in his screen name posting this should be made to understand we all think he/she is one.
For posting, not getting insurance in the 1st place and for not taking care with the phone, and thinking we should feel for them because "the phone should be able to take normal day to day abuse".
The phones are made to take normal day to day USE. Don't expect them to be able to take ABUSE of any kind.
Be aware.... LOLS.
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Unfortunately, you just learned the hard way that glass is still glass, and it will break whether its fortified or not. (and the Rezound's is most definitely an aluminosilicate glass like Gorilla glass) Like others have said, it all depends on how it hits, how far it falls, and the force with which it falls. You could have the same phone fall in every so slightly different ways, and one phone's screen would break while the other's would be fine.
Some anecdotal evidence: The iPhone 4 I'm languishing on waiting for the Nexus has fallen about half a dozen times and hasn't gotten so much as a scratch on it. This includes falling on a corner, falling flat on its face, and several variations in between. But somebody else could have their phone fall in a similar way, and their screen would break.
In short: Glass is still glass, and will still break in many situations.
Some anecdotal evidence: The iPhone 4 I'm languishing on waiting for the Nexus has fallen about half a dozen times and hasn't gotten so much as a scratch on it. This includes falling on a corner, falling flat on its face, and several variations in between. But somebody else could have their phone fall in a similar way, and their screen would break.
In short: Glass is still glass, and will still break in many situations.
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I hardly ever carry my desireZ/G2 in my trousers (pants to those in USA). I either put them in my gadget bag or deeper jacket pockets.
I use those "gel" cases, which provide a good buffer zone, especially to protect the corners where stress is more likely to crack the screen.
That said, I have dropped it twice, where the headphones or charger cable was snagged on something.
I do agree that these devices should be able to take small drops without being utterly ruined. When I worked at a company making commercial radio systems, the prototype handsets underwent lots of drop tests to see how they failed so they could be made more robust.
Modern mobile phones are a pinnacle of technology for size and performance and needing to put them in a huge otter-box is crazy! Sure, wrap your space-age tech in a bit of dead cow
I use those "gel" cases, which provide a good buffer zone, especially to protect the corners where stress is more likely to crack the screen.
That said, I have dropped it twice, where the headphones or charger cable was snagged on something.
I do agree that these devices should be able to take small drops without being utterly ruined. When I worked at a company making commercial radio systems, the prototype handsets underwent lots of drop tests to see how they failed so they could be made more robust.
Modern mobile phones are a pinnacle of technology for size and performance and needing to put them in a huge otter-box is crazy! Sure, wrap your space-age tech in a bit of dead cow
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My girlfriend has an Incredible, and it's fallen out of parked cars, from our window sill and onto the floor or heater (I was using it as an alarm), her purse, etc. All she had on it was a vanity case we got at the mall for like $15. The phone is pretty much still in mint condition.
Basically, it all depends on the fall. Physics is very real, folks. Not every fall will be the same. All engineered products have some sort of structural weakness that will eventually rear its ugly head.
Well, except those G'zone phones or whatever. They take some serious damage.
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Not long ago I watched a video on the HTC site wherein they showed their phones going through torture tests. Not only drops but some lengthy amount of time in a clothes drier looking machine that tumbled the phone. Those phones were operational and none were damaged.
Have they changed the way they were making phones?
Have they changed the way they were making phones?
I don't believe those videos. Its like the Apple one showing the glass bending. Yet, the phone shatters with a two foot drop.
It must be how it landed that is the problem, I',m a clutz and have dropped my rezound a number of times with no issue at all. If yours landed on a corner on a hard surface, it probably would have broke ANY phone, just the luck of how it landed.
My motorcycle cost $10k brand new but I know the right (or wrong depending on perspective) kind of drop while stationary can cause severe engine damage.
Get insurance. Chit happens and nothing is indestructible. Heck I've only made one insurance claim in 7 years:
I got mugged and they stole the phone.
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Get insurance. Chit happens and nothing is indestructible. Heck I've only made one insurance claim in 7 years:
I got mugged and they stole the phone.
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Because I suggest something in jest doesn't advocate anything. And quite frankly I agree with the OP that he probably got a phone in the 1% that doesn't meet manufacturing standards. So why should I side with a nameless faceless manufacturer over a real live human being that has a set of circumstances that could easily be mine? Now that being said, shouldn't the manufacturer protect against something like this? If I just spent $299 on a phone it shouldn't break being dropped a foot and a half on to carpet. And when it does I call that a defect. I'd do anything in my power not to give the manufacturer another red cent AND get a replacement out of them. So while I was joking about scamming Verizon for a new phone...I'd probably think hard about it if I was the OP.
the serial numbers wouldnt match if you tried that.
and yes htc and google had a number of videos out showing the development and testing of the first nexus, which i had. some of those tests involved plenty of dropping the phones.
and yes htc and google had a number of videos out showing the development and testing of the first nexus, which i had. some of those tests involved plenty of dropping the phones.
Fairly sure while they may test against drops, actually dropping your phone is outside acceptable use.
Same way my watch is water resistant to 200m, holding my arm underwater voids its warranty
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So is throwing your wiimote through a tv. So Nintendo started giving out leashes with every one.
Crash bars dude! Would never ride without em. Will keep the bike from falling on you AND the engine. $250, user installable.
Yeah but they didn't give out new TVs... Or replacement remotes either
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err.. Ive dropped my phone probably 25+ times since ive owned it (aprox 1 year). Every smartphone should beable to withstand a drop.
Take the glass off of any modern high end smartphone and it'll bend like that. It's when that glass is attached to something (like, oh, the front face of a smartphone) that many of it's break-resistant properties go out the window. No glass is immune to the laws of physics.
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