Video of HTC One drop test

[Air Force One]

It proves that there are people out there that are dumb enough to think drop tests have even the slightest bit of credibility.

This is from me, on my EVO 3D.

Your post tells me there are people out there that discount anything negative about devices they love. Drop tests are perfectly legit. Especially regarding a device that people are encouraged to not cover with a case because it is admittedly beautiful. People should know how delicate and easy to break the One appears.... At least the speaker grills anyway.

 

[xlDeMoNiClx]

Your post tells me there are people out there that discount anything negative about devices they love. Drop tests are perfectly legit. Especially regarding a device that people are encouraged to not cover with a case because it is admittedly beautiful. People should know how delicate and easy to break the One appears.... At least the speaker grills anyway.

Actually anyone who knows basic physics will dispute it. Chaos Theory dictates its impossible to predict how the phone will land after we let it drop so it's not perfectly legit. The video's results show that it is possible to break the speaker grill on the One but that doesn't mean it's gonna happen every time someone drops it. It's a random occurence. That's why you see people drop a phone from 6 ft and the phone is perfectly fine but someone else will drop it from 3 inches and the screen will be all cracked.

Btw, I'd be saying this no matter what phone we were talking about so your post tells me you don't think much before posting.

This is from me, on my EVO 3D.

 

[Air Force One]

Actually anyone who knows basic physics will dispute it. Chaos Theory dictates its impossible to predict how the phone will land after we let it drop so it's not perfectly legit. The video's results show that it is possible to break the speaker grill on the One but that doesn't mean it's gonna happen every time someone drops it. It's a random occurence. That's why you see people drop a phone from 6 ft and the phone is perfectly fine but someone else will drop it from 3 inches and the screen will be all cracked.

Btw, I'd be saying this no matter what phone we were talking about so your post tells me you don't think much before posting.

This is from me, on my EVO 3D.

Christ dude quit being so butthurt. Nobody ever claimed that the grill would break every time. But it is telling that it broke off the very first time. Now the screen shattering I would agree is pretty pointless as most screens will break if dropped face first. Anyway you can pretend the grill breaking is no big deal but you would be wrong.

 

[Air Force One]

And I'll even go one further, if even one person sees this video and decides to case their One and prevents this particular damage, then the video has served a purpose. Generally, if you drop a phone you have 6 spots the phone can land. One of four corners, the front and the back. So basically you have a 1 in 6 chance of hitting that corner if you drop it. I consider that significant. Now, you could always argue that there are ten spots it could hit if you include the top bottom and sides but that rarely happens. But even then it's still a 1 in 10 chance which is still significant.

Anyway I'm not really bashing the One. It is beautiful. I've owned HTC since the Nexus One, the Thunderbolt, Rezound and the DNA and if the One comes to Verizon I will buy it outright and run it against my Note2 and keep the one that is best. My gut tells me I will prefer the Note2. But I would be thrilled if the One is better. I have always loved Sense which is what keeps me coming back to try HTC. I've just been discouraged by the build quality lately and the grill popping off after one drop does not bode well. The best build quality that I have ever experienced was the Nexus One. Unfortunately HTC has never matched it, imo.

 

[adriandb]

After watching this vidgeo, I think it's clear as day that the HTC ONE does not have that exceptional build quality that's always touted.

Great build quality wouldn't have the phone falling to pieces like that nor be so dented.

Build quality and durability are not the same thing.

HTC is trying to become Apple with that...it seems all they care about now is money

All any electronics manufacturer cares about is money.

 

[adriandb]

A couple things occur to me after watching the video.

1) drop tests are stupid.
2) just because the speaker grill popped off on this test doesn't mean it will pop off for others even if the phone lands on the same corner in a similar fall.
3) because the body of the phone gave a little and the speaker grill popped off it likely saved the screen from cracking.

 

[smooth4lyfe]

A couple things occur to me after watching the video.

1) drop tests are stupid.
2) just because the speaker grill popped off on this test doesn't mean it will pop off for others even if the phone lands on the same corner in a similar fall.
3) because the body of the phone gave a little and the speaker grill popped off it likely saved the screen from cracking.

lol @ the 3rd comment....smh
Drop tests are not accurate, but it really does say a lot about how the phone was built...the HTC One did worst than I thought

 

[Russ Smith]

Just get insurance and buy the phone that feels nicest to hold and has the features you require.

Sent from my HTC One

 

[lou61166]

lol @ the 3rd comment....smh
Drop tests are not accurate, but it really does say a lot about how the phone was built...the HTC One did worst than I thought

And you know this without ever touching it,or did you drop test yourself on it,if i believed everything i read about products still not available i would never buy anything.

 

[Air Force One]

And you know this without ever touching it,or did you drop test yourself on it,if i believed everything i read about products still not available i would never buy anything.

Yet you don't bother to question the other guy about his belief that the grill popping off saved the screen from cracking. Too many fanboys around here. I wish you guys who only want to hear positive things would go make your own thread and leave the real discussion for the adults.

 

[adriandb]

Yet you don't bother to question the other guy about his belief that the grill popping off saved the screen from cracking. Too many fanboys around here. I wish you guys who only want to hear positive things would go make your own thread and leave the real discussion for the adults.

I'm not saying that's a good thing necessarily, but it might be if its a cheaper replacement. This is similar to Apple using glass that is more likely to break on the back of the 4/4s. Cheaper and easier to replace than the front glass that was glued to the screen.

 

[Sprucecycle]

No they are not stupid and they exactly demonstrate the most likely scenarios of a dropped phone.

Facts are that the smartphones we love with their gorgeous displays are fragile things it's the trade off we make when we put down the feature phones and the video illustrated that quite well.
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Just checked out some S2 drop test vids and wow S2 is really built well; hehe its speaker grill didn't fly off at the first hint of difficulty.

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[xtn]

And you know this without ever touching it,or did you drop test yourself on it,if i believed everything i read about products still not available i would never buy anything.

Um... I'm fairly certain he knows how good he thought the phone might do, and was able to compare those thoughts with the actual results shown in the video. I'm confidant most sane people could do this without having the phone themselves.

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[JHBThree]

lol @ the 3rd comment....smh
Drop tests are not accurate, but it really does say a lot about how the phone was built...the HTC One did worst than I thought

No, it doesn't. All it says is that physics is impossible for any object to escape. If you drop a phone, it will break.

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[xtn]

No, it doesn't. All it says is that physics is impossible for any object to escape. If you drop a phone, it will break.

My old Motorola StarTAC never broke, despite falling from my pocket while I was doing over a hundred and twenty miles per hour and bouncing down the highway for a hundred yards or so. Guy behind me saw it fall, slowed down, got it and brought it to me. A few little barely noticeable scratches in the black plastic were the only evidence.

If the ONE did have the grills machined as one piece with the unibody, and the ehile thing was a bit thicker, it probably would survive that waist-height drop with no problems. Heck, even if it had been glued better it might have stayed on.

It's annoying when people just make all encompassimg blanket statements as if there were no variables and no gray area. I like and want an HTC ONE, but please dont help me defend it with logic like making a durability or build quality aim, and then defending it by saying any phone will beak if you drop it. See the flaw? If any phone will break, then your claim of durability or build quality is kinda bunk.

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[barkomatic]

Build quality and durability are not the same thing.

I think you're splitting hairs here. It would have been better if the speaker grills were screwed or riveted into the back of the frame. Gluing metal onto plastic is not ideal and I could see this popping off over time even if the phone isn't dropped -- so in this case durability and build quality converge. Nevertheless, it took three drops before the screen cracked on the HTC One--and although the "tester" kept saying it was "luck" I tend not to think so. One drop is luck perhaps.

Anyway, more people are going to do drop tests I'm sure so we'll how consistent the results are.

 

[Topgonzo]

Really a thread about a video where some guy wants to drop his phone to see damage.......hmmmm let me think about it a second...
First off whether the speaker breaks off or it's a scratch any damage on my phone would make my ocd go bonkers..
How about we just try to not drop our phones? The body it's all one piece but being the speaker is the weakest area it makes sense it breaks off..

Sent from my amazing HTC ONE Quietly brilliant!

 

[bosshaug12]

That speaker grill popping off really has me worried.
Might end up actually getting a case for it.

 

[xtn]

What annoys me is that the picture of the "one piece chassis" HTC released has the speaker grills on it, implying that they are machined whole as part of it. The fact that they are poorly glued adds to the pain.

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[barkomatic]

Yes, I noticed that as well--a bit misleading. I'm not sure why everyone is saying its a "solid block of aluminum" when in fact its an aluminum back with plastic sandwiched in the middle with the metal parts on the other side glued on. All smartphone makers use glue by the way, including Apple, but its how they use it that matters. Sometimes you need glue, and other times its better to use screws or brackets.