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iPhone 4 Drop Test: Outlook Not So Good

Categories: Apple, Hardware, iPhone
By: , IntoMobile
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010 at 11:43 PM

Prone to dropping your handsets? Maybe you even dropped your iPhone in the past and got lucky with no scratches or cracks? These iPhone drop test results might scare you into using some protection (ha!) or being a little more careful. We already know that the iPhone 4 has glass that is chemically strengthened, but it’s still glass and therefore still pretty damn fragile.

There were drop tests done on an iPhone 4 not too long ago which showed unfavorable results, but most complained that it wasn’t a final iPhone and that it was missing some critical internal components. Well, the video below is the Apple smartphone as you would find it right out of the Apple Store, and it is dropped a few times just to show how bad the damage can be. Word to the wise: be extremely careful or just buy a proper case for your iPhone if you care about it or the dough you’d have to fork over to replace it.

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Marc Flores

Marc has been a mobile fanatic for the better part of a decade and has had more devices pass through his hands than he would care to count. Originally from Los Angeles and briefly in San Francisco, Marc now lives in Brooklyn where, unlike Will Park, he longs for simpler times and simpler technology. All the while, he writes about gadgets and wireless technology as he tinkers, hacks and ultimately breaks most of his gadgets in the process. Marc has written about the mobile industry for Boy Genius Report, MobileCrunch, Laptop Magazine and has had his work appear in the Wall Street Journal, Gizmodo, CrunchGear and more.

  • ultitool

    Perhaps it was wind damage that broke the phone? Jeebus thats a lot of wind noise. No way you guys could do your test inside and save my ear drums?

  • Joey Angel

    cool!!!! I hope you bought 2

  • SMARTGUY

    Any smart fone with glass on it will break if you buy a good case it would not have broken….

  • Chad

    Just the front glass broke? That looks pretty good to me. I dropped my 3G many times before it actually cracked the screen and I wasn’t using any case. But like the previous post any phones glass will break when you drop it. It’s glass…

  • On

    If you drop your phone on concrete 4-5 times you deserve to have it break, idiot

  • Featherfacdfreak

    can you do an experiment with a leather cover?

  • word

    its ironic it took 4 times