Nice phone... but how does it respond to being dropped?
In a constant battle against the evil forces of gravity (and paranoia), whenever I am moving about with my ip3g, I am always seeking to avoid a situation where it makes contact with the floor, and inevitably comes off worse. Yep, I’m talking about dropping it.
You see, having dropped a few mobile devices in my time – and these were ones that I really wanted to keep in A1 condition – so I have the feeling that if the ip3g is dropped (say on an outside surface), it’s going to scratch REALLY badly.
My reasons for thinking this are:
- large screen area – screen are notorious for scratching
- large shiny rear surface – that will show up scratches easily
- rounded edges – look particularly bad after damage/scratches occur
So I throwing it out there – has anyone dropped their ip3g and would like to share what happened to it? Interestingly, I’ve seen an ip2g that was dropped, and even with it’s metal back, the impact scratched the case, but more importantly, cracked the glass screen – must have been a decent impact !!
Of course, the logical thing here is to use a case, and I quite agree that would be an option – however, there’s something slightly ironic about covering up the design-centric ip3g with a hulking great case – and at any rate, I’ve yet to see a good one!
[Image via: Apple]