iPhone 4 Screen Durability

2012-02-03 02:16:33 am

I posted this in another forum I frequent but feel like it's decent enough to repost.

So after replacing the screen on my iPhone 4 with another one... I was curious. How difficult is it to actually break the glass on an iPhone 4? I had to test it out.

Here's the result of all my trials. I was incredibly impressed to be honest, I absolutely whaled on the screen with the handle end of a screwdriver (moulded plastic, hard as a rock) and it didn't even scratch the screen. Of course that had me wondering what the ACTUAL fuck some people had to do to break the screen so I turned the screwdriver around and NAILED it with the sharp end...

Nothing. The portion of the screen which I had hit even exhibited the very faintest scratch.

What the fuck Apple? What did these people do to their poor phones to damage it so terribly?

I took another stab at it and put my full force into it. Finally this poor tortured screen gave way.

My conclusion? Whoever manages to break their screen? It's entirely their own damn fault.

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I posted this in another forum I frequent but feel like it's decent enough to repost.

So after replacing the screen on my iPhone 4 with another one... I was curious. How difficult is it to actually break the glass on an iPhone 4? I had to test it out.

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Here's the result of all my trials. I was incredibly impressed to be honest, I absolutely whaled on the screen with the handle end of a screwdriver (moulded plastic, hard as a rock) and it [u]didn't even scratch the screen.[/u] Of course that had me wondering what the ACTUAL fuck some people had to do to break the screen so I turned the screwdriver around and NAILED it with the sharp end...

Nothing. [url=http://i.imgur.com/ZeJ4k.jpg]The portion of the screen which I had hit even exhibited the very faintest scratch.[/url]

What the fuck Apple? What did these people do to their poor phones to damage it so terribly?

I took another stab at it and put my full force into it. Finally this poor tortured screen gave way.

My conclusion? Whoever manages to break their screen? It's entirely their own damn fault.

arkarian

2012-02-03 02:22:15 am

red chamber dream

gorilla glass ftw. apple didn't commision the design of an entirely new type of glass for nothing.

think most breaks are caused by dropping it from a height where it lands on its side which i guess is an angle more prone to breaking? dunno

Baby Sheegoth

2012-02-03 02:23:42 am

Quote from arkarian:

gorilla glass ftw. apple didn't commision the design of an entirely new type of glass for nothing.

think most breaks are caused by dropping it from a height where it lands on its side which i guess is an angle more prone to breaking? dunno

Either that or dropping it onto an awkward elevation i.e. a rock right in the centre of the screen.
Which still boggles me, because like I said, I swung the shit out of the phillips end of a screwdriver at it and it stood up to it...

arkarian

2012-02-03 02:25:05 am

red chamber dream

sounds like fun.

TheGreenManalishi

2012-02-03 06:00:22 am

Does the iPhone 4 have tougher glass than other models/Touches? I tried replacing my aunt's 3GS screen for her and she'd only dropped it on a tiled floor. It wasn't too bad a break either, I think ark's point about the angle is on the money. Something physicsy.

tomatobob

2012-02-03 06:04:00 am

One shall stand, one shall ball.

Maybe the force of the impact just doesn't distribute as well from a side on hit. Doesn't give quite as much from that angle or something.

Baby Sheegoth

2012-02-03 10:46:49 am

I don't know. I've dropped my phone from ball-clenching heights without a case before on its' side and the worst the happened was I scuffed up the stainless steel band a little bit. I think it's like 70% shit luck.

BioSpark

2012-02-03 11:17:46 am

my friend once dropped his phone off of a lofted bed onto a hard tile floor and nothing happened. then later he dropped it from his hand onto carpet and it stopped working.

arkarian

2012-02-03 11:51:07 am

red chamber dream

lolphones

Baby Sheegoth

2012-02-03 03:38:44 pm

Yeah I believe it, phones are unbelievably bipolar.