Three times I think? Maybe four? Once quite forcefully: my wife has a hatchback and I couldn’t see well at night into the back of it, so I put on the flashlight of my new iPhone 6 and wedged it where the hatch meets the roof of the car. Of course, I forgot about it and tried to slam the thing shut three times before it dawned on me what had occurred. Oops.
The other times, I don’t remember. They were only like $100 fixes so I didn’t much care. All had an enclosure of some sort. It seems that when the phone falls perfectly flat onto the ground that it has the highest chance of cracking for me.
If it weren’t for my Otterbox case, I would doubtless have broken my phone in some way or other dozens of times by now (I’m pretty careless with it). Thank you, Otterbox!
I buy new iPhone models (well, okay, I’ve only owned two so far) based primarily on which model will fit into my existing Otterbox case, that’s how dependent I am on it.
Never. And I’ve had cell phones since the one mounted in my car with the antenna on the roof. Since they got small enough to carry around with me, I always have done so. Never had any kind of case, either.
I’ve never even slightly cracked my screen. My daughter dropped her phone from her top bunk when she was 14 or 15. there was a bit of splintering around the corner but the screen still worked and she never bothered us about getting her a new phone.
I’ve never broken my phone screen. But I didn’t vote, because I’m carrying a flip phone designed to be as unbreakable as reasonably possible: an older version of this.
I’ve had two cell phones quit working. In both cases there was something irrepairably wrong with the screen, but I don’t know what exactly happened to them or how. The screen wasn’t noticeably cracked or shattered, and in one case the phone was apparently fine when I plugged it in to charge the night before but mysteriously fubar the next morning. (Both were LGs and lasted a couple of years. My current phone, a Samsung, has been going strong for a little less than four years now.)
I’ve broken the screen of a tablet, but not a phone. My dad, however, broke his screen, got him a new phone, and then he broke that one within like a month–though it did have a screen protector.
It’s not like I’ve never dropped my phone. It just doesn’t land where it would it would break. Dad’s both landed on corners, which is why the case didn’t absorb it.
The tablet I had broke in a single crack, but then lost touch response for the lower half. Dad’s phones all shattered. I note the LCD seems to be fine on both, which was not the case on my tablet–there were black lines.
It seems weird to me that you can’t just replace the glass if it can break without shattering the actual screen.
Never for me but I’m the outlier with my wife, son and mother all having broken at least one screen. I think it’s actually two, three and one screen respectively.
Worst I’ve done was scratch a screen by sticking it in the same pocket as my keys. Oops. I have case on my phone but it’s a thin one more for texture than shock protection. Though not having a phone as slippery as a greased eel no doubt helps prevent me from dropping and breaking it.
Mom was in the hospital, and had a roof replacement scheduled for her house (I don’t do roofing anymore). The contractor pulled out his phone to show me something. The screen looked like a spider web. I suspect it had many a fall from roofs.
Yep. And if your hands get dry, well it’s real hard to hold. It’s why I use a holster that has a special case for it. The case itself is very easy to hold. It’s plastic around the phone, with rubber around the plastic.
I had a new, maybe 3 month old, Samsung and I dropped it in my kitchen. It bounced off the floor and destroyed the screen when it hit the bottom of the handle on the fridge.
Once. Learned my lesson and started using screen protectors. Since then I’ve broken one screen protector with no damage to the screen underneath. One or two additional drops with no damage at all.
Once, but only a little, while hiking the Appalachian Trail I had it in my pocket, no screen protector or case (I never use them with my iP4). It got a side half circle crack smaller than a half of a dime in the screen and really not an issue. I think it was from my treking pole adjuster striking it but not really sure. Since the iP4 as phones got bigger I use a case and screen protector and all is well.
Never broken one, but my current phone is kinda scratched up. I want to replace the phone and hope to do so within a few months (after spousal unit’s dental work is done and paid for) and I’ll get some sort of case or cover with the new phone.
Twice. Once, i had a phone that was incredibly slippery. And as i was walking down the street, reading my phone (as one does) it slipped out of my hands and fell into the brick sidewalk. I’d previously cracked the glass on the back of that phone when it slipped out of my hands in the bathroom and landed in the tile floor, when it was brand new.
I got the screen replaced, and then bought a “skin” for the thing so it wasn’t so slippery. I didn’t replace the back, i just covered it with the textured plastic sheet of the skin.
The other time was my current phone, and i forget what happened, but it got a small crack. Everything still worked, but it annoyed me, and besides, it was time for a new battery or a new phone, and i like the phone. So I got a new battery and a new screen.
Phones are already too big without putting a box around them. I sometimes buy a clear skin to cover the glass, and sometimes go naked, but i haven’t bought a case since i bought a really fancy one for a BlackBerry years ago, and never used it. And that was before phones got so damn large.
As you might gather from the first story, i carry my phone everywhere. And I’ve been carrying some gadget (it used to be a palm pilot. I didn’t get a gadget with “phone” capability until cell phones morphed into useable Internet devices, which is what i mostly care about) since the late 90s. So more than 25 years now. And i do drop them from time to time.They are pretty tough. I don’t feel the need for a case.
I’ve never broken a phone through clumsiness. But my previous phone, I was literally just taking it out of my pocket, and that somehow broke the screen. Which says to me that the screen was clearly defective (that phone was a piece of crap in multiple ways), but Verizon said that because the screen was defective, the entire warranty was voided.
I am kinda amazed the voting is so low. I have broken innumerable phone screens. Easily double figures. The life expectancy of a phone screen in my possession is maybe a year? That’s probably optimistic.
