Stupid, fragile fucking android phone! :mad: I dropped it, trying to take a goddamn picture of my dog, from the height of about two feet, and CRACK! There goes the screen! :mad: :smack:
I had my cheap-ass Tracfone for about 15 years, never had a problem, dropped it all the time (well, not really. Almost never used the thing), never had a problem. Then, it gets outdated, and I’m forced to get a new, fancy fucker that I can’t even figure out how to use most of the time. And it has a stupid camera. So, what do I do? Start taking fucking pictures!
And I drop it, and it breaks, all for nothing! A picture of my dog. :rolleyes:
Now, I almost never use this thing, and it’s importance in my life ranks up there with say, a worn-out set of used golf clubs. But how do you hipsters and kids that can’t live without them glued to their heads and are constantly beating your thumbs on them deal with this fragility? You people must go through these like shit through a Goose!
I guess I understand now so many of these fuckers are being sold.
Goddamn dog picture!
(It would have been Awesome! It was Dixie, sitting in almost the exact same spot, the exact same way as when she was just a tiny puppy!)
I usually break one phone per year. I’m pretty abusive towards them. If it didn’t have a case and tempered glass on them I’d probably break it every couple months. The tempered glass gets replaced every 4-6 months.
In my case paying for insurance has always worked in my favor.
I put a tempered glass film on mine and it keeps the screen itself from breaking.
To back up kaylasdad, is the screen cracked or is it busted open and wrecked or ?? You can keep using the blasted things with all kinds of cracks and damage.
Screen protectors do tend to stop the glass from breaking too easily. My iPad has fallen off my upright dresser at least a half-dozen times and never broken. I dropped my iPhone earlier this week onto a asphalt walking path and it didn’t break (thank you GOD!).
I’ve never been unlucky enough to drop my phone. If I do, my screen is Gorilla Glass, which is supposed to be break-resistant. And I keep it in a case, which makes it less likely to slip out of my hands and hopefully will protect it.
This is what I was going to say. Most phones can survive a drop or three no problem…unless they hit on a corner (or edge). Unless you have one of those cases which makes the phone 3x* larger, a corner hit will spell D-O-O-M for most screens.
*Yeah, anything less than 3x and your still doomed. Even 2.95x. So make sure you get the right one!
I’ve kept all of my BlackBerries* in a leather case. I’m on my 5th or 6th one now. I can’t imagine carrying around a phone with its glass screen exposed. :eek:
That was something I liked about my flip phone-- screen and keyboard protected.
I think it’s a matter of bad luck. I’ve had iPhones for eight or nine years now, and never used a case, and have dropped it countless times from all sorts of heights, as my kids have as well. There’s apparently a dent in the phone my brother noticed that I didn’t even realized we’re there. No idea how it got there. But I did once manage to break the glass, and it was from a small fall of about two feet, sitting down at a chair.
My sympathies. The only phone I ever broke that way, was a work phone that I dropped several times in the street with no problems… But then one day when I bent down to grab something on my way into a USMC office, from a height of about two feet, the phone slid out and landed on a two-inch thick rubber mat. Cracked the screen thoroughly.
Must be that rubber is more dangerous than we thought. I just taped it up as well, since my boss expected me to pay for a new screen.
I’ve had Samsung smartphones since S3 and have dropped phones countless times and only once several years ago chipped the edge of the glass, no crack, though. Fortunately, I had insurance and the glass was replaced at no charge to me. Since then, I always insure my new phones until they are paid off and I use a protective case. But then I’m very active with my phone and use it while cycling and backpacking, so a protective case is a must. Once, my phone fell off my bike while I was moving and bounce in the street with no damage whatsoever except a couple of scuffs on the rear-only protection case (like this one) . I do prefer LifeProof FRĒ cases, though.
Mrs. Cretin dropped her Samsung Galaxy onto a concrete floor, put a monster crack across the screen. A few months later I did exactly the same thing with my Galaxy, rendered my screen unreadable.
Lessons learned, we put tempered glass screen protectors on our new phones. Since then, Mrs. C hasn’t had another mishap, but I’ve managed again to drop my phone onto concrete from shoulder height, twice. Both times the $30 screen protector was cracked but the phone was undamaged.
