Just use a case and screen protector next time. I always do. I’ve dropped my phones more times than I could count, including on concrete. I have yet to break one. (I’ve cracked the screen protector a couple of times though.)
I got a crack in the glass of my first smart phone ever only a couple of days after I got it. I hurried out of work and elegantly let it slip into the inner pocket of my jacket. Except I missed the pocket. Bang. It felt so weird it was difficult to understand what just had happened.
*BlackBerry[sup][sup]TM[/sup][/sup] Brand Cellular Telephones.
As a couple have said and I’ve personally experienced, most modern phones can take a few drops fine as long as they don’t land sharply on the edge or especially the corner. It’s not the drop, it is how and where the phone impacts the surface.
But a case + screen protector can usually save the phone even if it lands on the corner.
I got my first smartphone, a LG G2, two and a half years ago. Bought a protective case which I’ve barely every used since it makes the phone too bulky in my pocket. Have dropped it from 4-5 feet two or three times but lucked out on how it’s landed.
When it happened to me, the only thing the screen protector did was allow me to use the phone with the spiderweb of cracks across the face of the phone. My case, though, was not designed to be impact resistant. I have seen the cases with extra padding on the corners, but I still like to pocket my phone and those cases effectively double the thickness of the phone.
I think it all depends on how it falls and the case it’s in. Face-down with no case onto a hard surface seems to be a killer, as does hitting on the corner without a sufficient case on it. Personally I’ve dropped my Galaxy S4 down a flight of hardwood stairs with no damage. I thought for sure it would be dead. It was in a case like this with a rubberized sleeve covered by a plastic frame, so it had rubber and plastic to pad it: https://www.androidcentral.com/sites/androidcentral.com/files/styles/xlarge/public/postimages/444537/seidio-active-galaxy-note-2-11.jpg
For me, I think it’s the corner hit that did me in. I’ve dropped my phone face down onto concrete several times from about 5 1/2 feet with no issue. But that one freak fall from my pocket onto a wood floor ruined the glass.
While I don’t measure my drops (or drop too often), it was the same. One fall, maybe 3 feet, landing on the phone’s lower right corner, and it was spiderweb city. No other issues. I used the phone for a few months like that because it had a screen protector and that kept everything in place and the surface smooth.
Looks like a good case. I have a similar one for my BLU R1 HD.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B06X3ZXQQJ/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Must have been 'cause it landed on the corner. 
This thread proves we can debate anything.
skritches to the puppehs!
Well, I don’t measure them, either, but it’s pretty easy to estimate. I’m about six feet tall, and I’ve dropped the phone while holding it up to read it. Ergo, about 5 and a half feet (probably more).
The one time my tablet dropped and broke a corner, it didn’t touch the screen at all. It was wet, though, so water got inside, and that wound up ruining my power button. But I installed an app that lets me wake the thing up with the volume buttons. The battery takes a hit, but I find myself still using it more than the new one I got to replace it (which I can’t get YouTube to realize is a tablet, not a phone.)
Hey, did I tell you that Ted took a shit in my wife’s shoe? At least it* looked* like one of Ted’s…
My specialty was dropping phones in toilets. Now that phones are mostly waterproof I’ve somehow managed to stop doing it, but I’ve cracked the glass on my last three or four. I’m particularly proud that I was able to crack the Gorilla Glass on the front and back of the Sony Xperia Z3* I had two phones ago with a single drop.
*That thing was a complete piece of shit. The screen began detaching itself from the bezel within a few days of purchase.
[Hijack]
I used to work for one of the UK’s mobile networks. After a heated debate, we asked RIM (the company which made the BlackBerry phones) what the correct plural was.
They supplied a definitive answer:
BlackBerry Internet Devices
[/Hijack]