# Samsung Galaxy S8: Most Fragile Phone Ever Made

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [May 9, 2017, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/samsung-galaxy-s8-most-fragile-phone-ever-made/786214 "2017-05-09T18:36:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2017, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/samsung-galaxy-s8-most-fragile-phone-ever-made/786214/1 "2017-05-09T18:36:48Z")

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> Soon after its release, electronics insurance company SquareTrade put Samsung’s new flagship phone through its breakability test, a series of drops, dunks, and tumbles. It was deemed the most breakable phone of all time: “S8 is the first phone we’ve tested that’s cracked on the first drop on ALL sides,” SquareTrade wrote in a video demonstrating the drops.
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> There’s an obvious reason for this, of course. The S8 is made almost entirely of glass, and has barely any top or bottom bezel, which is why the phone is marketed as having an “infinity screen.”

> **[Repair Shops Are Stoked That the Samsung Galaxy S8 Is the Most Fragile Phone...](https://www.vice.com/en/article/kb4z5m/samsung-galaxy-s8-screen-replacement)**
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> Smartphone repair companies are expecting to fix a lot of those beautiful, cracked Infinity Screens.

Well people who can afford to spend almost $800 on this phone surely know better than to drop it.

And the battery won’t burst into flames!

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**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2017, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/samsung-galaxy-s8-most-fragile-phone-ever-made/786214/2 "2017-05-09T19:17:29Z")

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That’s one thing I really dislike. “Let’s make a phone extraordinarily beautiful, but make it out of materials so fragile you pretty much need to put it in a god-awful case to keep from breaking it!”

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**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2017, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/samsung-galaxy-s8-most-fragile-phone-ever-made/786214/3 "2017-05-09T19:51:05Z")

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> [@jz78817](#):
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> That’s one thing I really dislike. “Let’s make a phone extraordinarily beautiful, but make it out of materials so fragile you pretty much need to put it in a god-awful case to keep from breaking it!”

And that’s going to be the answer. Otterbox and the ilk will make a killing.