Posted on 04/15/2015 5:32:57 PM PDT by Swordmaker
“Photographer Catalin Marin was taking photos of Dubai’s sunrise from the top of a building when he accidentally dropped his iPhone from the roof—and the device captured its entire 40 story plunge on video,” Reem Nasr reports for CNBC.
“Amazingly the phone was without a scratch and on top of everything it captured the whole fall on video as I was filming at the moment I dropped it,” Marin wrote in a blog post,” Nasr reports.
Read more in the full article here.
Catalin Marin writes, “Unfortunately the shoot was cut unexpectedly short when I managed to drop my phone from the roof all the way to the ground (40 stories) and I had to go find it! Amazingly the phone was without a scratch and on top of everything it captured the whole fall on video as I was filming at the moment I dropped it.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Do not try this at home, but Apple build quality!
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Edward W.” for the heads up.]
Nice.... been looking for a case for my new 6 ......thanks
He sure does. Timex baby!!!
Someone needs to add a voiceover for this of Siri screaming the whole way.
Then at the end.... ouch.
I got two iPhone 5s for my daughters. One of my daughters like to bake, read and act—let’s just say she’s not physically demanding on her phone. Her phone broke twice within the first couple of months—main screen—from minor drops.
My other daughter is a skater who’s hair color changes more often than the weather. She is on the run constantly, bruised and scraped up. Her phone looks like a prop from one of those post-apocolyptic series, but it has never broken. Go figure—sasme phone, same day. Random chance...
I heard these new iphones are supposed to have super tough gorilla glass, shatter proof.
Check eBay, too — some bargains on there!
I was thinking the same thing.
Actually he never claims that the phone still works, just that it was unscratched. I say the phone is dead.
Thanks I’ll check it out, it certainly beats having to buy anew iPad
None of the are exclusively limited to Apple except the internal custom chips designed and owned by Apple. However Apple is the first to use Gorilla Glass as a screen material (first to use glass at all), first to use machined Aircraft aluminum for frames,
There is only one material that Apple has access to that no one else can duplicate but Apple has, for some reason, probably economic, they have not used it. It is a killer material In any ways. That is Liquid Metal technology for Consumer Electronics. Apple hold the patent rights to the use of all Liquid Metal technology in consumer electronics. With LM, one can literally pressure mould or extrude alloys of metal that are lighter and stronger than machined metal with the benefits of close to finish accuracy including moulded in threads, screws, etc. All that is necessary with LM is final finishing. Parts made with LM technology can literally be one-third as thick and as light for the same strength. This opens up more internal space inside the same external dimensions. For some reason, even thought Apple has owned the rights to this technology since 2009, the only use they've made of it has been the little tool to open the tray for the micro-Simcard that ships with every iOS device..
There is a limit to the forces the strength of materials can withstand. . . however the engineering that goes into an Apple device makes them stronger than other makers devices. SquareTrade just tested the Samsung Galaxy S6 and HTC ONE M9 for the "Bends" that FUD spreaders made such a big deal about when the iPhone 6plus came out, only to find out that Apple had only nine iPhones 6plus models returned for being bent, all showing signs of being deliberately bent by people trying to bend them because of the YouTube video. SquareTrade found that both the Samsung and the new HTC ONE M9 flagship model smartphones bent at about the same amount of applied physical force (~120 Lbs) as the iPhone 6plus, but that both of the competitor's phones took on a permanent bend, and then broke and shattered far sooner than did the iPhone 6plus because of poor engineer decisions.
Can the fall be duplicated to arrive at the same results? Who knows.
Nothing is shatter proof. You can shatter a diamond under the right conditions. I have seen one shatter. Hardness and brittleness are not the same thing.
They need tail fins to stop that spinning.
I apparently put my iPhone in the washing machine and did not notice it gone until the tub was almost filled with water. It drowned.
I drove right to the Apple Store in minutes and, to my great surprise, they gave me a new one and transferred all of my contents over.
Happy!
I was thinking one could duplicate the fall with better video by attaching the iPhone to a tail. . . kite like streamer but wide enough to keep it from spinning too rapidly and keep the orientation toward one direction. The iPhone would act as the weight at the bottom, while stiff tail streamer would act like a sail, stabilizing it while not necessarily slowing the fall.
I am not going to try this at home.
If it’s too slow it might be knocked down by a stick swinging chimpanzee.
Me too and thanks for allowing me to live in your head for a moment. Think what you like and thanks for taking time from your life to comment on mine.A very liberal trait. I trust your remarks about me help reinforce the superior and goody two shoes view you an those like you have of your self. Your post(s)show you are a condescending know-it-all,but you and those around you already know that. **********************************************************************************
You never answered my Apple "queery"..... How many cats did the liberals at the "i cult" drop to determine the trajectory of a self righting phone?
To be polite....color me dubious.
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