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.]
Not my LG VX8300. It is a rock.
LG does make some good strong well engineered phones. The Samsung Galaxy S6's engineering flaw is that the power button is right smack in the middle, weakening the metal frame structure right where the fulcrum of any force will be greatest and it will bend and then break.
Of course, this could lead to an epidemic of people getting hit in the turbans by falling smartphones...
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