Smashed Apple iPhone Still Worked In Emergency
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Posted on 05/01/2016 11:17:12 AM PDT by Swordmaker
Did Siri sound like she had a splitting headache?
Twilight Zone episode.
Cool story! Sometimes tech helps by being ever present, sometimes it will hurt.
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I’m glad the phone still allowed contact, but I was more interested in how the boy’s accident happened and if anyone else was injured. If Apple didn’t mind being savaged on Twitter for tastelessness, they could make a good commerical using this story. Names and dates changed to protect privacy.
Our mobile devices are wonderful for many things, but the cripple us when they fail. This kid could not remember ANY phone numbers to be able to call home in an emergency because he relied so much on his memory crutch of his mobile device to remember them for him. That is something we should ALL learn from this tale. The Moral of this story is DON’T rely on your iPhone or other mobile phone to remember your Emergency Contact Information. . . It just may not be there when you most need it! That phone may be smashed, lost, burned or otherwise just not available to make that call for you.
Thanks Swordmaker.
Stitches in the face typically means not wearing a seatbelt. My guess is his knee is what crushed the phone.
Nice story. Thanks.
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From the damage to the phone I would guess the accident victim was texting or talking on the phone when the accident occurred.
Now there is Apple’s potentially best commercial in a long time.
Use the real folks in the commercial too.
I love it when people talk about Apple products and how hifalutin they are, but there’s an Apple Store and a Microsoft store in the mall near me. Guess which one is almost always empty?
My first thought was that the kid was texting. . . but on second thought I realized it would be unlikely that if he had been, he would have been able to retain the iPhone in hand after an accident that damaged his face to the extent he needed ten stitches. That implies the accident involved a lot of force and the phone would have gone flying around the car. Most likely he was not wearing a seat belt to get such a facial injury with modern car design. Looking at the phone damage, it looks as if he may have been ejected from the car. . . With the phone. Locating a free flying phone would have been the last thing on his mind in the accident aftermath, especially locating a detached shattered screen. Keeping the detached screen with the iPhone means it was likely in his pocket.
I agree about the advertisement. . . It would show the robust construction of the iPhone and the utility of Siri.
He might have had his bell rung....
I suppose if the kid was texting or talking while driving, maybe not use the people, just focus on the phone working with this much damage.
Too bad many cant survive a fall into toilet water or a sink.
I’m guilty of not knowing phones numbers any more. I know a few but not many. My cell has me depending on it too much. I’m going to get a small phone note book as I use to have years ago. Do they still make them?
Technology at its best.
Get the small Rite in the rain notepad. Waterproof, mud proof, etc...
http://www.rainwriter.com/mobile/Product.aspx?ProductCode=RITR-373-M
Thanks..I threw mine away several years ago.
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