• Shard@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    I feel like the parts separating had a lot to do with saving the phone as a whole. It must be absorbing and dissipating some of that energy from the fall rather than all that energy being directed into the phone when it stays together.

    I remember my old phones would fly apart from a fall but they’d never suffer any meaningful damage.

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      5 months ago

      Also the phones were all plastic, soft and bouncy.

      Compare that to a new glass box with a metal frame

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        5 months ago

        Yeah, I think that combined with the explodey factor really saved a lot of my mom’s phones back in the day. In the absolute worst case scenario, there’d maybe be a bit of the corner gouged out if she dropped it on the road or something, but that kind of damage doesn’t spread and you don’t end up with glass shards in your finger if you try to use the phone anyway. Now I’ve gotta practically wrap the thing in bubble wrap to keep it working if it drops