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CES, Reporter Breaks "Unbreakable" Mobile Phone
ChiefMonkeyGrinder writes "Reporter Dan Simmons from the BBC's technology show Click managed to break a mobile phone marketed as 'unbreakable' (video), during a demonstration at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas." The phone can survive a 10 story fall, being submerged 20 feet for 30 mins, and you can use it to hammer a nail; but it's no match for a British journalist.
He just smashes the screen against the corner of the fish tank that he just failed to drown it in. Not being covered in rubber like the rest of the phone, it breaks like any normal screen. You could probably apply the same pressure by accidentally dropping it on a jagged rock.
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Damn, my RAM is full of llamas.
From TFV... the screen still worked - it is just that he apparently cracked it.
Not that you could actually tell from the video.
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
Somebody tell me what nationality the phone is!
Apparently, USA-ian.
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
More specifically, he beats the phone on the corner of the metal frame of the aquarium, where the metal comes to a point. Which cracked the display.
Not only do those explode quite spectacularly, but the shards are amazingly sharp. I don't envy the person who had to clean up that mess.