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iPhone 4 Survives Fall From Skydiver's Pocket
tripleevenfall sent in a link with a story that is sure to be the basis for the next iPhone 4 commercial. From the article: "Jarrod McKinney's iPhone 4 — a notoriously fragile device — cracked when his 2-year-old knocked it off a bathroom shelf. So it's easy to see why McKinney, a 37-year-old in Minnesota, would be 'just absolutely shocked' when that same phone survived a fall from his pocket — while he was skydiving from 13,500 feet."
trolls and all that, but... that's nice "a literal majority of the iphone 4 owners" you know: how many is that, one? I drop my phones all the time. Repeatedly. Often from about two meters. I have *never* had glass shatter on either a 3G or a 4. My work provided iPhone 3G is carried in a front pocket with keys. The back is scratched and pitted from damage, the glass is just fine.
My wife's 3G *did* have the glass spider spectacularly from a short fall. I should probably mention that was after two years of carrying it in a hip pocket which resulted in significant stress on the device every time she sat down. It seems probable that all of the accumulated stress had something to do with the glass shattering.
Notoriously fragile? To you, maybe, in your little world. Where I work everyone is provided with a smart phone, almost all of them are iPhones (even the Apple haters prefer them for some reason, only a few die-hard Microsoft lovers persist with Windows mobile, the majority of non-iPhone devices are Android). The Apple haters crowed about the supposed reception problems of the iPhone 4, but not a single one claims that the iPhone is "notoriously fragile".
Perhaps you should re-read the definition for "notorious"