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Repair Shops Are Stoked That the Samsung Galaxy S8 Is the Most Fragile Phone Ever Made (vice.com)

Posted by msmash on from the on-the-flip-side dept.

Smartphone repair companies are expecting to fix a lot of those beautiful, cracked Infinity Screens, the headline feature of the Samsung Galaxy S8. From a report on Motherboard: The Samsung Galaxy S8 is expensive, popular, and fragile. Its parts can also be sourced relatively inexpensively, which means that third party repair companies are salivating over the prospect of you fumbling the phone and bringing it to them for a screen repair. "The price point is good, the repairability is there," Justin Carroll, owner of the Richmond, Virginia-based Fruit Fixed smartphone repair shop told me. "Durability-wise, it's definitely going to break, no question about that." Soon after its release, electronics insurance company SquareTrade put Samsung's new flagship phone through its breakability test, a series of drops, dunks, and tumbles. It was deemed the most breakable phone of all time: "S8 is the first phone we've tested that's cracked on the first drop on ALL sides," SquareTrade wrote in a video demonstrating the drops.There's an obvious reason for this, of course. The S8 is made almost entirely of glass, and has barely any top or bottom bezel, which is why the phone is marketed as having an "infinity screen."

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  1. Re:I laugh at smart phone fragility by dreamchaser · · Score: 4, Funny

    It is almost like different people have different use cases!

  2. Re:C'mon by DontBeAMoran · · Score: 5, Funny

    I received my Otterbox Defender for the GS8+ two weeks before I got the phone. I've dropped it several times with no problems.

    That's good to know your Otterbox Defender survived several drops with no problems. But what about your GS8+?

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  3. Re:I laugh at smart phone fragility by DickBreath · · Score: 3, Funny

    My original Motorola RAZR is still going strong and I pretty well drop it onto a hard surface every other week.

    Some say you can throw a classic Nokia 3310 at a brick wall and it will be undamaged.
    But it's not true. There are known cases of damage where you can see chips or nicks in the brick wall.

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  4. Re:C'mon by OrangeTide · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's just a hobby right now. We hope it goes viral and brings a lot of viewers to our YouTube channel.

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