Apple iPhone 4 falls 13,500 feet; lives to take and make calls
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The phone was found on top of a building a good half-mile away from where he safely landed with his parachute. McKinney used a GPS tracking app to find the phone. Watching from the ground as McKinney claimed his wounded device on the roof was instructor Joe Johnson who thought it might be funny to try to attempt calling the iPhone. And to everyone's surprise, the phone started vibrating in McKinney's hand.
Consumer Reports tech editor Mike Gikas joked that McKinney had solved the attenagate problem (aka the left-handed death grip), that plagued the phone when it was first launched, by dropping it from a plane. Gikas added that a cell phone can survive a major fall but water damage is more likely to be fatal to a handset.
McKinney plans on getting the phone's damaged screen repaired. While it still makes and takes calls, the shattered touchscreen means he must use a Bluetooth connection to make a call. Skydiving instructor Johnson was so impressed with the durability of the Apple iPhone 4, he plans on getting one himself. He says it's nice to know that if he crashes with the iPhone on him, the GPS could still lead rescuers to his location.
As for why the skydiving McKinney would be leaving his iPhone in his pocket while jumping from a plane, it seems that many jumpers do this and use the camera on the phone to record video of a jump. Some also use it to call to get picked up if their landing is off track.
This still doesn't answer the question of why McKinney's Apple iPhone 4 can survive a drop from 13,500 feet and others find their device totally worthless after a short drop on a carpet.
source: CNNiReport via AppleInsider
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1. N.Reynolds posted on 18 Jul 2011, 22:56 15 5
Alright I usually keep my mouth shut about stupid articles being posted on here but come on! I feel like this is the 4th time I've seen pretty much the same article. This is ridiculous I dont care about an iPhone falling and still working.
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4. luis_lopez_351 posted on 18 Jul 2011, 23:09 0 1
What? should we applaud or feel bad that phone arena gets paid to do this?
5. 530gemini posted on 18 Jul 2011, 23:09 3 10
I won't be surprised if I read an article tomorrow of an android phone falling from the sky, lol. They seem to copy everything about the iPhone. Even news articles about the iPhone.
God forbid, but it's nice to know that I have the iPhone and that's it's a durable phone that can survive a crash, that way I can be located.
9. BobbyTaba posted on 19 Jul 2011, 00:41 7 3
android went to space first I bet apple is gonna copy that
14. Sniggly posted on 19 Jul 2011, 03:05 3 1
Surviving a car crash where there's outside concussive force is quote a different thing than a 6 oz phone falling by itself at terminal velocity onto grass or something. So is dropping it from five feet onto a semi hard floor.
Anyway, you won't actually hear an article like this about Android anytime soon, because Android users generally aren't big enough retards to take their smartphones skydiving, or even put them in a safe inside pocket that they won't fall out of. :)
19. remixfa posted on 19 Jul 2011, 07:07 3 1
Lol, ive gone skydiving with my GalaxyS. But its in a zippered pocket that doesnt easily open. Only an iTard would leave it so easily accessable. This is however like the 3rd or 4th story like this so either PA is just showing its normal pro apple stance, or there is a lot of iTards that dont know how to keep the phone on them.
BTW, just about any phone will survive a long drop. If the screen survives is a different story, but 9/10 will still be able to ring and prove to be functional. Its not that big of a deal.
30. taco50 posted on 19 Jul 2011, 11:23 1 2
Looks like we found a retard
31. Sniggly posted on 19 Jul 2011, 11:49 2 1
Nope, sorry. He's smart enough to keep his phone in a zippered pocket.
34. The_Miz posted on 19 Jul 2011, 21:09 0 0
Nope, Android users are too busy whining and crying because iOS outsells their precious devices 10:1 day in/out. It's amazing how much hypocrisy is shown here. Had this been an article about an Android device, which would never happen because most android devices are poorly built, you guys would be swarming this article talking about oh you agree and all of that lol.
Too bad Apple knows how to build their phones right.
37. jacko (unregistered) posted on 20 Jul 2011, 00:15 0 0
outselling android i guess u didn't go to school read back storys about android outselling ijunk
only a knob would buy a phone that apple wants you to have and a s**t one at that and bring out 1 or 2 new things every year coz steve headjob knows that isheep will buy it
he can crap in a bag and call it magical and isheep would buy it
with android i like buying a phone i want
