Nexus 5 drop test: will it survive?

2. KickRocks (Posts: 181; Member since: 22 Mar 2011)

Damn, that hurts to watch.....................Oh well, still loving mine

3. Piotrek007 (Posts: 112; Member since: 07 Dec 2010)

The fact that at the end this screen was actually working, is really impressive !! o.0

4. .KRATOS. (Posts: 386; Member since: 15 Mar 2013)

It looks that gorilla glass 3 quite durable it haven't skipped any drop without breaking.

5. danwatson (Posts: 117; Member since: 03 Jan 2012)

So much for the improvements in gorilla glass. You still break the screen when dropping it so I really don't see what all the hype is. The only thing Gorilla glass seems to stop is small scratches while in your pocket...maybe. Other than that, the screen busts up just like it did before the company existed.

6. ArtSim98 (Posts: 3535; Member since: 21 Dec 2012)

I was surprised by the holes it got into the front

7. InspectorGadget80 (unregistered)

Man this guy is a idiot for dropping phones

8. ihavenoname (Posts: 1693; Member since: 18 Aug 2013)

I accidentally dropped my S4 Mini (with GG 2) glass down to the tarmac and it was all fine, no signs of dropping. Why GG 3 can't stand the drop?

10. daniel_bargs (Posts: 325; Member since: 27 Nov 2010)

Gorilla Glass is a scam! Bragging their glass can withstand a thousand pounds of force using a machine... but this real life scenario, its magic or trickery is not working.

11. Planterz (Posts: 2110; Member since: 30 Apr 2012)

Unless it's designed and advertized as a rugged phone, there's no effing point in drop tests. They'll all fail. Survival is a matter of luck, no more. Thin bezels and protruding glass increase the chances of failure, of course, but with the right (or wrong, rather) set of circumstances, the screen will crack or shatter from a drop.

Buy a decent case like an Otterbox, and at least you can reduce those chances, but drop it enough times, and eventually it'll break.

13. Ravens (Posts: 7; Member since: 07 Nov 2013)

I'm actually really surprised, because my lg optimus 2x with gorilla glass 2 live on today. Heck I even tell people I don't care if I drop my phone (then I proceed to drop it in front of them).

17. improv (Posts: 96; Member since: 09 Sep 2013)

I've never dropped my phone from making a call or texting but I have dropped it a couple times from just carelessness of how I'm getting my phone out of my pocket and where I've placed my phone. I had an iPhone 4S (glass front and glass back) that survived well for the past 2 years but recently (right after I bought my nexus 5, lol), it slid off my lap while I was sitting down and the front screen got the familiar webbed design. Because of this, I welcome the nexus 5's backplate because it probably has more friction than my lap :D. I'll probably be taking better care of it though...

18. Augustine (Posts: 1043; Member since: 28 Sep 2013)

Excuse me, it seems that I have something in my eye...

19. Klamba92 (Posts: 210; Member since: 25 Jun 2012)

What is the point of these drop tests all these phones are fragile and are going to break crack once dropped! This will be good once once we have bendable displays! Also has anyone else noticed that each year the phones get worse? I mean the galaxy s2 faired the best but gs3 and 4 did worse and they supposedly had better glass!

22. Evil_SaNz (Posts: 259; Member since: 20 Oct 2011)

Rabbit Glass

27. RORYREVOLUTION (Posts: 3117; Member since: 12 Jan 2010)

I don't get it, my Motorola Droid X survived fall after fall, my near 300 pound drunken friend accidently stomping on it with steel toe boots on and it had first gen GGlass and yet after all these years they have somehow made it worse.