How the hell do people manage to break their phones?

[Chief]

This was my general cry when I saw someone with a cracked phone screen.

I've never broken a phone in 25 odd years of owning mobile phones. It seemed like something only a child would do.

Then yesterday arvo I am rolling the wheelie bin in off the curb and my phone fell through a hole in the pocket of my painting shorts and hit the concrete. Then I rolled over it with the wheelie bin.

RIP phone

Then again, I get to upgrade my iPhone 5 today

 

[blackshadow]

The only one I've killed was by going for a swim with my phone in my pocket.

I've had a mobile since 1995 and that's the only casualty. Never had a cracked screen and have certainly dropped phones more times than I can recall.

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[Quivorir]

Have cracked two screens in my life.

One was years ago when the phone was just 2 days from retirement, so it wasn't a huge deal.

I got a new phone last month and was using it as a light when changing a tyre the other day. As I was putting the wheel on I heard a scraping, assumed it was the wheel against the concrete. Turns out it was the wheel against my phone driving my screen into the concrete. So now I nice scratches and a small crack in the top corner.

 

[MrsEddieBetts]

My brother dropped one in the gap between the elevator and the floor

 

[Gough]

I dropped my Moto Razr into a cup of tea and once it dried out it worked perfectly.

 

[Roobs321]

I had 2 phones from 2004-2017. Been lucky. Maybe 2-3 fortunate/low drops on concrete/bitumen in that time, otherwise carpet/lino.

Had siblings that regularly lost phones or forgot it was in their pocket when they went swimming.

 

[Gralin]

so far I have cracked one screen
fell off my knee onto tiles and landed the wrong way
kept that phone for another two years though as it still worked

since then I've had cases

 

[MrsEddieBetts]

I dropped my Moto Razr into a cup of tea and once it dried out it worked perfectly.

Bloody loved my moto razr

 

[raskolnikov]

Mine's got cracks galore and it's not even that old.

 

[Thegibbsgamble]

This was my general cry when I saw someone with a cracked phone screen.

I've never broken a phone in 25 odd years of owning mobile phones. It seemed like something only a child would do.

Then yesterday arvo I am rolling the wheelie bin in off the curb and my phone fell through a hole in the pocket of my painting shorts and hit the concrete. Then I rolled over it with the wheelie bin.

RIP phone

Then again, I get to upgrade my iPhone 5 today

But you sit at a desk all day appeasing your advertisers.

Under those conditions I'd agree with you lol

 

[craigos]

This was my general cry when I saw someone with a cracked phone screen.

I've never broken a phone in 25 odd years of owning mobile phones. It seemed like something only a child would do.

Then yesterday arvo I am rolling the wheelie bin in off the curb and my phone fell through a hole in the pocket of my painting shorts and hit the concrete. Then I rolled over it with the wheelie bin.

RIP phone

Then again, I get to upgrade my iPhone 5 today

Like all your other pants don't have holes in the pocket. Pervert.

 

[Chief]

Like all your other pants don't have holes in the pocket. Pervert.

No I just always wear my painting shorts around the place. Same benefits.

 

[craigos]

No I just always wear my painting shorts around the place. Same benefits.

Hides the stains, I get ya.

 

[TheKanga]

Put mine on the roof of my car and drove off.

Cracked but still works lol

 

[Chief]

How do people use these big screen phones? I have 2 weeks to decide if it does the job, but how do people carry these things in their pockets?

 

[GROTTO]

How do people use these big screen phones? I have 2 weeks to decide if it does the job, but how do people carry these things in their pockets?

https://www.jbhifi.com.au/cygnett/c...ss-screen-protector-for-iphone-8-plus/498632/

Think of it like a condom for your phone. It does work though.

Many people who drop their phone will only crack the screen protector and not the phone screen so its worth the price.

 

[GreyCrow]

How do people use these big screen phones? I have 2 weeks to decide if it does the job, but how do people carry these things in their pockets?

Yep. Pain. Got an OPPO up from a Huawei and just the size difference sitting in the top pocket is crazy. My OPPO is too top heavy so it can fall out. Sits on the ground nearby or up out of tools harm.

But general use is OK. Not sure if I will go bigger

 

[Chief]

Yep. Pain. Got an OPPO up from a Huawei and just the size difference sitting in the top pocket is crazy. My OPPO is too top heavy so it can fall out. Sits on the ground nearby or up out of tools harm.

But general use is OK. Not sure if I will go bigger

Watching the footy on my iPhone 5s was almost pointless.

 

[Silent Alarm]

One night I went out til the HJs on Swanston / Flinders weren't serving burgers and chips. Me and a mate walked over the bridge via the little floating dock thing down near Flinders Street Station, just through the tunnel. Got to his front door and realised I didn't have my phone on me. Woke up the next morning with a memory of throwing my bag into the Yarra so ahhh anyone want an old 5C with a heap of trash on it from when I was 21, ahhh, dive to the bottom of the Yarra.

 

[Richard Cranium]

This is why I still use a 3315.

 

[GreyCrow]

Watching the footy on my iPhone 5s was almost pointless.

I saw somebody watching highlights on the train home. Thats as much as I could do. Bugger sitting there for 2-3 hours holding or squinting

 

[revo333]

Cracked my first ever screen at the start of the year, was getting house keys out of the pocket and my phone slide out of the pocket and landed on the screen

 

[class78]

Phone fell down the side of my car and I opened a door upon arrival at my destination, resulting in the phone falling onto the bitumen, breaking the screen, and also partly removing the menu button.

 

[Allikat]

so far I have cracked one screen
fell off my knee onto tiles and landed the wrong way
kept that phone for another two years though as it still worked

since then I've had cases

Same way I cracked my old one. Only phone I ever broke. And I just put a screen protector on it after I broke it to protect my fingers from glass shards and used it for another year.

 

[Power Raid]

$50-85 for a new iPhone screen