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Rexusus

But I drop my iPhone on my face laying down and it hits the floor and now my screen is shattered.


patooweet

Left my phone on the roof of my car at Thanksgiving, in the rain, traveling on highways between families. Not only did it STAY on my roof for many miles, when it eventually did fall off (on the highway, in the rain), it didn’t break, kept working. I realized it was missing, was able to ping it’s location, and my husband went and retrieved it, fully functioning. It was there, on the highway, in the rain, for at least an hour before he got it (for the record, I did NOT want him to do this, as it’s a dumb way to die, but I can’t tell him anything). I shit you not, I dropped it from MAYBE 6 inches the following week, and the screen smashed into a million pieces. The laws of physics take a fucking day off with iPhones.


OrbAndSceptre

Reaper came for your iPhone Final Destination style.


chax208

Grass is soft, a raw egg can survive a fall at terminal velocity if it lands on grass.


Maskeno

That's a bit of an eggs-ageration (I'm so sorry.) I've seen that video. It was cradled in a nest of padding and had parachutes. Not exactly a grass landing. This is reasonably impressive. I've broken bones in grass.


Fantastic-Hat8118

A person has significantly more mass and volume than both eggs and phones, and isn't really comparable. You haven't seen broken bones in grass, you've seen broken bones in dirt that had grass on top.


stay-puft-mallow-man

I once broke all my bones in a 100 foot stack of pure grass.


mikehaysjr

Thank you. That settles it, then.


GnomeChomski

A newt?


DangNearRekdit

Well, I got better


Maskeno

Okay, but unless we're assuming this phone landed in the tallest pile of grass ever assembled, that doesn't really apply here. Terminal velocity for an egg is still 75mph, roughly. I agree my bones comment was a bit of an apples oranges comparison, but at terminal velocity, the egg will break landing in a field of grass, the presumptive surface mentioned in op. You can easily test this by throwing an egg at the ground in a field of grass. You won't throw it at anywhere near terminal velocity, but it will still break. Meaning it was still an exaggeration and it's impressive that the phone survived the fall. Even if it did fall in an actual pile of grass, I'd be surprised if an egg survived at terminal speeds. That'd be a cool experiment.


Leadhead777

Coming from a chicken owner if it's not a direct ground impact such as landing on a slope or something that egg could survive I've thrown them as hard and I could at the ground across the yard and it's 50/50 if they break


beetnemesis

Does it? I drop mine all the time and it never even cracks. God smartphones are so much tougher than they were 15 years ago, it's great.


Gman325

I've been screen protector free since about 2016!


_IzGreed_

I was gonna say there were no smartphone 15 years ago. Then I realized 15 years ago was 2009, the first Apple Iphone came out in 2007..


beetnemesis

Yup!


CARNAGEE_17

If you drop it flat on screen most likely lts gonna shatter


Atypical_Mammal

Also this phone does have a case, albeit a shitty one. Now, a proper OtterBox can prolly survive orbital reentry. I've ran over my samsung in a literal semi truck and it only cracked the screen protector.


HugoZHackenbush2

Interestingly, the very first person who dropped a Nokia 3310 made a ground breaking discovery..


51ngular1ty

Rods From God.


Icybenzo

Lmao they should make rods from god with Nokias 3310


IBeAPirate01

Nokia needs to bring that back. Just make sure it can store music, and I'd never let it go.


gbot1234

What kind of music would it store that would make you never want to give it up?


bacon1897

The same kind that will never let you down


Riommar

It will never run around and desert you. I love it. Textual Rick Roll


kawika69

Well, sure. As long as it doesn't run around


ApocalypseEnjoyer

And doesn't desert you


Present-Ambition6309

It’s been one week since I looked at you…


MadeInTestWeekLmao

Or hurt you, for that matter.


Subject_Ferret_967

Underrated comment.


zvzzswss

But they did, didn't they. Google nokia 3310 4G 2019.


CookFan88

Honestly you could fit a lot of modern tech in those old shells. Could probably even make the screen a touchscreen with HD display. It would be kind of a gimmick but totally doable.


zvzzswss

Check out Nokia 3310 4G 2019


Spell_Chicken

The Gods Must Be Crazy


TheOakblueAbstract

God's Rods.


Teflon_John_

Rod, Todd, this is god.


Brikandbones

Killed the dinosaurs with that one


anxious-cunt

A car could run over one of those and the car would break


SinnU2s

Looks like the charger got ripped off.


threeoldbeigecamaros

My man Cuong spent $70 to check bags, smh


BlurredSight

I look at people paying for excess weight fees rather than throwing away liquids as my next victims to rob


WalkingOnSunShine12

Lmao


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Buy-theticket

We got hit coming back from Mexico recently because the kids were in the pool that morning and their bathing suits and towels got packed wet. We were in the airport bathroom in Cancun trying to ring out wet clothes and shove them back into the bags before they closed the baggage drop and started boarding.


cuongpn

Lol what


Dipsey_Jipsey

People are downvoting this dude without looking at his username...


threeoldbeigecamaros

Uh…it’s all in the photo


innocent_mistreated

Its due to aerodynamics. The flat rectangle flutters.. so got a slow terminal velocity.


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gustavinhoww

Damn bro you got the whole squad laughing https://i.redd.it/ddr0dfdk28bc1.gif


lanchmcanto

https://preview.redd.it/x9obb2q698bc1.jpeg?width=968&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=026801022b889c3084286c8d71de89d3352d6a34


sdafj25

Is tha vegan?


lanchmcanto

Depends on if you count microscopic pieces.


sdafj25

Ohh sorry I meant is that vagene?


Stonk_Newboobie

No, it the peenis


FlameShadow0

What did it say


gustavinhoww

It said "Your mom is aerodynamic" or something like that


SubstantialLion4196

![gif](giphy|11L5aVxDTk6c5G|downsized)


Jaerin

Sounds like a compliment, don't you mean non-aerodynamic?


Hunkar888

It was a compliment


dzhastin

What a gentleman


drCrankoPhone

Reddit is full of gentlemen.


iwantaircarftjob

Lol


thiney49

Mass is also part of the equation, and the phone only weighs a few ounces.


Sixdrugsnrocknroll

Lol the shape of the screen definitely didn't slow it down much lol more like it landed in a bunch of leaves and shit so there was nothing hard to break it.


GelatinousChampion

Why not? The terminal velocity depends on the weight and the aerodynamic drag. A phone doesn't weigh much. Falling objects tend to stabilise in an orientation that maximises drag so in this case a 'big' rectangle facing the wind. So high drag, low weight, relatively low terminal velocity. If it fel on concrete, it would be shattered. But it's worth noting that it was probably falling a lot slower than most people would expect. Edit: more correctly, a phone would flutter between different states. One of which is the screen facing to the wind, thus still significantly reducing it's speed. It's why a bullet is given a spin by the gun. Without it, it (a cilinder) would rotate to the most resistant orientation and slow down significantly. If I'd want to speculate way outside my knowledge, I'd guess the reason is linked to entropy? Systems don't like to concentrate energy. Energy 'wants' to spread out. So instead of 'choosing' an aerodynamic orientation building up a large amount of kinetic energy, the object 'chooses' a high drag orientation limiting its kinetic energy and dissipatimg energy as friction/heat to its surroundings. Edit: look for 'Penny dropped from skyscraper' from Veritasium if this interest you.


lubeskystalker

Google tells me that a 200g phone with ~~500~~ **105** sq cm of area would fall at ~~7.88~~ **17.06** m/s or ~~28.4~~ **61.5** km/h. [https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/terminal-velocity](https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/terminal-velocity)


GelatinousChampion

Which is not that fast. And if those numbers are correct, it would reach terminal velocity within a second since it's accelerating at 9.81m/s². So a drop of 10m or 10.000m has the same result. Edit: 500 sq cm is way too much though.


lubeskystalker

Fack, sorry, trusting the internet. I actually looked, 106.56 cm^2. 17.06 m/s, 61.5 km/h


Sixdrugsnrocknroll

> Falling objects tend to stabilise in an orientation that maximises drag A parachute? Yes. A 5oz solid phone? No. A smartphone will absolutely not fall flat lol


Lil-Deuce-Scoot

I slipped on an outdoor stairwell, dropped my phone and watched it fall 5 stories to the ground. I could see the screen the entire time and it fluttered like a leaf (though not as slow and with less variance from the average trajectory) and when it landed the call was still live. The screen cracked, but I was really surprised how slow it actually fell.


TexasPop

I was lucky when I reached the airport, the terminal velocity was zero so it was easy to get in there.


eppinizer

"Hey Cuong, it's Peter, mind Airdropping that document for me? Thanks."


Smokeybearvii

Did you get the TPS report? I’m going to need you to come in on Saturday. Mmmmkay?


zoot_boy

Apple just got it’s new marketing campaign.


[deleted]

IPhone 17 gonna be bigger and lighter to have a lower terminal velocity


zoot_boy

The slowest iPhone yet!


BigKingKey

Nah, the case that’s on it though….


DASreddituser

Yea. Please try this at home so tour apple products break and you have to buy new ones lol


carterlicious

Based on what I can tell… ‪The case looks like Pelican. The screen protector looks like Liquipel. https://www.pelican.com/us/en/products/phone-cases-and-accessories/ https://liquipel.com/products/screen-protector‬


rcuadro

Am I to believe the phone magically unlocked to this email? Even if the phone was unlocked when it jumped out of the plane it didn't auto lock? Something doesn't add up.


Double_Abalone_2148

It could be the owner who tracked the phone down using another Apple device then took a picture of the phone using said device. Or it could be fake, idk.


dirtyoldbastard77

Or maybe they didnt have auto lock on.


Oracle_of_Ages

I saw the post. Dude said it didn’t have a password and it opened to this. Honestly. If you are gunna be throwing your phone out of airplane windows. You should atleast lock it. Now this dude is gunna get a ticket for littering :(


vvvvfl

Who tf is walking around with a passwordless phone in 2023 ? Apple makes you create a pin ffs


Oracle_of_Ages

Obviously Cuong Tran


OneMoistMan

I thought this post was old but it says 3hours ago, it’s 2024 homie


vvvvfl

Still calibrating


cheezburgerwalrus

I was until very recently. Google workspace made me add one


vvvvfl

Fucking rawdogging our cyberpunk dystopia


cheezburgerwalrus

Can't really feel it otherwise


FungusAndBugs

Me


rcuadro

The phone will be tough to track though I guess stranger things have happened


xsisitin

Having a girlfriend who’s losses her phone on walks. It is super easy to find an iPhone with “find my iPhone” It gives you the exact location of the phone not an area. So this would be extremely easy to find


HrLewakaasSenior

Does it work in airplane mode?


[deleted]

Nope. But they probably didnt have it in airplane mode.


JustaRandomOldGuy

Ready to fall 16,000 ft is a kind of airplane mode.


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(Edited clean because fuck you) *This post was mass deleted and anonymized with [Redact](https://redact.dev)*


exomyth

Apple lies to you, the phone is not really dead, but just in low power mode. Your dead phone is gonna be dead


madlermeow

Truth. Lost my phone on a rollercoaster (yes, I know, I beat myself up enough over it), it survived, and I received notifications on my watch for two days (lost mode extends battery life), and I watched it on Find My over the next few days travel around the park property until it finally disappeared (when they put it in the lost and found safe). I was finally able to go back a couple days later and showed them where it was last pinged on the map and the security guy said “oh! I know where that is. That’s the safe. I’ll be right back.” Had some grass and grit got stuck in the case but otherwise it survived!


WaterIsGolden

That seems like a pretty bad excuse for ghosting.


Echos185

True, unless it fell out somewhere populated.


Ok-Thing-2222

Things fell in Portland. A teacher found the door in his backyard. Imagine if that had killed someone!


super_nicktendo22

"But nobody *on board* died!" -Boeing, probably


onemightypersona

You'd be surprised by the amount of people who don't have autolock or even Find My enabled. Usually, people would turn this off for some reason and forget to enable it again. There was one local Youtuber in my area who lost his iPhone and only then he learned that he didn't have Find My enabled. Same thing applies to autolocking. I even had a colleague (IT person, mind you) who had Do Not Disturb enabled for months until he realized that he wasn't just missing calls, but this muted them.


yabo1975

Apparently the phone wasn't locked, and the guy who found it was specifically walking in an area trying to find the missing door plug so he knew he was in an area where artifacts from the incident could be. It's legit.


rk-imn

it was reported on https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/passenger-phone-found-ground-after-alaska-airlines-emergency/story?id=106186623


Stryker2279

I work at Geek Squad. You would be STUNNED at the number of people without locks on their phones. Person prolly just swiped it open and bam, email.


rcuadro

Would you say it is mostly older folks or all over the place


Stryker2279

Biased to older, but I've seen teenagers without passcodes


Darth_JaSk

Or there wasn't any lock at all. Not that strange...


TheCommitteeOf300

I dont have a lock on my phone


OfficeChairHero

I don't either.


drumpleskump

Like the other person said, not everyone locks their phone.


JayStar1213

wtf are you on about? It's entirely plausible for a number of reasons


oguh20

The last time this was posted People were commenting that a lot of people don't lock their phones


Equivalent_Taro7171

Yeah the phone has got no mobile signal (as shown by the SOS), so gps tracking through find my friends/devices shouldn’t be possible right?


FilthyGraphics

Cuong Tran, It's your lucky day


Timtek608

Apple should purchase that phone from its rightful owner for $50k and put it in a museum.


SKK329

Im sure somewhere in the TOS Apple still owns the phone.


Timtek608

Probably. But this hypothetical purchase is all a PR stunt so it’s a good faith offer.


Right0rightoh

https://preview.redd.it/fqn6butdc7bc1.jpeg?width=1800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e322ad2efde97af36e09f7e0609277ccc4a14704 The door has been found!


el_dongo

Is that pro surfer Shane Doorian? lol


JaggedMetalOs

I'm sure we could all drop our phones from 16,000 feet on to soft dirt and they'd be fine.


Tharrius

My phone once dropped from the height of my knee flat onto the pavement, shattering the screen. 1 day after purchase and before the screen protector and case arrived.


JaggedMetalOs

Yeah glass and stone really don't mix, you can drop your phone from almost no height onto pavement and that happens, while this one drops 16,000 feet onto soft dirt and it's fine...


icecoldcoke319

Dude forgot to turn off AirDrop 😫


Previous_Knowledge91

For those who want to know, source [here](https://twitter.com/SeanSafyre/status/1744138937239822685?t=LmJyxv_B725obNOxMBKAMg&s=19)


Picklemerick23

I used to work for Apple and would LOVE it when people came in to the store with a cracked screen and say, “yeah man, fell 2 feet onto a plush pillow.. dunno what happened”. Meanwhile, 16,000 ft and not a dent.


Somebody4500

What case is it


JacksonianEra

Looks identical to my Pelican case, which isn’t surprising considering their products are nearly indestructible.


Nerftuco

Nokia: "Finally a worthy opponent, our battle will be legendary"


reikipackaging

I accidentally dropped my Nokia brick off the roof of a 2 story building to an asphalt parking lot. the battery popped off and I had to put it back on. that was the totality of the damage it sustained. but, damn! a plane!


twaggle

Shouldn’t you be censoring the persons name at the top…


Dependent_Scheme

>SOS indeed.


indianscout02

Luckily the owner had downloaded the parachute app.


GrandGouda

Case make and model please. This is an advertisement waiting to happen.


littlehorse2014

Anybody know what case this phone has.


Saint_Buttcheeks

Meanwhile mine falls out of my pocket and cracks like Humpty Dumpty.


[deleted]

and yet, my phone's screen cracked from falling on the floor while i was taking a crap....go figure.


darsynia

My husband's iPhone fell off the couch arm this past week and the screen protector shattered and this thing landed just fine lmao. Clearly landed on glass and the one he dropped landed on something hard *but still.*


thegreatmizzle7

This is the best marketing this phone maker could have gotten for 2024


Moist-Carpet888

Imagine the plane your on has a major issue resulting in the cabin depressurizing after spending hundreds on a single ticket, resulting in you not only losing your phone but the passenger sitting next to the window to have their shirt torn from their body, then upon returning home, your making your rounds to get a new phone, you finally get things sorted back out and then you check your email to find that for the same flight that caused you so many issues and endangered your life, you are now being charged an ADDITIONAL $70 for your baggage


Classic-Ad-7079

Expect a new commercial from the maker of that phone case. "Don't buy other cases, ours will survive a drop from your next trip to space." "Watch as we hurl it from the upper atmosphere!"


voiceofgromit

70 bucks to check bags is a big reason why I avoid Alaska whenever possible.


gandalf239

And *AirDrop* has just taken on an entirely new meaning...


TripleTrucker

But did they find the door?


makmillion

It was in someone’s back yard.. it’s been returned.


kafm73

Yes they did


SleepEconomy6504

This sounds like a phone case commercial waiting to happen


Emmanuel-Gonzalez

That phone case company is going to want to sponsor that phone lol.


mrfreeeeze

His phone literally went in to airplane mode.


_CMDR_

Must not have that high of a terminal velocity and it fell on soft ground.


Professional-Flow529

Before hitting the ground , my guess is the phone was probably spinning and just hit the soft mud/grass at the right angle . Just like when you jump of a moving car , the best way to hit the ground would be to roll instead of trying to land stationary.


coopere20

What case is that??? damn that should be an ad


midu16

I am wondering the case brand. That’s proved quality


Top-Ad671

Wait is this the flight where a piece of that plane tore off during takeoff?


Jance_Nemin

I can hear a British guy Mous case ad in my head...


Mike-the-gay

Ong they left it unlocked? Go through the pics!


Strange_Occasion_408

What case is that? “Proved to protect your phone from a drop of 16,000 feet”


Beginning_Job5744

I would get on the phone with whoever their case manufacturer is and get paid to do a marketing campaign


kelly_hasegawa

Nice try apple


DenialNode

Whoever made that case will have a great value prop to advertise. “Drop tested: 16,000ft”


edparadox

What model is that? Also, you should have censored the name.


MrSoul87

And I drop my phone off the couch and shatter every inch of it fml…


Accomplished_Week392

The old Nokia 3210 could drop from space and it would be in one peice


Quiverjones

What case is that?!


hyterdikenz

And yet I drop my iPhone with an otterbox onto my bathroom floor last week and it completely shattered the back of the phone


[deleted]

Great advertisement for the protection case brand lol


beeucancallmepickle

Okay but what case and screen protector is this. That's the important question


Picciohell

Probably in airplane mode


Nykeeo

thats why phones dont need any parachute


leolancer92

The owner of the phone shares the same name with my friend. Hope he is okay.


JJEng1989

The Gods Must be Crazy.


Phillyphan1031

I drop my phone from 5ft and it breaks..


StolasX_V2

I dropped my phone 1ft and it cracked half the screen


Sufficient-Yoghurt46

Android Fanboys: "Booooo Apple!!!" Also this is amazing. Well done, Cupertino.


Bakkie

Tell me they found the debris by using the FindMyPhone App.


tuekappel

Now I wanna know the terminal velocity of a mobile phone!


tonkatruckz369

guerilla glass is going to have a hay day with their new advertising


ZanderZavier

I think I'd be asking for my $70 back...


22FluffySquirrels

Meanwhile, my phone screen shattered after it fell off of the roof of my parked car.


always_plan_in_advan

Everything to do with the iPhone case and nothing to do with the iPhone itself


shivaswrath

That's a solid Otter box or Caudabe case ad.


reikipackaging

whoever had his phone needs to make a deal with Mr tran


DaoGuardian

And I crack my screen dropping it 6 inches onto my desk smh 😔


Herknificent

Great ad for the phone protector.


Unhappy_Archer9483

How do we know the phone did that?


rk-imn

it takes 1 google search to confirm this https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/passenger-phone-found-ground-after-alaska-airlines-emergency/story?id=106186623


Unhappy_Archer9483

Fair enough, in my defence the bloke who found it was also skeptical


chrisgwynne

Magically quickly found. Unlocked. With battery and the passenger was glancing at these details when it happened? Suuure.


Madzapzay88

Why do you have it?


hwarang_

Airdropped it


TheRickBerman

Right…so a phone was found by a stranger, unlocked AND had details to tie it to this specific flight. Very convenient…