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The Destruction Of My First Evo - Whats Your Story

So,
Just for fun I thought I would share my story, of how I broke my first evo. I set my evo on the bumper of my car. Rearranged something in the the bed, and forgot my evo on the bumper. 20 minuets later I'm driving and looking for my phone. Well to make a long story short, the evo stayed on my bumper until I hit a speed bump in the parking lot of my apt. I drive all the way back home, and see it right next to the speed bump face down, screen shattered. The good news I have a tough case, and even though it was run over by a car, it still works! I would love to hear any other stories about evo destruction!

Dang. That's crazy that it still works even after being ran over, ha-ha.
I've only just dropped like crazy onto concrete, floors, etc, and it only has one tiny little crack by the search button and some dings.

jkinnison90 said:
Dang. That's crazy that it still works even after being ran over, ha-ha.
I've only just dropped like crazy onto concrete, floors, etc, and it only has one tiny little crack by the search button and some dings.
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Personally I'm pretty impressed with the durability of the phone. Extreme damage no phone can withstand, but I dropped it before out of the case and it holds up well to some of the older phones that I have dropped.

I dropped it by accident face first straight flat fall ON the face on my hardwood floor and not one single thing was damaged.
Edit: it was about a 4 foot drop.
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I lost mine over the weekend while I was out of town. I didn't even know Sprint offered insurance.
Anyone know if they'll let me buy a replacement at the subsidized cost?

xp3nd4bl3 said:
I lost mine over the weekend while I was out of town. I didn't even know Sprint offered insurance.
Anyone know if they'll let me buy a replacement at the subsidized cost?
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They are so strict on that, they wont do it, why sell you one for 200 when they can get 500 from you. I'm surprised they didn't tell you about insurance, it's a huge money maker for them. They want you to have insurance. It sucks losing a phone

xp3nd4bl3 said:
I lost mine over the weekend while I was out of town. I didn't even know Sprint offered insurance.
Anyone know if they'll let me buy a replacement at the subsidized cost?
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Mobile defense (when re-released) and lookout are your new friends..

Evo 1 had burning in screen.
Evo 2 shattered screen
Evo 3 stolen
Evo 4 dead pixels
Waiting on evo 5
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xcodesterox said:
Evo 1 had burning in screen.
Evo 2 shattered screen
Evo 3 stolen
Evo 4 dead pixels
Waiting on evo 5
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Im assuming you only use the new phone for 1 day, because the wait times to receive a new phone is crazy. I waited a week and a half for my 2nd evo...and now this one has a crack on the back camera lens.

Your car has a bed!

Mine has held up really well. 5 months with no case or screen protector. My G1 did go through the laundry once, it still worked for a few days after too.
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garyfunk said:
Your car has a bed!
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The Bed Of My Truck! But I suppose I could put a bed in it.

First one lasted five weeks, then went to sprint store. Second one lasted a month or so.. Next one took a week, and was stolen before I got home.. Damn fedex.. And a week later this evo, my eta from asurion is monday for lucky number five lol.
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I'm on number 2. First one had the speaker stop working and the kickstand spring broke so the kick stand would flip in and it would fall over all of the time. I wasn't about to be responsible for it falling over and flying off the table so it was replaced.
This second one has been like two weeks and the kickstand spring is on the way to dying again. The kickstand squeaks - it slowly gets worse till the spring gives out. I'm sure the speaker will stop working on this one too.
With the luck I had with the first Touch Pro (12 of them in 10 months) I'm sure I'll be seeing the same crap here. I'm gentle to them, they just all fail terribly. I'm beginning to wonder why I bought another HTC phone after the Touch Pro and TP2 were so bad.

Asurion said 5-7 days for my replacement, and I got an email today saying it's been shipped and I'll have it tomorrow. Amazing...... What can I expect, a refurb piece of crap?

EVO #2 here, First one was fine except it had a cracked camera lens, Then i put it in my back pocket, almost sat down in the car and realized it was there. Pulled it out LCD was broken , Glass intact.
Second EVO - Perfect except for crack on power button. Not replacing it for that. And hopefully its my last one.

ShadowDrake said:
I'm on number 2. First one had the speaker stop working and the kickstand spring broke so the kick stand would flip in and it would fall over all of the time. I wasn't about to be responsible for it falling over and flying off the table so it was replaced.
This second one has been like two weeks and the kickstand spring is on the way to dying again. The kickstand squeaks - it slowly gets worse till the spring gives out. I'm sure the speaker will stop working on this one too.
With the luck I had with the first Touch Pro (12 of them in 10 months) I'm sure I'll be seeing the same crap here. I'm gentle to them, they just all fail terribly. I'm beginning to wonder why I bought another HTC phone after the Touch Pro and TP2 were so bad.
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12 in 10 months, I would think sprint would just cancel you. I replaced my diamond once and never had a problem with the refurbished one I got. Getting them to replace it took a couple trips to the sprint store though, 2nd trip they ordered my new one. They must know you by name there, probably keep a phone for you in a drawer.
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bharris25 said:
They must know you by name there, probably keep a phone for you in a drawer.k
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LOLLOL
On my second one, it should arrive today. The assurion backorder thing is a joke. They said it would take 3-5 days, that was yesterday when i sent them the info. And fedex overnight is so damn fast. They must have a driver dedicated just to me.
In all honesty, the first one i got a big scratch on the glass, so i decided to buff it out with a whole bunch of different grits of sand paper and polish. Well i did a good job (i have done auto paint multiple times, it isn't much different) but the scratch was so deep i would have had to remove way too much glass to make it go away. So i bought a new digitizer off of ebay. Put it on, was very happy about everything and that very day I didn't have my jelly case on it because I had it off to put the new digitizer on and i dropped the SoB on the floor at work and the LCD went out. Digitizer didn't crack or anything though.
I told assurion I lost it in the trash compactor at work so that I could sell the digitizer and other parts to recoup some of the cost of the deductible and new digitizer though.
I will never remove my baby from it's case again.

My 1st evo the headphone port broke.
My 2nd evo was accidentally hit with a baseball bat.
3rd Evo is great.

DeMiNe0 said:
My 1st evo the headphone port broke.
My 2nd evo was accidentally hit with a baseball bat.
3rd Evo is great.
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So uh, did the 2nd one get hit with a baseball bat while in your pocket or something? Mouthing off to the wrong people?

So called build quality

A thought just ran through my head in regards to build quality. In short drop a feather & a brick from about chest high & see what happens.
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what is this I don't even.......

Wildheathen0341 said:
A thought just ran through my head in regards to build quality. In short drop a feather & a brick from about chest high & see what happens.
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Well, you'll have to understand that build quality can vary greatly when comparing feathers to bricks. Although it would seem that the feather escapes the drop test completely unharmed, you'll notice that there are thousands of micro-fractures from the force of the trauma. The brick, too, will suffer severe cracks and possible breaks, but you'll notice that once you put both subjects under an electon microscope, you'll see that the brick has fewer micro-fractures for a sum of less damage (even though fractured).
That is assuming, of course, a solid surface such as concrete or asphalt.
/Plus, what the heck are you talking about? lol. I want what you're smoking; my stuff doesn't seem that strong.

So our epic's build quality is strong, however its weight doesn't compensate its strength?

othan1 said:
I want what you're smoking; my stuff doesn't seem that strong.
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This.
/10char

This is not the Mechanical Engineering thread is it? I knew I should have taken that left turn at Albuquerque.

wait, what???

i hope you don't think you were being deep

My epic dropped dozens of times
All i got is a scuff mark from when it landed on a corner
The epic may be plastic, but its some nice engineering
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A_Flying_Fox said:
My epic dropped dozens of times
All i got is a scuff mark from when it landed on a corner
The epic may be plastic, but its some nice engineering
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+1 to that. I dropped it on tile 2weeks ago, about 3feet, sounded soo harsh. I thought it would shutoff or something. was perfect, no scuffs or anything =)

othan1 said:
what the heck are you talking about? lol. I want what you're smoking; my stuff doesn't seem that strong.
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He's probably on this new drug called Sheen. I hear it gives you tiger blood.
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Its like comparing titanium and steel,titanium is lighter,yet stronger given you use the same weight not thickness; Say if you had a 1" thick steel wall and a 1" thick titanium wall,the steel wall would be stronger in say a penetration test; But use the same material in weight and that 1" wall of titanium becomes a 3" thick wall,which would easily be stronger then a 1" thick steel wall. But seriously anything lighter will have less impact on case and components on the inside,physics 101,and a feather wouldnt get damaged from a drop on the ground.
Ok Im done thinking...
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Shoulon said:
+1 to that. I dropped it on tile 2weeks ago, about 3feet, sounded soo harsh. I thought it would shutoff or something. was perfect, no scuffs or anything =)
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Dropped mine onto a hard concrete floor about 4 feet. Back popped off, battery popped out, my dad gasped as I said "don't worry, I'm insured" and noticed some minor scuffs/pitting in one corner. I put the phone back together and it's like nothing ever happened.
Samsung physically builds their phones great. I've had 3 of them including my Epic.

If you don't know what I'm talking about then how could you possibly have an answer yet you've offered up one still. Smoking huh? ;-)
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Simple, drop a galaxy S device from about chest high Vs. an iPhone from the same height & what do you think the result would be? Now of course I don't mean on a mattress or any thing like that I mean a surface with very little give, what do you think the outcome would be?
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One weekend a few months ago I had my phone sitting on my desk charging, and it rang right as I was walking by. I grabbed the phone as I walked by so that I could answer it, but hadn't noticed it was plugged in to the wall two feet down.
As I grabbed the phone and turned to walk away, the cord caught, actually bending around a knob on my desk making a tight point and slipping the phone right out of my hands.
'Oh crap' I thought, and I quickly reached back to snatch it, but my lightning reflexes were not expecting the spring-loaded return the charge cable had initiated, and only the tips of my fingers hit the phone... hard... in an upward motion away from me.
In that moment my phone went from a 3 foot free fall to a high speed projection 7 feet above floor level and landing, cable now detached by force, about 15 feet away. On the floor. Which is tile.
As if that wasn't enough to make a bad situation worse, about 2 hours before I had taken my hard case off as well to swap memory cards and had not put the case back on.
In those 5 seconds from fingertips to floor I had already started wondering how good the insurance policy I had paid in advance for was going to be, but when I picked the phone up off the ground it was 100% intact, not even a scratch on it.
A far cry from any previous phones I have dropped, where a drop from 24" (falling off my lap getting out of a car, etc) would result in the phones exploding every loose panel, battery, etc, scuffing the crap out of the plastics. With the size of the screen on this phone I thought for sure if nothing else the screen would blow up, but not even that.

I was close then =P well my Dad own's a 3GS and dropped it off a Scaffold at 25ft. It worked fine, no scratch since it had invisiShield. Also on a lift at about 45ft. the outer rim bended abit though.

i think the epic's pretty well built

I accidentally launched mine from my pocket to about 10 feet away across the bar on my birthday. Fell screen down on a sandy floor. Digitizer shattered, but worked fine. Best Buy replaced the deigitizer. Fine now.

+1 to bestbuys awesome warranty's.
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Phone dropped in water, Amazingly still works. THANKS HTC!!!!

Hi I just wanted to share my super awesome story here with everybody in the xda community. It's pretty crazy!
Recently I was up in the mountains of Utah ice fishing on a lake. I had my HTC Droid Incredible in my shirt pocket listening to some music. I got a bite on my fishing pole so I bent over to grab my pole (I guess I had forgotten to button up my shirt pocket, OOPS!) and plop there goes my phone into the water. I reached my arm down in the hole as fast as I could to grab it but no luck. At that point I thought, well there goes my $200 dollar phone I loved! I had accepted the fact that it was probably gone forever.
So while I was stewing there facing the fact that I had to buy a new phone, a great idea flashed through my mind. One of the guys I went fishing with happened to bring an underwater camera. I sat and thought, well the least we could do is drop it down and see if we could hook onto the phone somehow and get it back on the surface and at least salvage my SD card that was inserted in it.
We continued with dropping the camera down the hole and quickly located the phone, it was lying face down on the bottom of the lake. So we thought, heck lets throw a big hook on the end of the pole try our luck. After a few minutes of playing with the pole a little bit we managed to find our hook on the screen and placed it close to the phone. At this time we were noticing a lot of fish circling around where the phone was (I guess fish like HTC's too!). So for the next hour-and-a-half we continuously tried to hook onto the phone with no luck, although we did manage to catch two fish in the process. We finally caught a break, somehow we managed to hook on to the edge of the screen between the plastic and the glass and flipped the phone over face up, this got us excited and gave us whim of hope that maybe we would be able to retreive the phone. We continues trying for another fifteen minutes when voila, we hooked onto the phone again and this time for good because we pulled it up a little bit and could see it hovering above the lake floor.
We began to reel it up very slowly as to make sure that it didn't fall off the hook and be back at square one. We got the phone up to the surface of the water and I grabbed it as fast as I could. When I grabbed it I realized we had caught it in a place that almost seems impossible. We managed to hook it in the headphone jack and were able to reel it up all the way! The tiny 3.5mm headphone jack! When I grabbed the phone it was vibrating and had been doing so for the near two hours it spent on the bottom of the lake. I took the battery out as fast as I could and put it away.
At this point I was amazed at the fact that I even got the phone back.
So when I got back home, I sprayed out the phone with compressed air and then continued to take it apart all the way down to the mainboard and the lcd screen. I then sprayed it with air once again and proceeded to put all the pieces of the phone into a bag of uncooked rice.
24 hours later I took the phone out of the bag, and knew this was the moment of truth! I put the phone back together and popped the battery in. I pressed the power button and I kid you not the phone booted up and worked! I was truly amazed! The phone still continues to work to this day which Is almost a month later.
I think this speaks for how well HTC makes their phones and how rock solid they are, I know if I had the choice I would definitely buy one again. I thought everybody would appreciate this so I posted the story just for fun.

Best wet phone story ever... ice fishing... bottom of the lake... snagged it in the heaphone jack... all while catching fish.
Somebody beat that!

It was pretty awesome! I thought it'd be a good story to share.
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That's crazy that it still works. I would have gave up fishing for it about 5 minutes after I started.
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Epic story. Hardware wise, these things are indestructible.

I agree. It's built from stone.
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Yep I love this phone, I've been so reluctant to upgrade because of how durable it is and with all the mods and customizations that are available on it, it's just awesome.
great story

^^+1
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Thats a great story and even though i have a rezound now ... i will never forget how incredible that phone was.

How do you like the rezound compared to the incredible? I was looking at one as a possibility for upgrade, that or the gnex.
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I actually washed my HTC Droid Eris and continued to use it and eventually gave it to a friend who is still using it!
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That's amazing. HTC's are built so well, would have never expected my phone to still work after what it went through!
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SGS-II, Toughness? Test!!

Did my own version of the drop test today (accidentally o/c)
Details:
-Venue = Subway
-Scene = holding sandwich in one hand, waiting for my smoothie to be made
-Accident = reached into jacket pocket to remove ph it (somehow) flew out of grasp & fell onto floor
-Height of fall = 115cm
-Floor type = hard mezzanine floor
My heart dropped when it happened as I couldn't do anything to grab it as it fell to the rear. I was certain it would be broken/cracked somehow.
Miraculously, not a single scratch!? :woohoo:
Ph is a bit tougher than I gave it credit for
SGS-II :FTW:

King_Rat said:
Did my own version of the drop test today (accidentally o/c)
Details:
-Venue = Subway
-Scene = holding sandwich in one hand, waiting for my smoothie to be made
-Accident = reached into jacket pocket to remove ph it (somehow) flew out of grasp & fell onto floor
-Height of fall = 115cm
-Floor type = hard mezzanine floor
My heart dropped when it happened as I couldn't do anything to grab it as it fell to the rear. I was certain it would be broken/cracked somehow.
Miraculously, not a single scratch!? :woohoo:
Ph is a bit tougher than I gave it credit for
SGS-II :FTW:
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It also depends on how u drop it Like a baseball or like a paper..:angel:

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Hang on,
I think we're all missing the point here. Subway does smoothies in your country?!

scayre32 said:
I think we're all missing the point here. Subway does smoothies in your country?!
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Keep walking Greece

I'm a student. I don't take good care of my phone. I was at Starbucks yesterday with my friend who has a HTC Inspire 4G (basically a Desire HD with a HSPA+ radio) and after seeing how I handle my phone at my home (throwing it on my bed when I Need to do something else, tossing it onto the ground when I need to pick something heavy up, etc.) he was amazed how his phone that he takes extreme care of is scratched and broken and mine is pristine.
Goes to show you how badly made these HTC phones are.

I use my phone as a Speedometer / GPS on my motorcycle. The camera is the only exposed part of the phone on the back. It's taken stones and bugs full force at 100kph+ with only minor scratches on the bezel. The phone is very tough. :laugh:

My phone fell out my pocket flat on its face onto tiles... No visible damage but the screen never came on again. Take care of your phones and dont drop them they are not nokia 3210s

Your phone fell and nothing happened? That's coz you're lucky.
It's nothing to do with Galaxy s2.
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Look at Youtube for "sgs2 scratch test" The gorilla glass is really good...

accidentally dropped my phone a couple of times even without any protected casings and so far just one small dent on the top left corner. While the phone is built very plasticky, I still think it's a strong protected phone overall. No scratch whatsoever on the screen either, well built!

I recently bought a Galaxy S II I was using my phone for navigation then suddenly it flew out of my hand and dropped on the concrete foot path and screen cracked but works flawlessly. It happened after two days I bought my phone.
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:doh: it was an accident :lmao:
scayre32 said:
I think we're all missing the point here. Subway does smoothies in your country?!
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rakeshishere said:
Your phone fell and nothing happened? That's coz you're lucky.
It's nothing to do with Galaxy s2.
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I'm one lucky SOB :aight:
I've dropped every smart phone I've owned one time or another :yup: & not one of them has scratched/cracked/chipped etc.
-=or=- maybe... just maybe... they're actually designed to fall out of hands & take a bit of punishment...
Like saying if you drive an SUV and crash & come away w/o any injuries - it's got nothing to do with the SUV! You're just lucky? :sif:
PS - thanks to those sharing their stories both sad & happy

Mine took quite a few falls not long after buying it. the first was the worst. Slid right off my dresser. my heart stopped as i watched it go face down in slow mo. i was afraid to pick it up. When i finally did it was fine and not a mark. Bought a screen protector kit that day and walked a with a little more confidence knowing this thing is pretty damn tuff. win.
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Dropped mine twice.
First time i was taking it out of my pocket to awnser a call while riding my bicycle(had forgotten my headphones that day) and it slipped out of my hand and hit the street at about 25km/h. Back and battery popped right of and when i picked it up it only had some minor scratches around the edges and booted straight up after putting the battery back.
Second time it slipped out of my trousers pocket while i was getting up from the sofa. Dropped about 40 cm onto the hard wood floor screen down. Destroyed the glass and screen completely. Locked liked somebody hit it with a hammer. Had to get the screen replaced. Just shows you how lucky one can be sometimes and sometimes not.
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Clumsiness: the thread.
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pcfanboy142 said:
Clumsiness: the thread.
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Mine has a small scratch on the glass from being dropped on cement while jogging the side is cracked a bit and the corners are dented. Phone works fine though!

auto_freak said:
accidentally dropped my phone a couple of times even without any protected casings and so far just one small dent on the top left corner. While the phone is built very plasticky, I still think it's a strong protected phone overall. No scratch whatsoever on the screen either, well built!
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+1
it happens too me also but you can barely see damage on the phone

+1 on the road, sidewalk, tossed across the office. Thing was built to last, not a scratch on it.
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Guess there's a lot of us lucky SOB's with the SGS-II... not just me :victory:
we must 'all' be Irish ^^ :highfive:

Heroic leap of i9001

Since I got myself new Nexus, I gave my sister i9001. I used to treat it like king, not a single scratch, not even on back of it. I was walking down the street with my sister. When she talks, she usually waves everywhere with her arms and she was holding the phone. When she swung up, the phone just "escaped" from her hand in the air, like 3,5 meters high (don't know how much feet, sorry 'Merica) and it fell on the middle of the road with pretty great force (if that was happen to iPhone, it would probably be turn to dust). Anyway, that moment when we realized what happened and the noise the phone did when hit the ground just terrified me, and the phone was face down so I couldn't see the screen. I crapped my pants while getting the phone from the ground thinking what kind of damage is done on the device. But when I picked it up, it didn't have a single scratch. Except little crack but on that silver crap on the edge (I don't know how is that called, but it is irrelevant, it's barely noticable). After that sister got the back cover and SIM card from the other side of the road. It still works perfectly
Just felt like I need to share with you about the armor of Galaxy S.

Bear witness to the amazing power of the SGS construction and, I suppose, a lot of force escapes with the cover and battery when they're ejected...
Your sister had issues btw
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Hr Kristian said:
Bear witness to the amazing power of the SGS construction and, I suppose, a lot of force escapes with the cover and battery when they're ejected...
Your sister had issues btw
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Yeah, she used to own Xperia X8 and she hated it so much that she was insensitive about it and was throwing it everywhere in the room only to break it so mum and dad buy her new one. She is completely satisfied with i9001 but still got old habits of not caring for phone.

Not so lucky for me my s plus dropped 2 feet from the ground and craked the screen badly =(
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I have dropped mine a few times and, like you, aside from a few small nicks in the silver crud its perfect.