We here at iFixYouri did a little science experiment the other day with some of our newest iPhone parts. Many people have been talking that the new iPhone has strong glass, less prone to scratching, 30 times stronger than plastic, etc. Will the new glass prove to be ultra strong and never break?
I’m going to go with a no on this one. Why may you ask? They do say that it is 30 times stronger than plastic, and there is a video of it bending. Bending, yes. They did also state that the iPhone 3Gs Glass was stronger when that came out as well. It may bend more, but can it handle shock and sudden impact, that is the real question. That is what causes 95% of glass shattering. Not because you bent the glass in your pocket, not because you dropped it and it bent, but really because of sudden impact.
Land it flat on the ground, and it will smash. We have evidence. Before i show you the evidence, I am going to point out a design flaw that will bite them in the future. On the new iPhone, the glass basically sits on top of the aluminum frame. On the old iphone, it was recessed and protected by a chrome bezel.
We have a full iPhone 4(minus the circuit board), here at our shop and decided to do a little drop test. This drop was performed from 3.5 ft up. Mind you that these parts ARE original apple parts. Laser etched and all. The iPhone 4 did survive 2 drops, as expected, but on the 3rd drop there was a loud POP, and yet again, shattered glass.
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Since this posting has got waves from many people, we’re going to clear a few things up here.
1) People are saying, “there’s no way you have iPhone 4 parts yet, the phone isn’t even out!”
- The fact is, is that we’re a repair shop. Along with other major repair shops, we’re able to receive parts earlier than most. A simple google search will show that not only us, but other top players in the ‘iphone repair’ world, do in fact have these parts. We did put out a press release on June 3rd stating that we had the parts. This is no secret. A rather large competitor had them as earlier as May 19th. This is also widely spread on the internet
2) You hit it with a hammer
- Uhmmm…no…we didn’t. That’s the most ridiculous thing we’ve heard.
3) Fake
- We’re going to go with a no on this one as well. iPhone 4 Parts are available to all major repair shops…just seek and you shall see. Google ‘iphone repair’ and check some of the top competitor sites…they’re all ramped up and ready to service iPhone 4’s.
Here’s EXACTLY how it went down…if you want to read more into it, go for it. But honestly, and truthfully, this is the EXACT re-enactment of what happened:
It was a hot day on June 7th, 2010 and us here at the shop had just finished listening to the keynote by the great Steve Jobs. He had made a statement that the glass was stronger, more bendable, etc. After hearing that, one of our techs said “We should test a piece of the glass that we have in stock(iphone 4 glass that is).”
We proceeded down the hallway with our assembled iPhone 4(minus the internal circuit board), stepped out the front door and out to the side walk. Our tech held the phone(front facing the ground), and dropped it. Nothing(drop 1-we were very impressed). Drop 2, nothing. Drop 3, smash. He dropped it flat on the face and it popped. The all too familiar pop sound that some of us beloved iPhone users fear for.
As we sat talking about it, we decided to show our results on our blog, so that our readers could see what we had found. Not expecting it to take wind the way it did.
That is all…no ulterior motive…just to show our readers what had happened. That is it.
Please do yourselves a favor and check some competitor sites and you will see that the iPhone 4 parts aren’t as rare and elusive as you may think. There are numerous places out there with iPhone 4 parts already.
Well… this is all very interesting… but the main question is:
Will it blend?
So glass breaks when you drop repeatedly!?!?!?!? I’ll have to amend that wikipedia article on the “O’rly Phenomenon”.
Wow, iPhone fans will defend that POS device until they die. Or a giant android robot destroys it forever
That people care so much about whether or not it’s a fake is hilarious. Thanks for the laughs.
All those claiming fake or rigged, please do me a favor and drop your iPhone 4 flat on it’s face from your hip. Then, come back to this article and post your results.
Blend it! Blend it! Blend it!
Do the test with the Apple “bumper” case and give us those results – they claim it gets around the “design flaw”.
Thanks for the info
I wonder if it would have broken as easily on a flat drop with Apple’s bumper cover which has slightly raised edges around the glass area.
Ever drop a piece of buttered toast and see it land exactly perfectly face down?
Drop any of these full screen glass phones this way onto stone tile or cement from 4-5 feet up and you can count on a glass shatter. There is simply nowhere else for the kinetic energy to go… it doesn’t bounce, roll, flip, chip, dent, bend… No… all the energy from the fall goes simultaneously flat into the glass and it shatters.
Anyone who thinks you have to ‘fake’ that… I won’t call them an “idiot”, but they are certainly incorrect.
u guys should have made a video of ur experiment… don’t know y u didnt in the first place… but anyways it would have proven ur authenticity… and to those who think the phone is unbreakable… hell the 2g was better in qual then the 3g and 3gs… who knows what they did this time and yet again its glass/plastic or whatever high tech crap it is, it will break… take a 20k rolex which is supposedly indestructible and trust me they break at some level off impact as well
It would be much better (and cheaper) if they used plastics.
So how many inches high were the drops? Hip level, chest, or ear? What was the surface dropped onto? Asphalt, cement, wood, or carpet. Did you perform a similar test on the 3g phone setup? Details like that would beote illuminating.
Blend it! Blend it! Blend it!
someones JEALOUS ^^ ahahaha
Those photos turned me on.
They should use cast iron as the back, as the back, and use an led protector over the screen. /sarcasm The iphone 3g is a lot better then that.
Which FMCG company makes a product to last forever these days anyway?
so what’s the point? any glass when drop runs the risk of breaking isn’t it? lol dumb doorknob…
Iphone is a great product and people have spoken already. But glass breaking on new I-phone4 will be a reality. All Iphones used chemically hardened Aluminno silicate glass from Corning. Brand name is Corning Gorilla. Latest grade is slightly better than that used in previous but it wont prevent shattering on a face drop. “Windshield of high-speed trains and helicopters”, “20 times stiffer and 30 times harder than plastic” and “comparable in strength to sapphire crystal” are all real and it was real even in Iphone 3GS. Common apple, compare and physical properties against your previous Iphones.
Please drop an real iPhone 4 when they come out instead of an empty shell. I’m not saying it wont break but all this “test” tells us is that an empty shell _might_ break when dropped repeatedly. I just want to know what would really happen with a full iPhone 4. Then blend it…
Why is this even news? People are retarded. Wait for the real test.
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We have had many requests for a video taped drop test with a full iPhone 4…please stay tuned…once we get the full one here at the shop(INCLUDING the circuit board, we will definitely post)
Can’t wait for that iPhone 4 to break during the video taped drop test.. ^^
They did that already, It was the first one, remember the tinting of the front and the scratches, glass is better.. As for the article, I believe it, I would’ve liked to see drop test results with different cases though. Its a phone worth otter boxing.
Could you also drop an Android and Nokia? See if they break on the first or third drop?
Isn’t it possible that since the inside of the phone is hollow without all of it’s parts, it’s slightly more susceptible to shattering?
no one cares if it breaks or not OFCOURSE glass will break. But u cnt say ur using an ACTUALY AUTHENTIC iPhon4 when the god damn thing isnt even out! yeh u might have some shit fake parts but its not the actual iPhone 4! yes glass breaks…want a cookie?
Looks like those #iPhone 4 bumper guards + cases are going to be in high demand this time (borosilicate – harumph!): http://bit.ly/cje3J1
Iphone 4, will it break? http://bit.ly/bgf7×4
http://www.ifixyouri.com/blog/?p=59 RT @HidekiOnda: iPhone 4のプラ20倍の強さアルミガラス、最初に割る人だれ？ 空手キットにトライさせてみるか？
@jankarel well, that one was a teaser! Here goes though http://www.ifixyouri.com/blog/?p=59
http://bit.ly/aUok3a – Read the paragraph about iPhone 4 accessories, and you'll see why I think http://bit.ly/aQxgb9 is a load of BS.
Uh, those iPhone bumpers may be a good idea: http://www.ifixyouri.com/blog/?p=59
RT @iconmaster: Uh, those iPhone bumpers may be a good idea: http://www.ifixyouri.com/blog/?p=59
アイコンうぜー http://www.ifixyouri.com/blog/?p=59
iPhone4は3Gより割れやすいみたい。バンパー必須です。http://bit.ly/cje3J1
iPhone 4 Glass – Will it break? http://www.ifixyouri.com/blog/?p=59
バンパーetc.は先に買っておこうかな？
Steve Jobs’ iPhone 4 is a defective product. Jobs knows it is inferior. The signal-loss design flaw is significant. If everyone returns their iPhone 4 and/or refuses to buy them the design issues will be resolved — with a new design. Jobs has proven to be nothing more than a snake oil salesman ignoring the fact the he was unable to introduce the iP4 himself at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference because he, too, was holding the phone in a normal manner like you and I would and it wouldn’t work. Imagine being a mobile case manufacturer with 100,000 cases in inventory and no iPhones will fit your case because of the cheap-fix bumper! Return your purchased iPhone 4 and when Jobs gets a few million of them stacked up on his desk he’ll fix the problem. Don’t you fanboys/girls let Apple get away with this serious manufacturing error.
Yes, I am that person that accidentally dropped my 4g within hours of getting it. Got in my car, it fell out of my pocket and on to the concrete, maybe 2-3ft up and bam, cracked right down the center. I have dropped my other iphones in the past and never had an issue. Its not durable, and while hopefully no one drops their phone on purpose, it happens. I cant be walking around like I have an egg in my hand. Happened already to one other person I know. It is going to be an issue.
Oh and ps: I had a case on it.
@Francisco
Already done (Search ‘Will It Blend’ on Google)
Had mine 3 days, dropped it from waist level on rolled linoleum floor…shattered the back glass. And yes, it also had reception issues when held in my left hand. All the new “improvements” have made this a lemon.
i got my new iphone on Thursday and Friday i dropped it while getting into my care and the whole back side shattered. I couldn’t even use it because the glass was falling out. I think the new iphones are much easier to break.
Can I buy that broken glass???? Let me know i really need it
RT @benjaminferran: L'épidémie d'écrans d'iPhone éclatés ne cessera pas avec l'iPhone 4. Super – http://is.gd/cKb9i (là, c'est volontaire)
I agree new iphone4 is very easy to break. One of my friend’s phone was dropped from 5 feet and back side was shattered.
It depends on the angle of the fall. Mine hit the brick floor from waist height. The frame and the edge of the glass got scratched a bit. Otherwise everything is working fine, including the camera, which was very close to the impact spot.
Nothing is ever indestructible.. Almost all glass shatters easy, don’t criticize apple.. You can make the iPhone glass out of real diamonds and it would still break,. Diamonds are the hardest subtance on earth but they break easy. Why do you think they don’t make hammers out of diamonds
this article is legit. i sadly just dropped my phone while walking from lunch back to work. i am short so the phone wasn’t dropped from any higher than 3 feet (hand at hip) and the screen totally shattered. sad.
will the iPhone 4 glass break? Is that a trick question?
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