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From: badgolferman <REMOVETHISbadgolferman@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: bouncing phone
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2025 09:31:53 -0000 (UTC)
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John Hill <watcombeman@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> On 3 Apr 2025 at 22:41:19 BST, "Alan" <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 2025-04-03 03:43, badgolferman wrote:
>>> Last Saturday I went on a motorcycle ride with my friend.  On the way
>>> home I told him to lead and I would follow from this point on.  We were
>>> on a four-lane highway separated by trees in the middle and were
>>> traveling 80mph when suddenly I saw something small and black bouncing
>>> on the ground between us.  I barely caught a glimpse of it and
>>> suspected it might be a mobile phone.
>>> 
>>> I tried flashing my lights and honking at my friend so he would slow
>>> down but he didn't notice, so I was forced to go even faster to catch
>>> up to him.  When I pulled up alongside him, I motioned him to pull
>>> over.  I asked him if he had lost his phone and after checking it for
>>> it he indicated indeed he had lost it.  We doubled back 3-4 miles and
>>> turned around back into the same direction we had been traveling when
>>> he dropped his phone.
>>> 
>>> Eventually I noticed two black items on the side of the road and pulled
>>> over.  He got off his motorcycle and walked over to pick up the pieces.
>>> A few seconds later my phone rang with his name coming up on the
>>> display!  His phone had survived bouncing across the road at 80mph and
>>> potentially other cars rolling over it!  There were two pieces because
>>> one of them was the protective case which had finally come off.
>>> 
>>> Later on I asked him if he had any damage to the phone.  He told me his
>>> Pixel 9 Pro had no damage and that the Peak Design case had some
>>> abrasions on the shoulder.  Nothing more.  I'm still quite impressed
>>> that the case absorbed so much force from the repeated impacts of
>>> bouncing on the road and that the phone survived the whole ordeal.
>> 
>> Do you have a point?
> 
> Well, *I'm* impressed.

I’m impressed that mobile phones have been engineered to take such vicious
abuse these days. It used to be a drop from six inches would shatter the
glass on my iPhone.