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From: Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com>
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Subject: Re: bouncing phone
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2025 08:21:54 -0700
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On 2025-04-04 02:31, badgolferman wrote:
> 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.
> 

Funny how you tell a story about how (supposedly) robust Google phone, 
but when you talk about how a phone would break it's suddenly an iPhone 
you talk about...