Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Alan Newsgroups: misc.phone.mobile.iphone Subject: Re: bouncing phone Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2025 08:21:54 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 45 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2025 17:21:55 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="46a75bc78880d62607c3c71fdd5969c1"; logging-data="3934409"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/bbm3iBIeKvjZHvcwLiwtg3ebgIYGrcJw=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:94snWWnUXxEppHCLwiS/FoGnluU= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-CA Bytes: 3455 On 2025-04-04 02:31, badgolferman wrote: > John Hill wrote: >> On 3 Apr 2025 at 22:41:19 BST, "Alan" 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...