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Essential Phone drop test yields unexpected results Comments

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  • LfN
  • 11 Sep 2017

Hmm yeah...

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  • gCq
  • 11 Sep 2017

on the phone's site "The drop test. We drop tested the Essential Phone on solid concrete to ensure that your phone could survive a bad accident. See it in slow motion." On Gorilla's site "devices were dropped face-down from 1.6 meters onto rough surfaces. Gorilla Glass 5 survived up to 80% of the time, far outperforming competitive glasses. "...stupid companies with lie marketing, this phone's screen broke from knee height on first drop! This is worse than the most fragile phone from this year, Galaxy S8. The Essential Phone started as a great idea and ended up as this year's biggest disappointment (worse than HTC U Ultra, which was a nightmare).

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  • Anonymous
  • AIA
  • 11 Sep 2017

Which means the repairability score is ner 0/10 since the back cant be broken off

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  • 7Ac
  • 11 Sep 2017

Kangal, 11 Sep 2017No, the premise is correct; Ceramic is quite brittle. There is always an explanation for re... moreI want Kevlar!

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  • 11 Sep 2017

Kangal, 11 Sep 2017No, the premise is correct; Ceramic is quite brittle. There is always an explanation for re... moreWood? (BTW, polycarbonate, not polyurethane.)

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  • uCX
  • 11 Sep 2017

No, the premise is correct; Ceramic is quite brittle.

There is always an explanation for results like this.
These drop tests aren't controlled in a scientific experiment, and when tested as such, we can gain further data.

A better back material still is Metal, Leather, or Polyurethane.

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  • ZloiYuri
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  • 11 Sep 2017

So ceramic is good, glass - not.

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