Rather remarkable, but it does highlight the fact that Drop tests still can be rather random.
https://instagram.com/p/1Pcxwkl2aP/
40 stories and recording all the way down…..
New Drop test standard?
RockyRaccoon on 16/04/2015 - 17:40
Last edited 16/04/2015 - 17:40
Last edited 16/04/2015 - 17:40
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According to the hashtag, it looks like it's an iphone…
It took ~12 seconds to drop, it was 40 storey building.
http://www.ctbuh.org/HighRiseInfo/TallestDatabase/Criteria/H…Using this with simple plugging in numbers, the speed that it was travelling comes out to 11m/sec or 185km/hr.
That is impressive.Just something I found from googling…
There is an article that talks about why iPhone being dropped from an airplane surviving is plausible.
http://www.wired.com/2011/04/what-is-the-terminal-velocity-o…11m/s is not 185km/hr. Closer to 40km/hr, so not that impressive…
It would be more than 40km/hr. The speed after 3sec into the drop should be about 50% of terminal velocity.
There's also vertical drafts to account as well. If it was particularly windy that day, an upwards movement of air (which also caused the phone rotate very quickly as it fell) might also have slowed the phone by a small degree.
errr…. really wanna call bull on that one lol… In all seriousness, i don't think a brick (actual one… not the phones) would survive a 40 story drop with a minor dent
In a lot of drop tests, the phone is usually held up in the air and then let go by hand which means there can be very small variations in the way the phone is rotated which affects which part of the phone hits the ground first.
Unless you create a rig that would allow you to drop the phone in a perfectly aligned manner for every drop test you do, a drop test simply done by dropping the phone from a person's chest height is as you said, random and an unreliable method of testing a phone's durability.
Exactly.
BTW that's why I left out the type, as it's not about which brand, its about the way things are set up. A slight angle when dropped makes a big difference.
I once had a Mini which i took to the country, I was told it was pointless to put on a roo bar. I then hit a roo, at 80KPH but it was on the corner of the mudguard, the mini had a small dent and the roo was dead. At the next town the garage mechanic showed me holdens and falcons that had hit roos at slower speeds and were written off, one even had a roo bar.
But if you are anti a product, you skip these details dont you. :)
Yes it might be random but when we drop phones it IS random out of our hands,pockets on furniture all random drops id rather know how a phone drops randomly then dropped on a specific part of the phone which may or many not be stronger then the screen which as we all know is the most fragile part.
Again correct, but how do you consistently test and compare like random drops over a number of different products?
Honestly, drop tests are kind dumb if you ask me… most people use cases that "cushions" the drop abit… not to mention it doesn't really prove how good a phone is…
"Oh it survived a 40 story drop, it must be the best phone ever! #iamamoron"
If you do happen to drop your phone chances are it will be damaged in some way, and it will be random every time. Different uncontrollable factors such as wind, height (to a certain extent, by that I mean unless you plan it, it would be hard to get the exact distance everytime), different surface it comes into contact with etc.
I'm kind of angry they've got an open window to "accidentally" drop shit out of.
anyway, there will be a terminal velocity. No point dropping it from a greater height.
Hmm… and they were still able to retrieve the video… what kind of phone was it… the only phone that could survive a 40 story drop would be the 3310… and that doesn't have a colour camera… not too mention the end result would be like a meteor hitting earth…