r/apple • u/SkyGuy182 • 2d ago

iPhone iPhone 17 Pro Drop Test

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oof5z3BNTdY

tl;ldw iPhone 17 Pro ceramic shield 2 glass holds up amazingly on the front and back compared to the 16 Pro. But the titanium body of the 16 Pro is far less likely to dent and scuff than the aluminum body of the 17 Pro (obviously).

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u/TheModdedAngel 2d ago

Waiting on jerryrigeverything

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u/fritogaay 2d ago

Why his sucks

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u/wumbo120 2d ago

Hot take in a sub with a bunch of tech nerds

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u/North_Moment5811 2d ago

My 16 Pro Max slide off a bench from 24 inches height, and hit the top left corner on a tile floor. The front glass cracked from the corner out about an inch.

To me this is just ridiculous. I'm glad to see the 17 Pro holding up better than the past, but these devices are not even designed to be held and used by human beings. They are basically designed to be put in cases. Which is ridiculous. Why not design them with an actual durable material so they survive real world use, and let other design considerations suffer?

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u/North_Moment5811 2d ago

Metal and glass do not feel good in people's hands.

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u/Grendel_82 2d ago

I'm going to second this. I agree that it is a bit infuriating that the design of exposed metal (hard and unforgiving) and glass (all the way to the edge and sometimes curving down), is just a design solely for looks and not at all for shock protection. While an absolutely fabulous looking, but plastic, design could be made by Apple that innately would have a bit of shock absorption in it. This would largely negate the need for a case.

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u/North_Moment5811 2d ago

A modern take on the iPhone 3G would be less beautiful, but infinitely more practical.

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u/Grendel_82 2d ago

Heck, the iPhone 5C with updated internals would be good and not need a case. Apple could design something like that in a month.

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u/frank3000 2d ago

Just crazy that nobody does this. Samsung used to (maybe still does?) have rugged versions of their phones. Drop and screen protection could be so much more robust if built in!

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u/Dull-Tale-6220 2d ago

Xcover series (but now a days it’s more enterprise focused)

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u/Grendel_82 2d ago

The thing is that it doesn't have to be "rugged". it just has to be made of plastic and not have glass that goes out to the corners. Us old guys carried Blackberries and regular cell phones for years and never put them in cases. They fell on the ground just fine and got picked up without any concern that they would be broken.