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Why use phone when PC best?

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (5 children)

What are you people doing to your phones? Since smartphones started being a thing I haven't cracked a single screen, and yes I do drop them. Not daily, but it happens. Not onto concrete from the 4th floor either.

Or: Maybe spend more than 100$ on a phone and it'll actually be fine, cause it isn't shit?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

My mother threw my phone out the window of the third floor once and a car drove over it .... I could see all the screen but it was like split horizontally from a green and a red filter the touch worked only on the bottom half so I used to split screen with a useless app just so that the whole interested app stayed in the working area ...I used the phone like that for a couple of months till i caught a bad glass splinter still have it in my finger today ... 8 years later ... I have more stories if you like ...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How do you know you still have the glass in your finger? Does it hurt still? Or do you just feel it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's on the tip of the finger so it doesn't get pushed often and you have to get a specific angle to feal it sting a bit... Never properly found it, being glass it's so hard to see and those shard are so tiny (something like windscreens with chunks and super small shards... ) yeah never spoke about that either... I feared taking "a beat" from my mother shes kinda old school 😅

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

ugh those shards may start to wander, i'd get it checked out and removed. i had something similar as a child, but they x-rayed the finger, cut it up and got everything out

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I’ve been barebacking an iPhone XS since launch and it’s been pretty resilient, tanking a few solid drops. The Batman iPhone 5 was the absolute nadir for every drop causing visible damage.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I got a Pixel 8 after my past phone being an S9+. It turns out, so many people are smashing screens that they've softened Gorilla Glass, which means it doesn't shatter as easy but scratches more. I had a scratch from putting it in my pocket on day 1. Now I understand why people use screen protectors when I never have needed one in the past.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

i was the same, stopped using cases and screen protectors altogether as nothing ever happened. then I've dropped my phone, fixed the screen, and broke it again a dew months later. i'm back to using cases, no streak lasts forever

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I've Only ever cracked one screen and it wasn't by dropping it but by having the phone in my pocket with the screen pointing away from me while I used my hip to push a cart at work. It was only a very small hairline crack but the screen and touch stopped working.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I've owned about ten smartphones at this point and I've saved them all over the years.

Never cracked one and I still use my old devices once in a while for fun or for a project. And I'm not easy with my devices, I take them to work on construction jobs, have them in my pocket all day while working and set them down with all my tools. I'm careful enough and over the years, I've never lost a phone.

My wife is not as active as me and doesn't do much physical work .... but for whatever reason, she's broken two phones ... one while in her jacket pocket that flopped out and got bent in half and crushed with a car door.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

It might be your wife, but it might also be ladies clothing that is to blame. As guys we get nice big jean pockets to keep our phones in, ladies just get tiny useless pockets if they even exist, which is why the phone is in the jacket pocket instead, and way less secure than jeans because the opening is likely at the side, not the top.

My dad used to keep his phone in his chest pocket on his shirt, and lost it in water twice. Once leaning over the toilet and it dropped in, the other leaning over a lake when he was fishing. RIP.

Where you store your phone when not in use makes a big difference lol.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

i remember back in school a lot of girls would keep their phones in their BACK pockets, which of course on women's pants can fit slightly more than half of the phone. i wonder why they all had cracked screens..

adding onto this is the modern insistence on phones being high-tech glass panes, and them sorta being a piece of jewelry so god forbid you put on a proper rubbery case that actually protects it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I don't know how I went so long without breaking a screen. Galaxy S3 to iPhone 5s across 4 or 5 years, scuffed edges but never the screen.

It was the galaxy S7 that finally went. I swear I dropped it a foot or less while sitting down in my car. From coat pocket into the console gap. Not out even out the door, and that had happened before without breaking. I was so mad that that was what did it.

I didn't even use a case religiously until the S7! I blame the obsession with all glass phones.

[–] Glowstick 9 points 1 month ago

Put a case and a glass screen protector on (not just a plastic sticker)

[–] Vinny_93 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

My pc doesn't fit inside my pocket

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

eminem famously fits his laptop in his back pocket, so skill issue?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

first thing i do with a new phone is wrap a case around it just to not do that

[–] Macaroni_ninja 5 points 1 month ago

Case + quality screen protector on day 1. For me its weird to hold a phone without a case. Especially some high-end device, which costs a fortune.

[–] M137 5 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

That's why I buy phones which are repairable and don't shatter when you sneeze too violently.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It's that still a problem? I have had the same not premium phone for 4 or 5 years, without a case or screen protector, and I drop this motherfucker all the time and the screen is fine. It has big crack on the back, though, but so do I.

[–] j4k3 2 points 1 month ago

Most of mine that I've damaged also involved shattering me, with my breaks being worse. When do we get biotech with stem cells and caloric charges? Here you go little buddy, have a treat. Scroll smoothly now; you can really pay attention to the beeps and boops.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I used to use cases. Then I started buying old refurbs for like $120 two at time. Now those that are considered old refurbs are $500+ so back to cases.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I drop my phone at least once a week (a few times onto concrete in a parking garage or asphalt driveway), and I've had it for about 2 years. 0 cracks, still using the screen protector and case from when I got it. The screen protector has a few scratches, and the small bit of case above the charging port broke off, but the phone itself (pixel 7pro) is still pristine.