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Cat Whisperer |
$160 to apple yesterday to replace my cracked screen on the iPhone 7. Last night,I installed my first ever screen protector. this morning, I bend over and the phone falls out of my sweatshirt pocket face first onto a porcelain tile... shattered. Less than 24 hours. Fuck. That is all. Oh, I'm leaving for Mexico at 4:30am ------------------------------------ 135 ├┼┼╕ 246R | ||
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Man, that sucks! Have fun in Mexico, and when you get back buy an Otterbox Defender for your repaired/replaced iPhone. "I, however, place economy among the first and most important republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared." Thomas Jefferson | |||
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| Go ahead punk, make my day |
Screen protector for scratches, not dumb drops. | |||
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The Joy Maker |
I dunno how anybody can carry a phone without it being in some sort of protective case. Just holding the phone in the store gave me anxiety, afraid that it would slip out of my hands and explode all over the floor. My palms get sweaty whenever I see anybody else carrying a phone not in a case even. A Lifeproof case was on my phone before it was even added to the account. 
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Ha ha, this so describes me. I thought it was some type of psychological problem. iPhonedropaphobia Demand not that events should happen as you wish; but wish them to happen as they do happen, and you will go on well. -Epictetus | |||
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His Royal Hiney |
I have my iphone in a minimal protective case with screen protector. But isn't it ironic that we are drawn to the slick thin minimalist lines of a phone and then we have to put it in a thick utilitarian package to protect it but, in doing so, we hide the thin lines. "It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946. | |||
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| probably a good thing I don't have a cut |
Not to me. I would gladly buy a phone that was thicker by a few millimeters with a higher capacity removable battery but no one makes a top tier phone with that feature. And I would still put a case on it because it's an expensive tool not a fashion statement to me. | |||
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You must work in an office. No, it's ironic that we buy a phone that's expensive as it is, and we HAVE to put a case on it to keep it from breaking in the normal conditions it was designed for. | |||
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The Unmanned Writer |
Otter Box. Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. "If dogs don't go to Heaven, I want to go where they go" Will Rogers The definition of the words we used, carry a meaning of their own... | |||
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| His Royal Hiney |
By "we", I mean the general mass market consumers of phones and not the specific membership of Sigforum. The phone companies do their market research as to what people want in their product. If they don't deliver, their product fails to meet acceptance. Obviously, people who want a robust phone that doesn't need an aftermarket protective case, doesn't move the needle in terms of consumer wants otherwise that would be the product that would be available instead of the thin, sleek, delicate models that are popular. "It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946. | |||
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| The success of a solution usually depends upon your point of view |
That is why I bought a S5 active. It is built like a tank. No case or screen protector and after 3 years it still looks and works like new. I can't count the number of times it has been dropped and banged around while working around the manufacturing lines. “We truly live in a wondrous age of stupid.” - 83v45magna "I think it's important that people understand free speech doesn't mean free from consequences societally or politically or culturally." -Pranjit Kalita, founder and CIO of Birkoa Capital Management | |||
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Member |
Otterbox for me and my kids. Most of my friends who prefer to have their phone naked have cracked screens. It can happen to any type of phone with no protection. If I used my phone (any manufacturer) during the day without a real protective case the screen would be cracked in short order. | |||
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Go Vols! |
Was it a tempered glass screen protector or just the film? | |||
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Ammoholic |
Bought a new phone in August, decided to take it out of the case and look at it as it was designed to look. Back of the phone is cracked. Who's brilliant idea was it to make the backs of phones glass? Jesse Sic Semper Tyrannis | |||
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| Crusty old curmudgeon  |
I was an Otter Box fan till I recently bought an LG G6. I ended up getting a UAG protector for it and love it. It's not cheap at $30 but it's rugged and looks and feels good in the hand. https://www.amazon.com/Plasma-...=uag+for+lg+g6&psc=1 Jim ________________________ "If you can't be a good example, then you'll have to be a horrible warning" -Catherine Aird | |||
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EVERYONE I know has their iPhone in some sort of protective case to protect it from drops etc. Most of them have a waterproof case like Otterbox. I don't know a single person that doesn't have an IPhone in a case of some sort. | |||
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| Do the next right thing  |
Cases are as much aesthetics as protection. I haven’t had my phone in a case for about 5 years, and I've had no problems. I have a screen protector, but even that isn't always necessary with as tough as the glass is now. I'm actually considering not putting a screen protector on my next phone since I usually just leave the same one on and it gets all messed up anyway, so I'm still not looking at a perfect screen. | |||
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Beat me to the punch. A second for Otter Box. Vince | |||
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Nullus Anxietas |
I always use minimalist cases and forgo screen protectors. So far I've been lucky. "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher | |||
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I replace my tempered glass protectors about once a month. It always seems to crack just to the bottom right of the fingerprint sensor. Doesn't matter what phone. It always starts to crack there. | |||
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