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  • snooggums@midwest.social
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    5 months ago

    Yeah, no. The forces of suddenly being stopped even after a few feet can be extremely difficult to mitigate. Most electronics can survive being dropped once, but few are able tp be dropped multiple times, and ‘withstand being dropped’ sounds like it would cover multiple drops.

    The surface matters too. Most electronics are fine dropped on carpet, but fail on concrete because the surfaces are different.

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      5 months ago

      I’m using my old Nokia to this day. And why? Because “suddenly being stopped even after a few feet” wasn’t “difficult to mitigate” for Nokia. In the last 15 years this thing must have survived more than 100 drops, sometimes down a staircase. When I pick up the back cover, the battery and the SIM card, it’s as good as new.