The iPhone 4 tests we’ve performed here at iFix have come under scrutiny from some dark and remote places on the interwebs, and we are here to say, check yo’self.
The tests performed we’re done with Apple iPhone 4 parts direct from the manufacturer. These images were taken after a series of well controlled tests performed by our stylish and intelligent staff. The drops were made from a distance of three and a half feet, or about the height of a six foot person dropping the phone from their pocket, or a drunk chick sliding one off the bar.
Here’s what’s up….
The main thing that is adding confusion is ‘how many drop tests were performed?’
There were two total tests complete.
First round broke on the 3rd drop, on concrete, flat. As stated.
Second test, as requested by readers, was another test to see if it would break on different surfaces(carpet/concrete) if it hit the corner, fumbled, etc. It broke on the 7th, hitting the top left corner, on concrete. The second drop test is not pictured yet.
For the second test…The glass survived all drops onto carpet, and survived six angled drops onto concrete, but when dropped flat down the glass shattered. The seventh angled drop onto concrete broke the glass as well, but your local retired NFL lineman can tell you all about cumulative damage.
The following pictures(of the glass from the first drop test) ought to silence some of the doubters. You will see that these are high quality parts, note the laser etching on the digitizer cable, and front camera hole in the test glass. We’re too legit, you must acquit. More images to come.
if you’re out to prove it breaks, which we all know it probably will, then why did you not video it? for all we know you could have hit it with a hammer. In this day and age of technology you would think recording it breaking would have been a given. plus in the last article you said it broke on the third time. here it states you dropped it over six times.
Looking at the new photos. Am I right when I say that not only does this iPhone 4 not have internals to absorb the shock, there is also no LCD bonded to the glass?
The glass was dropped with no guts, yes. They previously mentioned that. Also, there were TWO DROP TESTS PERFORMED…during the first one, the glass broke on the third attempt and on the second drop the glass broke on the 6/7 attempt.
If you read it correctly, this would all be quite clear to you if you are remotely capable of a basic understanding.
We originally were not out to ‘prove’ anything. We did it because we are an iPhone repair facility and we were interested in seeing if this new indestructible glass was in fact really unbreakable. We did this with a group of friends very informally….no recordings were taken at the time. We decided to take photos and post it on our blog, not knowing it would facilitate this much traffic. However, the parts are real, the photos are not photoshopped and we will be recording a video when we do our next test drop as soon as more parts are delivered…we expect them in the next day or two.
From IFixYouri: “The glass survived all drops onto carpet, and survived six angled drops onto concrete, but when dropped flat down the glass shattered. The seventh angled drop onto concrete broke the glass as well, but your local retired NFL lineman can tell you all about cumulative damage.”
All drops onto carpet insinuates that it was dropped multiple times without cracking. Six angled drops on concrete suggest that it was dropped six more times (on concrete), in addition to “all drops onto carpet,” and still had not been cracked or damaged. So far we are at a minimum of eight drops without damage (if you assume only two drops onto carpet).
Additionally, once the glass is cracked all subsequent drops are invalid as the structural integrity is already compromised. Furthermore, the photos are not showing the damage of the third (aka eighth+ drop), the photos are of a repeatedly broken piece of glass.
The drop that broke the screen was “dropped flat down” without a bonded LCD or internal components to reinforce the glass or dampen the shock. Again, that was after all the carpet drops and the six angled drops.
They tried dropping it on different surfaces (hence the reference to the carpet drops) the only drops that should count are the ones in which the glass shattered and I believe the team at iFixYouri did a good job expressing that.
Bottom line is, the damn iPhone 4 broke. They just happened to be the first to show the world that it was not only impossible but…inevitable.
As stated, this was a very informal test. Plain and simple. We had parts, we wanted to see the durability.
The main thing that is adding confusion is ‘how many drop tests were performed?’
There were two total.
First round broke on the 3rd drop, on concrete, flat. As stated.
Second test, as requested by readers, was another test to see if it would break on different surfaces(carpet/concrete) if it hit the corner, fumbled, etc. It broke on the 7th, hitting the top left corner, on concrete. The second drop test is not pictured yet.
The LCD was in there…the pictures were of the glass taken out of the housing to show that it is laser etched with ‘Apple’. We took it out in order to show that the glass was in fact the iPhone 4 glass, with the front facing camera hole.
Why are you guys getting so angry over this?
It’s a piece of glass.
Newsflash! You drop glass; it breaks! All these guys did was two INFORMAL tests to see if Jobs’ statements were entirely true, and as completely expected dropping a PIECE OF GLASS on CONCRETE causes it to BREAK.
I am so flippin’ shocked by the stupidity of half the comments here, my only suggestion to “admin” is to stop while you’re ahead, things will only get worse when the apple defense force gets here.
Thanks to ifixyouri for doing this test! With double the glass it seems the iPhone 4 is an accident waiting to happen!
How much would it cost to buy glas pannels to replace broken ones, if someone wanted to do the repair themselves??
Those who don’t believe, don’t! But I do believe these images and these images are not fake! Admin please video your test to remove all the doubts!! 🙂
– Mansoor!
Glass can break! So what!