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Hopefully, members who are interested in drop tests will reply soon. As for me, I’ve always found them to be wasteful and ridiculous.
 

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Let's see them do it again, but this time throw it out onto the street and not conveniently land in a bunch of soft plans.
 

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Drop tests - even many of the allegedly "serious" ones that are on the web - are pointless imho. Hitting the ground in just a slightly different angle than the other object of comparison may make a newer, potentially more durable phone look more fragile. So as long as no real "lab grade conditions", are being used, I consider these tests as being not more than a waste of phones and time.
 

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Drop tests - even many of the allegedly "serious" ones that are on the web - are pointless imho. Hitting the ground in just a slightly different angle than the other object of comparison may make a newer, potentially more durable phone look more fragile. So as long as no real "lab grade conditions", are being used, I consider these tests as being not more than a waste of phones and time.

Exactly this.

I've seen screen shatter from a one foot fall and not do anything from a fall off a 12 foot ladder. It all depends on how they land.
 

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I want to know how they afford to pay for a new phone and go break it?

Most of those figures are promoters on social media. They get paid per views on their channel. Some businesses send them free stuff to have their merchandise advertised by said figures.

I try to steer clear of those social media figures’ accounts/videos/ads whatever.
 

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