[Swordmaker]

Apple iPhone accidentally dropped while photographing foggy vista of skyscrapers in Dubai falls 40 stories, video recording all the way down, and survives the fall without a scratch! — PING!

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[CGASMIA68]

So what

[House Atreides]

Just wait until Apple incorporates this new patent into the iPhones, one hell of a video would be captured during such a fall due to the falling phone’s stability in its fall.

http://gizmodo.com/apple-patents-method-to-make-iphones-fall-like-a-cat-1665632659

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Their iphones may be tough but their ipads sure as hell are not. This has happened to me twice already from dropping it from a distance of about a foot on a tiled floor while sitting on le toilet...

[King Moonracer]

Another jumper at the iPhone factory?

[SamAdams76]

These iPhones are pretty much indestructible. I've had my iPhone 5S for nearly two years and it still looks brand new and shiny despite being dropped multiple times on concrete and such.

It's never had an issue either.

[Solson]

Don't blame the phone. If I was an apple product, I'd want to jump off a building too. :)

I don't really think this but the opportunity was too big.

[Sequoyah101]

I can’t beat that but my iPhone has been dropped countless times in the last four or five years. I’m not sure how long I have had it. I even dropped it between the track and fram of the bull dozer and kind of ran over it in the mud. Found it and cleaned it off and made a call to check it.

Dropped it on concrete, gravel and bounced it down a set of steel steps. Still working.

I have had to replace the glass because I couldn’t see but the track pad was still working!

[CrazyIvan]

I found it amusing that it sounded like a helicopter. It should. It is a blade like shape constantly changing it’s angle to the wind.

[martin_fierro]

I wrapped my iPhone 6 in a heavy duty Lunatik Taktik case.

Adds bulk, but provides peace of mind.

[adorno]

So, can anybody tell us how many of the materials that compose the iPhone were made by Apple? I mean, the exterior materials and the internal too.

And, are those materials exclusively reserved for Apple and iPhones?

And, can the fall be duplicated to arrive at the same results?

[Yaelle]

And I only walked into the pool with mine for 2 minutes and it died. Sheesh. Lol.

(That was the only way I got myself an iphone 6 though, so I’m no longer sad about it.)

[xp38]

The photo impresses me....reminds of the opening of Star Wars Episode 2 with the landing on Coruscant.

[RginTN]

huh, my sisters new iphone recently cracked after falling out of pocket onto the concrete and she had a protective cover on it too!

[tcrlaf]

Make a hell of a promo for Otter Box.

[Kirkwood]

No evidence it survived the impact other than the owner saying it did. The video went completely dead at impact.

[Daffynition]

Thank goodness it didn't hit someone.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

They need tail fins to stop that spinning.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

..."without a scratch"

To be polite....color me dubious.