Catalin Marin should be walking around the streets of Dubai with a new iPhone – and not the one he dropped from a building 40 stories high.
Not only did Marin’s phone survive, it was rolling video the whole way down. When he got to his phone, he was able to watch it play back.
“I had a bit of a mishap this morning,” he wrote on her Instagram feed to introduce the 15-second video. “Shooting from the 40th floor, my phone decided to go for a ride into the wind. Forty floors down, not a scratch in sight.”
Marin couldn’t have a better Instagram name – momentaryawe. Appropriately, he ended the sentence on the post with a smiley face and hashtags like #ohno and #freefall.
The opening shot is a beautiful foggy view of Dubai. It’s all downhill from there, a fast-moving spiral of white and architectural shapes.
It may be t0o chaotic to include with Apple’s “Shot with an iPhone” campaign, but talk about a testimonial for durability.
Marin does not say which iPhone model he uses or whether the phone landed on something soft. Still, how soft can anything be from that kind of fall
While the Dubai-based Marin considers his specialty architecture and interiors, he does a range of stunning work that can be found on his blog and website.
David Pierini is a former newspaper writer and long-time photographer. Considered a luddite by most of his friends, they did not believe him when he broke the news that he would be writing for a technology website. He is fascinated by human nature and would love to cultivate stories about the people driving the tech bus. Reach out to him at [email protected].
10 responses to “Death-defying iPhone films dizzying 40-story dive”
It appears that the iPhone was able to spin like an auto-rotating helicopter on the way down, which appears to have given it horizontal stability and a bit of lift by presenting its flat side downwards, thus slowing its descent just enough to prevent damage. If the phone had simply tumbled, it would likely have hit harder.
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If it falls like a card from a deck, then it hits its terminal velocity in a few seconds. Then if it lands in a freshly turned flower bed, it’s a no-brainer. 40 stories or 400, it doesn’t matter.
I don’t think it hit terminal velocity
Your move, Samsung.
That scraping sound at the end made me cringe
Was it one of those $49.5 Million Falcon Luxury models? I hope not. :-)
“He posted on her Instagram”
wat.
On another note:
#UltimateDropTest
Seems to me like pure luck.. I’ve known people demolish their iPhones by knocking them off the kitchen table – a drop of just 3ft… I’d like to know what case he was using on it…. As I doubt it survived without a case…