Mike Beauchamp’s iPhone has been through hell and back – and it’s still working. He tells the story in graphic detail at Flickr.
As the last pair of headlights approached, the semi got over to the far outside lane because he saw me standing on the side of the road. I knew this was trouble. As I watched helplessly from the shoulder, the semi plowed my phone at full speed, throwing it to the ditch on the other side of the highway. At this point, I figured I’d retrieve it just for the purpose of seeing the crushed iPhone in disarray, mangled and crunched lifeless in the grass.
Much to my surprise, as I approached, I heard the familiar sound of my ringtone — the iPhone was alive and ringing! As I picked it up and cradled it gently in my hands, I saw the screen displaying my caller ID — the screen still worked! I slid my finger gently over the answer slide and paused as I held the tattered and torn device to my ear — my heart must have skipped a beat when I heard my mom’s voice at the other end of the phone — the phone still worked!
Glorious. Apple should hire him.
Via Daring Fireball
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I heard that Apple’s PR actually got ahold of him to possibly do an ad. Seams like a strange angle for Apple to take though, when I think of the iPhone I don’t think “Hey! I’ve got to get that phone; it is so DURABLE!”
Great story, though. Reminds me of all those people who were worried that just dropping it would shatter the device.
Yeah.
My wife’s phone shattered after less than a 3 foot drop. After hearing how bulletproof it was, I was quite disappointed in that performance, and I was disappointed that Apple wouldn’t stand behind it.
I wonder why Apple didn’t ask my wife to do a commercial.
Why exactly should Apple “hire him?”
I’m tempted to swear for you being so… ridiculous.
My last patient was a bull rider who fell off his bull and then got stepped on by said bull, squishing his liver. While we were cutting his clothes off in the trauma bay, his iPhone slipped out of his pocket.
Who exactly goes bull riding with their iPhone?
Um, Andrew…why go bull riding at all is more the question that comes to my mind.
But the bull made a good choice of where to put his “foot” :)
to really make your ipod or iphone “bulletproof” you should check out http://www.vibevault.com.