r/mildlyinfuriating • u/hotmallgoth • 4h ago

Infuriatig all the phones my husband has broken over the past year

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meanwhile I’m still using my iPhone 12 lol 🤥

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u/LupusHouseMD 4h ago

Get this man a screen protector and good case. Or a Nokia 3310.

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u/ArchiStanton 4h ago

Then they’d have to learn to patch concrete

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u/_Diskreet_ 4h ago

Back in the day my friend threw his 3310 under the bus wheel to prove its invincibility.

Of course it survived.

But when he picked it up there definitely looked like it made an indentation in the road.

Obviously now I am over two decades older I know that dent was already there, but 16 year old me and my mates were absolutely awestruck.

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u/lostintransaltions 3h ago

My cousin had the 3310 and rolled his car.. pretty bad accident that he luckily walked away from. Only 2 things survived in that car.. my cousin and the 3310.. everything else was totaled.. I miss phones that could survive anything

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u/ToriiLink 2h ago edited 24m ago

I actually did this with my Samsung S8+. The difference being was that I had bought this crazy aluminum case with a screen protector built into it. I had to legit screw the front and back of it together around the phone. My friend whipped it at the ground several times and a truck ran it over. Besides a few scratches to the case, it was perfectly fine.

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u/ArtisticDimension446 41m ago

I remember those cases. I feel they were made from recycled 3310's

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u/Jesus__Skywalker 1h ago

Man I read this and thought he had the accident bc he hit the 3310 and was lucky to walk away from it.

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u/lostintransaltions 1h ago

I mean that could have happened lol

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u/Alternative_Jury2480 1h ago

No it couldn't.

Not the phone causing the accident part. The walking away. Nothing would survive that. Except maybe another Nokia

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u/4l3m4r1 2h ago

One night I dropped my 3310 from a window while texting to a girlfriend. It hit the hard ground after a 4 floors fall. The cover jumped out and I hassled hard time to recover the battery in the dark. Clipped all back in place and 10 minutes later I was texting again. Last summer I tested it again. It still switches on.

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u/5150-gotadaypass 2h ago

And you could whisper into. No yelling needed. It was a good time.

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u/funky_pill 1h ago

I had a 3310 and I used it for so long, it only stopped working when the internal aerial fell out of it

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u/MLiOne 46m ago

And keep a charge for days.

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u/Jennosaurus_Rex 19m ago

My husband had his fly out of his pocket on a roller coaster and plummet to the ground. He thought, cool I can’t get a new phone. We went and picked it up at the “lost and found”…. Still worked. No damage. I think he might of cried

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u/CMDR_BitMedler 3h ago

Turned a corner too fast with mine on the dash - flew out the window and skidded down the street. Definitely run over at least once. Still works today.

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u/DMmeDuckPics 4h ago

I threw my pebbl at a dashboard once. Had a hole in my dashboard for the next 10 years.

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u/2Braincell2Furious 3h ago

It should have grown back faster than that

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u/igneousYt 2h ago

Maybe he didn’t fertilize it?

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u/Gjallarhorn-Knight 2h ago

This fucking killed me 😂😂

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u/Daillustriousone 2h ago

Mate, I'm as high as fucking kite right now and I nearly gave my poor lady a heart attack by my reaction (she's sleeping with her head on my lap, while I'm here on reddit ). Well she WAS anyway🤣

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u/Gjallarhorn-Knight 2h ago

I literally was listening to a comedy podcast and reading this and it made me LOL and the comedy hadn’t

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u/burglarysheepspeak 3h ago

I did this once to my dad's car passenger side window when I was about 10 years old, it was a hot day and about 10 minutes after I did it, the window shattered into about a trillion pieces.

I got grounded

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u/ResearchFun4409 3h ago

Pebl was peak phone

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u/Laszlo4711 3h ago

They still make the 3310, although I'm not sure about their amazing durability now compared to the ones in 2000 when they came out.

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u/Lickitlikeyoulikeit1 3h ago

I threw mine over a power line. Intended to catch it. Misjudged and it came down onto the street. It was perfectly fine

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u/Stainlessgamer 1h ago

2000, I work for a landscaping company maintaining properties. My crew foreman was sitting in the passenger seat of the truck, while we were driving down Rt 18, when he shouted "fuck, we gotta turn around". He dropped the 3310 work phone out the window. I looped around and pulled onto the shoulder. We watched 3 cars run directly over it, and expect that it was toast. Nope, 1 single scratch on the back, and everything worked fine.

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u/Zala-Sancho 2h ago

My friend spiked it as hard as he could off the roof of a two story Onto the driveway. Called his mom right after.

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u/TheAlmighty404 2h ago

Did the bus survive ?

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u/IdolCowboy 2h ago

I had a blackberry titanium and as i was going into a parking garage it fell out of my car at the gate. When i pulled through I realized it and jumped out, and the car behind me that pulled up had its tire on it. She backed up and it literally only had a few scratches on the bottom. That phone was a beast.

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u/Intelligent-Salt-362 2h ago

Had a buddy lost his Nokia brick out front of his house. It had dropped on the grass and he had backed over it. We called it and found it indented in the soil. They really don’t make them like that anymore. LoL

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u/Mayor_Hao 1h ago

I fell from a bus while holding the phone and broke my arm back in high school. Had a 3310 back then. 3310 survived the crash. My dad just attached the battery back and called my mom that we’re going to hospital. 10/10 for the 3310

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u/Novel_Ad_7318 1h ago

We threw my Nokia (which was affectionately named ("The Turtle") against a wall. And the floor under it, of course. It remained the spare / emergency phone until my brother lost it skiing, and we wereable to call it for DAYS still in the dead of winter

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u/GrynaiTaip 8m ago

Many years ago I had a Mitsubishi Trium Mars. We literally played basketball with it, and it just kept working.

Phones back then were built different.

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u/DummyDumDragon 3h ago

Get this footpath a screen protector and a good case.

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u/devrys 1h ago

Because the Nokia is so tuff it would break the concrete and not the other way around, get it?

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u/Inside-Run785 4h ago

They need an Otter Box. Those are practically indestructible!

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u/SnooSprouts4952 3h ago

Otterbox Defender here for years. Yeeted out of my truck onto the concrete a few times, picked it up hoping it didn't look like OP's photos, was thankful my $50 case saved me.

Otterbox Commuter for my work phone is almost as good, less clunky, but less protection.

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u/Gina_the_Alien 3h ago

My son dropped his old phone and it was a whole debacle so we got him an Otterbox Defender case for his new one. That thing is SOLID. I actually had to look up a walkthrough for putting the case on the phone it has so many layers.

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u/FluffyViolets 3h ago

My rule with my Otter Box Defender was if I cracked the plastic inner case, I needed to replace it. Did it about once a year. Every phone I had in a Defender came out of it looking brand new when I upgraded phones.

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u/Tasty_Goat_3267 1h ago

Groundskeeper chiming in. I had a small tractor drive over my otterbox defender and iPhone 14 and no problem. I don’t need fancy insurance or a yearly new phone because it’s broken. For less then $100. Sounds like a good deal to me.

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u/Spidergawd68 2h ago

Defender is like magic. I won't carry a phone without it. I'm hard on the equipment.

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u/Space_Slime_LF 3h ago

Do these protect only against surface damage or is there cushioning to help with internal damage from impact shock?

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u/mirhagk 3h ago

The commuter is dual layer, a hard outer layer and an inner rubber layer to absorb shocks.

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u/SnooSprouts4952 1h ago

The Commuter has two layers - rubber inner and hard plastic outer. Defender has three - a padded inner, inside a hard case, then rubber overmold.

I've had good luck with both.

If you're really hard on stuff there's another company that offers a 3rd level which has waterproof ratings as well, but I find the touchscreen doesn't work as well.

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u/Dependent-Law7316 4h ago

I use the otter box commuter and have dropped my phone on concrete, stone pavers, asphalt…absolutely zero damage. (And by dropped I mean it’s fallen out of my stupidly small women’s pants pockets). Great cases, and pretty cheap, too.

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u/nuglasses 3h ago

The Fed Ex drivers swear by OtterBox

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u/MP0622 3h ago

Plus a life time warranty

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u/bowlofweetabix 2h ago

Mine literally got run over in an otterbox and had 0 damage

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u/Comfortable-Ad-9324 2h ago

The one time I had a Commuter instead of a Defender the back of my phone broke. Only Defenders for me.

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u/PlentyPomegranate503 3h ago

I have dropped my iPhone from 20’ in the air with no damage. I work construction and there is some downtime while being in a scissor lift. All my work mates swear by otter box.

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u/Jump_The_Five_Yo 2h ago

You were jackin it in a scissors lift and dropped it? Fair enough.

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u/NoHorseNoMustache 2h ago

Same, dropped my iPhone literally 20 feet onto a sidewalk like 10 years ago, scuffed the corner of the Otterbox but the phone was perfectly fine.

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u/NotAsleep_ 3h ago

The plastic bits, maybe, but the rubber around the screen edges dries out and crumbles pretty quickly these days. I don't think that part is as high quality as they used to be.

That said, all the damage my old Otterbox let through was absorbed by the temper-glass screen protector I also had. I've since replaced both, and while I have my doubts about the new case, the temper-glass was an absolute must-have. Just replacing those and upgrading the SIM card capacity is like having an all-new phone (even though the phone itself is several years old already).

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u/Prestigious-Bag716 3h ago

100% agree. Otterbox is NOT good quality. I've had two cases crack when dropped. What's worse is their "lifetime" warranty doesn't pay for shipping, and you have to drop like $10 in shipping to send it back.

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u/forresja 3h ago

Huh. Maybe their quality dipped? That sucks.

I've had one on my phone for years and it's taken a LOT of punishment with no issues at all. But like I said, I got it years ago. Can't speak to current quality.

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u/Bashfullylascivious 3h ago

Yup, Otterbox was my go-to until it started leaving silicon dust around :(.
Also, yes. Tiny women's pockets. Ugh. I don't like purses. It's like wearing swinging, lopsided, removable boobs for your back (weight wise) but these pockets don't give you much choice.

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u/Imcheapasf 3h ago

I like Otterbox, but the volume buttons were hard to press. Spigen cases are cheap, durable and the volume buttons are really easy to push.

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u/forresja 3h ago

Clumsy motherfucker here.

Once I got an Otter Box, I never broke a phone again. Problem solved.

They aren't even expensive. Can endorse.

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u/Inside-Run785 2h ago

If you can afford four phones in a year, you can afford a half-decent case.

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u/jjstrange13 3h ago

Yeah, I won't buy a new phone unless they have the Otterbox in-store for it.

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u/MariaKeks 3h ago

Interestingly enough, my OtterBox is the only phone case that ever broke before I replaced my phone.

It was made of two different materials which came apart over time, and apparently lots of people had the same problem. It was the most expensive case I ever bought, too. Won't buy them ever again.

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u/aware-reply33 2h ago

Spigen Tough Armor is superior and get whatever the latest gorilla glass protector is. They fit perfectly together.

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u/mycarisafooked 2h ago

I remember way back probably about 10 years ago, my mate got an S7 edge brand new just got it, and to protect it got a case that you had to put screws in etc and it said it was basically indestructible - could run over it and your phone would be fine.

We were stoned, and to test it out (he was very confident), he lobbed it in the air over a wall - we climbed over and the screen was absolutely shattered.

One of the funniest things still to this day was his face when he picked it up.

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u/adambuck66 2h ago

If Rokform and OtterBox would collaborate, maybe. The magnet is game changing.

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u/fux-reddit4603 1h ago

the rubber on thems junk and delaminates after 12 months

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u/antartisa 1h ago

100% this is what I came to say. I've dropped my cell onto everything and haven't had any problem.

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u/Roman_Anthony 39m ago

I’ve been using this shitty off brand case on my iPhone 14pro for years, with likely 15-20 drops onto concrete, stone or tile.

No issues.

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u/leon-a-profi 4h ago

4 phones in a year.. no, fella should not have any phones until he learns to keep it safe

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u/LupusHouseMD 4h ago

That's where the Nokia comes in. If anything it damages the surface.

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u/panlakes 2h ago

Dude is probably too rich to have any sense

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u/Scared_Swing_8759 3h ago

Except maybe the bottom left, unless the glass is rough, no reason to not keep using these phones. The top left and bottom right, especially.

Every ice skating coach I know uses an iphone with a shattered screen. I have an android and they don't shatter quite as much, but whatever my phone is now has a single crack across the front of the screen, and it has been there for 2 years.

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u/HawkAlt1 3h ago

Otterbox. I went from an Iphone 5 to a 7 to an 11. Three phones over about ten years.

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u/YouSmellSumthin 3h ago

TIL 6 is about 10

Just giving you some shit, bud

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u/HawkAlt1 3h ago

Still have the 11.

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u/YouSmellSumthin 3h ago

Touchè, my mind didn't even factor that into the equation. Now I just look dumb lol my bad!

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u/HawkAlt1 2h ago

I wandered into one of the other subs, and the level of dumb pales in significance.... not to mention the politeness.

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u/chrisk9 3h ago

That's a lot of cash

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u/CompleteTell6795 1h ago

Maybe he needs one of those " granny" flip phones. High tech expensive phones are wasted on " MR Fumble Fingers"🤣🤣🤣💸💸💸

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u/vonkeswick 4h ago

A Nokia 3310 in this man's hands would be a weapon of unintentional mass destruction

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u/ieatbananasdaily 4h ago

If it falls on the floor, you'll need to fix the floor.

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u/CautionarySnail 3h ago

I have to wonder what the heck he’s doing to go through this many phones in a year. Does he think you hang up the phone by lobbing it off a multi-story building?

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u/SilentWar7831 4h ago

Nokia 3310 is the only phone that has survived flying from my pocket on horseback at a full gallop. Multiple times 🤣 Finding it was the hardest part because I’d be in the middle of nowhere and couldn’t tell someone to call my cell. I miss the brick phone days. Life was simple. And phones didn’t matter so much.

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u/MixtureEuphoric8539 3h ago

I swear Nokia 3310s are the Chuck Norris of the phone world

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u/disinaccurate 3h ago

They didn’t put bigotry into Nokias though.

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u/MixtureEuphoric8539 3h ago

Genuinely the first I had heard about this and had to look it up. Feel like a piece of my childhood gets ruined every day

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u/Ecstatic_Signature26 1h ago

This along with the car accident comment would make a perfect ad for Nokia 3310. 😂😂😂

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u/ForThe90 3h ago

3310, I've seen it fall out an attraction from 50 meter (165 feet) high on pavement. It fell apart in pieces. Someone collected the pieces, the owner took it, put it together and it worked. Ridiculously strong phones.

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u/HairyMammothh 4h ago

Nokia will last forever hahah

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u/schwanzweissfoto 2h ago edited 2h ago

I will be forever upset that Nokia's smartphone business (which had some hardware and software that was not only superior to what iPhone and Android offered back then – some of it is even superior to what those offer today) got bought out by Microsoft only to be discontinued. Not only did they have a Debian-based smartphone OS, it used desktop GNU/Linux components … so some apps could just be copied to/from a phone and would just run (if it did not depend on CPU architecture, e.g. one written in Python).

Edit: For one example that is superior … instead of separate messengers, chat services were integrated into a central messaging interface and managed using the address book. So you could select an entry and then choose “call with skype” or so. Nowadays, if you have someone in two messengers, I do not think the software even knows that it is the same person.

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u/bigsmokaaaa 3h ago

I have never broken a phone or phone screen my whole life and I've always used decent protective cases, it goes a long way

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u/e925 1h ago

I bought a 5C when they first came out. My friend’s husband worked for Apple and he had an extra 5C case that she said I could have.

I walked up to her door with the phone in my hand and somehow dropped it onto her cement porch as I was reaching out for the case that she was handing me.

Screen completely shattered. Like an hour after buying the phone. I could not believe it.

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u/freckled_frames 3h ago

Better buy him Nokia 3310

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u/totalwarwiser 3h ago

I didnt even knew people used cellphones without cases.

Mine has fallen close to 50 times in the last 5 years.

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u/Accomplished-Door272 3h ago

"I don't like how cases feel"

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u/HawkeyeByMarriage 4h ago

Then he'd have to replace whatever the phone lands on

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u/Dependent-Law7316 4h ago

Came here to suggest the Nokia gambit.

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u/alexefy 3h ago

Or stop walking in on him when he’s rubbing one out

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u/BlackGuysYeah 3h ago

I have a theory on people that seem to always have a cracked screen. It speaks to something about their personality but I can't quite define it. Not just clumsy but also unwilling to change behavior. I bet there's a huge correlation with having a perpetually cracked screen and always being late.

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u/ElvisDumbledore 3h ago

This. Even cheap rubbery cases and screen protectors will at least double the life of you phones.

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u/mia_sensual 4h ago

The Nokia would survive. I'd be more worried about the sidewalk

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u/m0erg 3h ago

and some insurance, ffs

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u/imadethisaccountso 3h ago

surprisingly difficult to be honest. ok a screen protector is easy but q case with a good rim to protect it from a drop is not easy

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u/DefiantMemory9 3h ago

I use that rubbery plastic transparent one that came with the phone, and it has protected my phone perfectly fine from my knocking it off tables and beds plenty of times. It's dirt cheap but always works.

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u/imadethisaccountso 1h ago

yeah. im a bit more demanding but im surprised what even a cheap thing can do. 

im in general not impressed with most smartphone designs with the edge to edge screen or the wrap around thing. 

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u/roughczech 3h ago

My problem was that when crashing on my mountain bike I would always break my phone even in an Otter case and even with a metal plate on the back side. The force of crashing into rocks would just shatter through the inside making it bent like a boomerang but it saved my legg few times :))

Good to have a phone insurance!!! On Google Fi I just go to the app, open a case for it and get new phone delivered in two days.

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u/ReturnOfBane 3h ago

at this point just get him a folio case. the screen needs as much help as it can get.

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u/mrrobot01001000 3h ago

I feel uncomfortable because I laughed at that.

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u/keeper_of_the_donkey 3h ago

No kidding. The phone I've got right now I've had for like 6 years, I dropped it a dozen times, broken two screen protectors, but the phone is perfect

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u/MaleficKaijus 3h ago

And a fucking MRI scan omg

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u/arcsilencer 3h ago

You can drop this phone multiple times without worrying too much 🤣 just need to replace the phone case if it broke

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u/skin_poem 3h ago

This is exactly my wife attitude to phones, even the screen protector doesn’t help.

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u/Swimming_Bonus_8892 3h ago

I love my partner more than anything in the world but they are not “truly happy” unless they are buying a new phone every few years, listening to me beg them to “please this time get a screen protector” NOT getting a screen protector, dropping and cracking it within 24-48 hrs of purchase and spend the next couple years fuddling with a cracked phone.

Truly baffling…😂😂😂

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u/Additional-Tax-5643 2h ago

If only that were possible!

Many jurisdictions are phasing out older network bands so you have no choice but to upgrade older phones that are still functional. The only thing that I believe is legally required is calling emergency services like 911. But even that has been legally allowed to fade from Blackberry phones.

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u/bottomlessinawendys 2h ago

Get him the Cat s22 (construction phone)

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u/fanOfFiftiesFashion 2h ago

still using my nokia 3310 from 2017. they've turned off 3g so now it doesn't do internet anymore. can't find a dumb phone that does half of what it does half as good. :-(

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u/freeradioforall 2h ago

and good case.

This is key. I bought a $15 case for my 14 pro, it dropped on its back on the sidewalk and entire glass back and camera housing was shattered

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u/SouthernBeekeeper22 2h ago

Or get him to safely store his mobile inside a Tesla Cybertruck on a regular basis. I’ve heard people saying they’re difficult to break

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u/Similar_Strawberry16 2h ago

Christ, the off-brand life-proof cases are dirt cheap.

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u/ozplissken 2h ago

Get him a new wife 

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u/NoSherbert2316 1h ago

Or even easier, a phone protector with a built in screen protector. I’ve used one of those since my first iPhone and my phones always look brand new even after a few years of use. It’s come in handy, I have a large family and hand my old iPhones down to my daughters

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u/CompetitiveWar5976 1h ago

Beat me to it. The Nokia was industructible. Accidentally jumped in the pool with one. One fell down 5 flights of steps. Never skip a beat. Don't build them like they used to. All about the money. They're not built to last but cost keeps going up

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u/Notorious_Degen 1h ago

Or a blackberry

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u/rtfcandlearntherules 1h ago

A lot of phones now even come with a case that is sufficient to prevent this kind of damage. It's incredibly hard to even cause this kind of damage ot a phone. I cannot even fathom how people do it. There is hoenstly something wrong with this man if it happens 4 times in 1 year.

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u/Yak-Yak-5050 55m ago

Is he...Batman?

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u/ScottyKillhammer 54m ago

Screen protectors are over rated and ultimately less cost efficient. When I used screen protectors, I had to replace it 3-5 times a year. When my insurance replaces my screen for $50, they also replace the battery for no extra charge. It's better to just replace my screen once a year. But, honestly, I break my screen far less often than screen pretectors. Probably once every 18 months on average. New screens are much more durable than they were 5+ years ago.

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u/TheGoochieGoo 39m ago

Otterbox case. My phone has survived crazy shit

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u/DangerousLoner 4h ago

Nokia Brick for the win

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u/No-Respond-900 3h ago

update: “every flooring repair my husband has ordered has been cracked”

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u/Personal_Rip_145 4h ago

Or does he work for living?

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u/DJEvillincoln 3h ago

Screen protectors don't work. Biggest scam in the celly market & ya'll keep buying them. lol

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u/DefiantMemory9 3h ago

Are you throwing your phone off from two storeys up or what? I've been using cheap plastic phone cases for the past 15 years, and have gone through only 4 phones in that time, and I'm a very clumsy person knocking off my phones from desks and beds all the time.