Wow, iphones are durable...

[equate975]

I was washing my car at a self wash today, and when I was done I was walking around the back of my car when I noticed my shoe was untied. I stooped down to tie it, and my iphone fell out of my pocket I guess when I was bent down.

I drove off, and reached in my pocket to pull it out and plug it in, when I noticed it wasn't there. I was about 10 feet away from the wash bay. So I turned around thinking I must have dropped it because I didn't see it in my car, and I see another car is now in the bay I was.

Pulling up I see a small black rectangle on the ground behind the car. I go up to see muddy tire tracks going right over my phone. Hit it dead on, right over the entire thing.

Picked it up, it was all wet and muddy. Flipped it on, and the screen was just white with random lines in it... weak.

The neat thing is, aside from the white screen, its not damaged at all. Not a single scratch on it, not cracked or anything. I just had it in a cheap 99cent rubber case and a screen protector.

I can still make it play music with use of the home button, and I can answer calls because the slider is easy to guess where its at. Everything works except the screen!

Just looked on ebay expecting to pay like $200 for a screen, only $35 shipped!

I guess I'm just surprised that getting run completely over by a car, its not smashed to pieces.

[Ray Smoodiver]

Mine has taken so many drops and beatings its not funny. I have a first generation (first of the very first) and it's still ticking along perfectly.

It gave me white screen only once, in hollywood, but that might have been because it was about 30 degrees out, ie: bloody cold.

[T Verdier]

go to a apple store and tell them it just went blank out of the blue. see if they hook you up with a new one.

[Alkasquawlik]

go to a apple store and tell them it just went blank out of the blue. see if they hook you up with a new one.

this^

[equate975]

Mine has taken so many drops and beatings its not funny. I have a first generation (first of the very first) and it's still ticking along perfectly.

It gave me white screen only once, in hollywood, but that might have been because it was about 30 degrees out, ie: bloody cold.

Yeah I have a 3g thats like 4 months old lol. I am not allowed to have nice thing, the more I spend on something, and the nicer it is, the quicker it gets broken.

go to a apple store and tell them it just went blank out of the blue. see if they hook you up with a new one.

We don't have one. I thought about it, but whatever. I already ordered the screen.

[AndrewBird]

They aren't that tough:

http://www.willitblend.com/videos.aspx?type=unsafe&video=iphone3g

[Jand3rson]

Cool that a new screen is only $35. But my question is...

You have an iPhone. Why the FUCK don't you have insurance on your cell plan? :D

My phone is a $100 HTC Juno (Shadow), and I can throw my phone the backyard, smash it with a sledgehammer, call T-Mobile, tell them what I did, and I get a new one.

[nickpdx]

One time I was getting out of the backseat of my friend's GTI and when I was trying to lock the front seat back into place it wouldn't click into place and would just bounce back up. I tried slamming it into place about 10 times, and my friend did the same except as hard as he possibly could...then we realized his iPhone had fallen out of his pocket and we had been slamming it under his car seat as hard as possible. The screen was totally cracked - you could barely even read through it - but after we dusted off the loose glass shards it worked perfectly fine. He used it for a few more months until he got tired of looking through the cracked screen and bought a 3G. They are surprising durable :D

[shmutzigE30]

iphones dont have insurance option. found that out the hard way with my first one haha

[TwoJ's]

they are quite durable. I was riding my bike on campus the other day when mine fell out of my pocket. I didn't realize it, and I heard some girl yell, "Hey!" but I dind't think it was directed at me. She then threw and hit me with a pine cone. I turned around and got the phone from her. Problem was that it landed square on the lock button and it had pinched the aluminum (first gen phone). SO the lock button was stuck in and it wasn't coming up. It would just cycle on and off. So I had to take the fucker apart and bend the case back and pop the button through. Surprisingly the phones are really easy to take apart, I just had to pound some welding rod flat and make a tool.

[Ray Smoodiver]

they are quite durable. I was riding my bike on campus the other day when mine fell out of my pocket. I didn't realize it, and I heard some girl yell, "Hey!" but I dind't think it was directed at me. She then threw and hit me with a pine cone. I turned around and got the phone from her. Problem was that it landed square on the lock button and it had pinched the aluminum (first gen phone). SO the lock button was stuck in and it wasn't coming up. It would just cycle on and off. So I had to take the fucker apart and bend the case back and pop the button through. Surprisingly the phones are really easy to take apart, I just had to pound some welding rod flat and make a tool.

Or you could have used a guitar pick :o

That's how we used to replace the batteries in the first and second generation iPods. Was quite a money spinner on campus back in the day.

[TwoJ's]

There are a number of things I could have used. But I was at school, and I wanted to fix it immediately. The machine shop was close so I just went in and made a tool.

[Sean]

That's amazing. Did you give the person shit for running over your phone? lol

[z31maniac]

iphones dont have insurance option. found that out the hard way with my first one haha

That's why you call State Farm, or some other carrier, and get a Personal Articles Policy.

I have mine and my girlfriends iPhones insured for full retail ($550 with tax), no deductible, for like $60/yr.

[E30 Cabrio]

My 16GB iPhone arrives on Wednesday, and ATT does not offer insurance on those phones as I tried.

I also have a protective case on order from another vendor as I don't want to have to pay the full price for a replacement.

I never break shit, but I don't want to chance it as all it takes is one time...