iPhone takes on commercial truck, iPhone wins!
By Will Park on Thursday, January 31st, 2008 at 1:36 pm PST In Apple, iPhone
Well the iPhone didn’t really win, it just sorta walked away with its life. Here’s a quick little “How (NOT) To” guide for taking care of your iPhone:
- Don’t place iPhone on trunk of car on cold, windy, day in Kansas
- Don’t drive off with iPhone still sitting on said trunk - especially onto a highway
- Don’t stand on side of highway, waiting to retrieve fallen iPhone, causing a big-rig truck to run over iPhone
But, should you forget the above helpful tips, you’ll be glad to know that your iPhone can survive a run-in with an 18-wheeler and still work perfectly - albeit a bit scuffed up.
Mike Beauchamp, Kansas resident, apparently found out the hard way (or, really, the only way) that an iPhone can be run over by a multi-ton truck and still work.
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! I ran back to my car and sat on the side of the road for about 15 minutes inspecting it, testing it, and looking it over — how in the hell had it survived being trounced by an 18-wheeler at 70mph?!?”
Who knew the iPhone was a ruggedized handset?
January 31st, 2008 at 9:39 pm
Wow, that must be one of the luckiest things I’ve ever heard. I would have though that even if part of the iphone survived the screen would have been cracked and not work.
January 31st, 2008 at 11:56 pm
Did he make love to it when he got home too? Damn, that’s impressive, but even if it was demolished, he’d only be out $400.
February 1st, 2008 at 1:48 pm
I think the glass, capacitance touchscreen helped keep it from completely breaking. I doubt pressure-sensitive, plastic-based touchscreen would fare as well.
And, the slim, solid construction probably helped it survive. I wonder if that guy is covered under Apple Care