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I'm not sure why...

muchdrama

May 22, 2007, 10:31 PM
...they insist on calling this phone "impact resistant".

You drop this thing on a hard surface, and it's going to break just like any other cellphone.
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TheNurseWhoLovedMe

May 22, 2007, 11:05 PM
muchdrama:

How long did you have your Type V until yours broke?

Also where does it say it's impact resistant?

👀
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muchdrama

May 23, 2007, 4:09 PM
TheNurseWhoLovedMe said:
muchdrama:

How long did you have your Type V until yours broke?

Also where does it say it's impact resistant?

👀


I'm assuming "shock resistant" doesn't really mean "don't stick your phone in a wall outlet".
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eddsmetz

May 24, 2007, 7:19 AM
It has a counter weight on the phone. If you look at the area by the flip hinge it has that "bumper" piece to it. No matter how you drop it, it will always land on that bumper.
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rytiffany

May 24, 2007, 12:41 PM
I hate to tell you but weight has nothing to do with how it will fall. Eevrything falls at the exact same rate. If they actually designed it according to the weight then I wouldn't buy this phone for the pure and simple reason that the designers were retarded.

If you were going to try to get it to land on the same part of the phone everytime you would have to design it with air resistance in mind, like putting a parachute of some sort at the opposite end that you want to hit.

A feather won't hit the ground as fast as a brick naturally but if they were both in a vaccum you'd see they hit at the exact same time from the exact same height.

Sorry, that was just a really dumb statement.
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dahottest_1

May 24, 2007, 10:03 PM
No, it wasn't. I am not sure as to how accurate it was, but dumb it was not. You're just being hypercritical and pedantic. The statement makes some sense to the average person: the phone has is weighted, like a loaded dice, for it to primarily fall on one end which, I guess, would be the most shock absorbent.

You just wanted to assert your "intelligence" and 2 cents: we didn't want either, your comment was just scathing.

BTW, we know everything accelerates at 9.81 m/s^2 in a vacuum thus falling at the same time. But none of us live in said "vaccum" (it's vacuum), we don't care.
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Cochalo

May 25, 2007, 8:54 AM
😲 You tell him like it is 😎
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muchdrama

May 24, 2007, 5:45 PM
muchdrama said:
TheNurseWhoLovedMe said:
muchdrama:

How long did you have your Type V until yours broke?

Also where does it say it's impact resistant?

👀


I'm assuming "shock resistant" doesn't really mean "don't stick your phone in a wall outlet".


Please tell me that was an April Fool's post.
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muchdrama

May 25, 2007, 6:08 PM
muchdrama said:
muchdrama said:
TheNurseWhoLovedMe said:
muchdrama:

How long did you have your Type V until yours broke?

Also where does it say it's impact resistant?

👀


I'm assuming "shock resistant" doesn't really mean "don't stick your phone in a wall outlet".


Please tell me that was an April Fool's post.


Actually...

My post "Please tell me that was an April Fool's joke." should have been in response to this:
"It has a counter weight on the phone. If you look at the area by the flip hinge it has that "bumper" piece to it. No matter how you drop it, it will always land on that bumper."
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dahottest_1

May 26, 2007, 9:06 PM
xDDDD
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pvq

May 23, 2007, 6:59 AM
The 810F Mil Spec testing says otherwise. Did you break one by simply dropping it?
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muchdrama

May 23, 2007, 4:10 PM
pvq said:
The 810F Mil Spec testing says otherwise. Did you break one by simply dropping it?


Never owned one. But that thing sure looks like it's plastic to me.
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cwcanty

May 24, 2007, 1:25 PM
my friend has one and routinely likes to show it off to all of us...he'll throw it at walls, dropped it in water, beer, and even juice. The phone is tank! And unless you have real experience with one breaking, I would be careful about how judge its durability.
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muchdrama

May 24, 2007, 5:46 PM
cwcanty said:
my friend has one and routinely likes to show it off to all of us...he'll throw it at walls, dropped it in water, beer, and even juice. The phone is tank! And unless you have real experience with one breaking, I would be careful about how judge its durability.


Yeahhhhhh...right.
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cwcanty

May 24, 2007, 9:44 PM
sooooooo you don't believe me? To be honest with you, I dont really care what your "opinion" is. I have hard evidence that this phone is durable as hell. Just ask anyone who ACTUALLY HAS IT!
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muchdrama

May 25, 2007, 6:05 PM
cwcanty said:
sooooooo you don't believe me? To be honest with you, I dont really care what your "opinion" is. I have hard evidence that this phone is durable as hell. Just ask anyone who ACTUALLY HAS IT!


Dude, I don't care WHAT phone it is...you throw it at a wall full tilt and that thing ain't surviving.
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cwcanty

May 25, 2007, 7:37 PM
whatever you say bro...I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree
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walkerwhitetails

May 29, 2007, 9:09 PM
This phone is a tank. I have had mine stepped on by a horse and I still use it everyday. No cracks or scratches, nothing. I have thrown mine against the floor, dropped in into water and even out of a tree into a mud puddle. Any phone that can handle this type of abuse is amazing.
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larzdj323

May 23, 2007, 9:52 AM
In reading the specs it says that the phone is Mil Spec 810 Dust, Water & Shock resistant. In my mind shock resistant means that dropping the phone will still break the outside case, but the electronics on the inside will be protected up to a certain point (a lot more resistant to shock than the typical tiny phones most carriers sell).
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wfine81

May 23, 2007, 3:04 PM
I had my buddy throw it against the wall as hard as he could, after much persuasion he did, the battery did come off but the phone powered up fine and made a call without any problems, he was shocked to say the least.
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muchdrama

May 23, 2007, 4:11 PM
wfine81 said:
I had my buddy throw it against the wall as hard as he could, after much persuasion he did, the battery did come off but the phone powered up fine and made a call without any problems, he was shocked to say the least.


I'm calling the bullshit flag on that one.

Sorry.
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vz_wireless

May 23, 2007, 4:24 PM
It's true. The Casio rep showed off the phones and had a guy throw one down on the ground...no damage, phone worked fine.

If you've never had the phone, you certainly can't call bull***.
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pvq

May 24, 2007, 6:15 AM
I have the V. Believe me i would never personally test any of the claims on my own phone. I'm just happy knowing if i accidentally drop it or get it wet that it will...in all probablity...still work. That much more than you can say for a razr.
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jskrenes

May 24, 2007, 9:07 AM
Good call. I sold one of the type V to a construction worker, he dropped it in a bucket of tiling grout, pulled it out, dropped it in a bucket of water, and scrubbed it off. Works fine. On the other hand, a fellow employee at another store bought a dozen of them for his store and decided to test them out by dropping them in his bathtub full of hot water (the instructions say not to expose it to hot water). Fried half of them.

Even on a phone like this...why tempt fate?
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rytiffany

May 24, 2007, 12:44 PM
I've seen that happen to old motorola phones a long time ago. I will say that after the 3rd throw to the wall the thing broke into about 5 pieces but it did work fine after teh first 2. We were drunk.
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wfine81

May 24, 2007, 9:28 AM
Thats fine, its not BS but to each their own, my only concern is with the antenna, im nervous that if it hits just right that it might break off, other then that the phone is pretty indestructable. 😎
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gunny

May 24, 2007, 10:36 AM
We know the truth 😉
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muchdrama

May 23, 2007, 4:10 PM
larzdj323 said:
In reading the specs it says that the phone is Mil Spec 810 Dust, Water & Shock resistant. In my mind shock resistant means that dropping the phone will still break the outside case, but the electronics on the inside will be protected up to a certain point (a lot more resistant to shock than the typical tiny phones most carriers sell).


So I guess they'll just slap on a new outer shell?
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ArmySF

May 24, 2007, 3:44 PM
muchdrama said:
...they insist on calling this phone "impact resistant".

You drop this thing on a hard surface, and it's going to break just like any other cellphone.


they ran over the G'zOne Type-V with an SUV, and yes it survived 🤣

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8LVWdZ_L5s »

😎
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cwcanty

May 24, 2007, 9:52 PM
muchdrama said:
...they insist on calling this phone "impact resistant".

You drop this thing on a hard surface, and it's going to break just like any other cellphone.



Hey moron....check this out. And stop hating on s%#t you have no experience with.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8LVWdZ_L5s »
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