[Kregg]

Here is a good true DROP story. I'm embarrassed to admit this, but I will.

On Saturday morning (only the day after waiting in line a long time) I was enjoying listening to tunes on my new iPhone and was getting ready to cut my lawn. I was driving my good size Craftsman lawn tractor down my driveway and was fiddling with finding a song with the iPhone interface..... When I dropped it onto the concrete driveway from about 4 feet. That not being enough, I proceeded to run over the shiny new iPhone squarely with the large rear wheel of my heavy tractor with me sitting on it.....

After crapping myself, I got off and picked it up. The metal side facing the concrete and the glass screen was on the rubber tire side. The back metal has a few burs now, but I'm happy to report the device still works like new.

Let see if you can beat that one.

[brokenjago]

Nice one!

[doctyper]

I'm a true iPhone klutz. I've dropped it once on linoleum, twice on carpet, once on concrete. That one landed right on the glass side. Not a scratch on her. I'm convinced Apple thought of me while stress-testing.

I'm much more careful after the concrete thing. It happened while I was stepping out of my car. I though the iPhone was in my pocket, instead of the car seat next to me. Well, I yanked my head out and... *cringe*.

Now I make sure my iPhone is in my pocket before making sudden moves.

[MaxieZeus]

My story's sure to be the worst of the lot.

First, I had a Contour iSee on the iPhone. Thank God.

I was walking down the stairs of my workplace (Boston City Hall) and I slipped my iPhone into my pocket... ironically, because the beltclip on the iSee didn't feel very reliable to me, and I wanted to keep it safe. For some reason, in these pants, the spare buttons are sewed on about halfway up the pocket, and I'd forgotten. The iPhone slipped out.

It went down the center of the spiral staircase, hitting the steel railing twice during the fall. On the first strike, the back of the iSee came flying off. The iPhone fell more than two floors -- five flights of stairs total -- before it smacked down on its back on the brut-concrete stairs.

It's got some scrapes on the metal on the top of the back near the headphone jack, and there's a tiny dent above the camera... both are cosmetic, and obscured by the iSee once I snapped it back together.

I've run the iPhone through every test I can think of, including using the camera, syncing, battery use, phone calls, vibrate mode, iPod, EDGE, and Wi-Fi. Everything checks out. I don't know if there are going to be any long-term effects, but it seems as good as new.

[::maroma::]

Holy crap guys! Reading these stories make me cringe. But they also make me feel a lot better. I'm still going to baby my iPhone.

[xi_hyperon]

Yeah, the last story made me wince. My iPhone has made it through its first week w/o being dropped, thankfully.

[amazing]

all of which raises the question of how people are going to insure their expensive phone against loss or theft?

[Simon]

Originally Posted by amazing 

all of which raises the question of how people are going to insure their expensive phone against loss or theft?

They're not. They're going to be careful. And if not, they're going to pay. Simple as that.

[alligator]

Mine will try to survive a FedEx delivery truck next week when it is shipped.

[PBG4 User]

Originally Posted by amazing 

all of which raises the question of how people are going to insure their expensive phone against loss or theft?

Safeware insurance covers fire, theft, accidental damage, power spikes, liquid spills, etc. The only thing not covered is manufacturing defects.

[amazing]

Has anyone gotten a quote from Safeware on an iPhone?

nevermind: Edit: just saw the following story about whether Safeware is going to jump into the breach to cover the iphone--if they did, it'd cost $85/year.

Macworld: News: Insurer may jump in to cover iPhones