I think I drop it at least once a week. Never dropped it outdoors (yet)

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    I think I have dropped a phone either two or three times in the last fifteen years. But I still use a good case.

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    Once every 2-3 years maybe. Very rarely. I’ve never had a cracked screen (also not using any case or protectors).

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      Exactly this. I don’t understand the crack screen people but to each their own :p

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    Y’all are crazy. Very responsible. I drop my phone every single day. Often outside onto the concrete. I break my screen protectors all the time. I’ve only ever messed up an actual screen once (stupid like wrap around screen so the case was not sufficient). I buy extremely cheap cases and screen protectors, and they always work.

    I’m clumsy, but also I guess thoughtless. I’m constantly bending over to pick up my kid and it just tumbles out of my pockets. Idk. The screen protectors last between one week and 6 months. Usually a couple of months, but then the cracks/chips are so little I just take ages to replace it, so I’m only buying one like twice a year. You can get 3 for under 10 bucks so it’s basically worth the cost to not have to be precious about your phone all the time.

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    Almost never, maybe once a year if that.

    But I do consistently drop brand new phones within the first 3 months of owning it. Usually on concrete. Not intentionally of course… yet for some reason it’s happened to me every single time.

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    maybe once a month if even.

    only phone I’ve ever catastrophically broken by drop is a Galaxy S20; curved screen edges are bad for durability. glad most phone manufacturers have axed it now.

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    I have a benign tremor in both hands. I drop it several times a week. Sometimes just to the floor, sometimes, when I try to catch it and make things worse it’s catapulted through the room somehow.

    Don’t know what nokia uses for their screens but I have this phone for the years now, no screen protector but a thin case and no cracks or dents.

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      Most phones within the past few years should be using Gorilla Glass 5, which is very drop-resistant.

      The newer ones would be using Gorilla Glass Victus or Victus+ which is (supposedly) even tougher.

      Smartphones are getting better and better, and the only downside is the lack of repairability.

      I remember those early 2015-ish era phones where the screen was easily scratched. I love to see how far the tech has gotten.