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Santa brought lots of good boys and girls across the world new iPhones yesterday. Hurray, Christmas! Unfortunately, with new iPhones come the perils of iPhone ownership, which is to say, that many of these beautiful new handsets are already broken. Here are some poor saps who already busted their new toys.
So I got a iphone for christmas… And it broke already #fml
— Lily Woodford ❅ (@WoodfordLily) December 25, 2012
Got an iPhone 5 for my Christmas yesterday…it’s broke already. Nice one orange! #bettergetsomethingfree
— Robyn Kempton (@robynkempton_x) December 26, 2012
I’ve had my iPhone for 17 hours and it already broke. Wow.
— Tucker Rednour (@TuckerRednour21) December 26, 2012
Got my iPhone yesterday and I’ve already broke the screen #ffs
— Ciam Ladwell (@LiamCadders) December 26, 2012
I’ve had my iPhone for 10 hours. And I already broke it #tatprobs
— tRylance♡ (@tRylance) December 26, 2012
Got my iPhone yesterday and I’ve already broke the screen #ffs
— Ciam Ladwell (@LiamCadders) December 26, 2012
i have my iphone 1 day and its broke already #great
— FionaCooley (@FionaCooley_) December 25, 2012
Broke my iPhone screen already *sighs
— ella✌ (@meowmmm) December 26, 2012
Just cracked my new iPhone front screen already.. #clumsy #OV
— Donte Marcus Fox (@StarFox_5) December 26, 2012
So Fucking pissed. </3 already broke my iphone.. ! :-[not in a happy mood
— Destinee marie (@DestineeBabee_) December 25, 2012
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and may i say a big HA HA to those people
The level of sympathy has to rate right up there with ‘I just brought a brand new Ferrari and wrapped it around a tree’
almost as much sympathy as I have for someone saying ” I just lost my Rolex I bought with the spare change left over from my Christmas bonus I got as an investment banker”
its darwinism for tech lol
But the build quality?
snigger, plastic bounces much better
It beat the S3 in a drop test…
drop tests are pretty pointless, because you drop any phone bang on the corner of the screen its going to break, and if it doesn’t, its just luck, also you cannot drop phones so they land the same way
plastic is a far more resilient product than aluminium, for a device such as a phone, aluminium will scratch or dent, a damn sight easier that plastic which has more flexibility in it
and any phone plastic aluminium carbon fibre will mash the screen if it lands on the week points
so for me, i am happier with plastic, and even if they bring out an aluminium android phone, i would rather choose one with plastics.
at the end of the day dropping your phone may or may not break it, it just boils down to luck.
Well multiple drop tests aren’t so pointless, I see your point but I buy a case for any phone I get just in case, whether its plastic or aluminium they’ll both get scratched one way or another without any protection.
me too, case all the way for me, i am very clumsy
In that case, I’d rather buy the much more prettier iPhone over the cheap plastic of an android, and if I was that clumsy, just get a clear gel case so I can still see the prettiness and have protection too
you keep your pretty device, i will have one that just works lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=WdU29krrqqg#!
All depends on your situation, if Android works for you then great. I would have kept my Android phone if I was still using Windows but iOS just syncs up with what I have, trying to get everything to sync with Android was too much trouble for me.
Please tell me I’m not the only one irked by the constant use of “broke” rather than “broken” there.
You’re the only one.
I suppose it’s inevitable that a small percentage of people across the world will brake their iPhones, kindles, TVs etc. It must be pretty hard to break an iPhone though. I had mine knocked out of my hand onto a marble floor and it still works perfectly with just a minor ding to show for it’s misadventure.
Cars brake, iPhones break.
To be fair none of those tweets mention that the owner broke them they just say that the iPhone broke, Maybe look into how many of these new iPhone are dying from out of the box instead of laughing at people.
look at the profile pic, spoiled kids with no respect for the items they have been given, not one bit of sympathy for them whatsoever.
and we know they are spoiled little darlings because they tweeted about it.
and i shall now post my go to website for all things HaHa
http://www.nelson-haha.com/
They bloody do, unless screen breakage is Apples fault….sigh…fool…lol
Last count I made, 6 of those posts never mentioned the screens being broken.
A much better article would contain all those crying spoilt kids who got the wrong phone…..
I believe @fart was re-tweeting all those who were…unsatisfied. Mainly apple fanboys of course.
No, most of them are not Apple fanboys. Fanboys would buy themselves the thing, on launch day. These are spoilt teenagers who want their parents to buy them an iPhone because it looks ‘cool’, and their friends have them.
Two of the ten people you’ve listed are the same.
Well spotted!
Yes, spotted that as I was reading them to.
So Gizmodo has metasearched “iPhone” and “broke” which brings me to two conclusions.
- Gizmodo actually used the poor grammar of “broke” in the search.
- They could only find 9 people out of all the millions opened on the 25th so had to repeat one.
Wonderful story. I mean click-bait.
So how did you do it ?? Did you actually go look for tweets about new iPhones out of boredom and made an article about it ?
Some people just shouldn’t have nice things.
I’ve never broken any phone screen in the time I’ve used them, from my Ericsson GA 628 to the iphone 4S I have now. How people brake phone after phone after phone just baffles me. Just be more careful!
You’re very lucky then! I thought I was a generally careful person but I’m now the proud owner of a nice wee crack running across my screen, and honestly I’m not sure how it happened. It’s quite easy to get your phone knocked out of your hand as well if you’re in a busy shopping centre for example (it’s happened to me a few times, luckily with a shitty Nokia!)
I guess I could be lucky, will have to make sure I stay that way! – I can imagine maybe getting 1 screen broken like yourself, or 2 at a push, but one friend of mine has gone through about 5 or 6! Madness I tell you!
5 or 6?! That is madness. One of my friends cracked his screen pretty early on, so when the power button broke he was very tempted to replace the new screen on the new phone with his cracked screen cause he liked it so much…
The grammar of the word broken is appalling in these tweets!
If they’re looking for sympathy, they’ll find it in the dictionary. All of this could have been avoided if they bought an Xperia Go instead.
NINE! Nine people broke their iPhone’s…unless one of the poor guys had two for Christmas and broke them both. But i am guessing 10 sounds a lot better for a headline…
I’ve broken my Nexus 4 this morning. It fell off a ‘flat surface’ and cracked the screen! Bloody glass back.
A while back a friend of mine spent £500 on an ipad. Two hours later he smashed it on a flight-case and had to pay a further £300 to get it replaced.
Needless to say it was hysterical.