How many phone screens have you cracked since your first one?

[Squarehard]

Just your own phones, not someone else, though that'd be an interesting discussion too.

How many screens have you laid waste too, whether accidentally or intentionally?

 

[Smurf]

all of them

 

[Robin]

Just one, my iPhone 3GS. I'm pretty rough with my phones too, IDK if I'm just lucky or if people just really toss their shit around.

 

[oledome]

None, I've always had a case and a bit of luck as I do drop them.

 

[deimosmasque]

Just my LG Flex. And that wasn't my fault. I had it in my hand when I almost got hit by a car as a pedestrian so I basically dropped it because I was diving out the way.

 

[Sign My Guestbook!]

Never actually cracked a screen. Got lucky I guess. Only major drops scratched or chipped the body.

 

[Rocketz]

None

 

[Many]

2. The first one was from a relatively old phone (4 years), so I wasn't mad. The second one was from a phone 1.5 years old, I was so pissed.

 

[Inugami]

1, an early Galaxy... I want to say s3 or s4?

 

[Khanimus]

One. Fell and landed on the concrete outside my work. I've had small scratches on all my phones, but only one has fallen and cracked. The screen itself just broke and had to get a new phone.

 

[Give]

I never learn my lesson. I think I've cracked >75% of the ones that I've owned. Currently writing this with a cracked phone with no case.

 

[Jmdajr]

Not once

 

[GoutPatrol]

None. Including videogames, 1 (broke my first DS.)

 

[Godfather]

I've gotten cracks on the edge of a screen, or the back of a phone, but never across the parts that matter. I said 0 for this poll.

 

[amon37]

Just one, an old ass flip phone I had, that I shut my car hood on.

 

[Android Sophia]

Surprisingly, none.

I did crack the screen of a 4th generation iPod tho. That was a sad day.

 

[MajorTom]

Just one, but only the glass not the actual panel.

It was a Samsung galaxy s8, happened about a month after I bought it. Took it as a sign that I should have stuck to iPhones 😂

 

[Dysun]

I've dropped different phones over a hundred times and I always used a sturdy case. It never cracked, until one day it did. Now I've been dealing with that cracked screen for like a year and it sucks

 

[Wraith]

Never cracked a screen (knock on wood), and only had one phone straight up fail before it was replaced (Blackberry Pearl Flip).

 

[TheGrue]

None and I've never used a case or screen protector. I just don't drop my phone.

 

[kubev]

I've never cracked a phone screen, though I also always use a belt holster.

 

[Kyrios]

None at all.

 

[Glenn]

None. Never use a case and I'm I've dropped them several times.

 

[True Underdog]

Just one.

My OG iPhone...the day that the case for it was coming in the mail. :(

I was in college, had my bed lofted above my desk in my dorm room, alarm on the phone went off. I reached for the phone and instead pushed it off the edge of the bed. It hit a metal support beam on the way down and had a crack in the corner for the rest of its days.

 

[RCSI]

Got a small scratch in one, but none of them have cracked.

 

[C.Mongler]

Once. It was my iPhone 4 I think? I went a single day shortly after buying it thinking "man, I don't need this case, I'm not that clumsy, I'm not going to drop it", and of course that night when I was getting into my car after work I flip the thing out of my pocket and smash it onto the concrete.

I have never had an unprotected phone, and thus cracked screen phone, ever since. Cracked the shit out of several screen protectors though!

 

[Rendering...]

None. I've always used a case and tempered glass screen protector. I cracked my case dropping my old iPhone out of my lap like three times, but thankfully the phone itself was always unmarked.

OtterBox Defenders are clunky but they sure do their job.

 

[skullmuffins]

one, an old beat up iphone (4? iirc) that tumbled onto the concrete after a minor bike accident. The front glass completely shattered and the digitizer stopped working. I keep my phones in sturdy cases now, and so last year when I was hit by a car on my bike, my phone came out unscathed despite smashing into the asphalt.

edit: not a phone, but I also cracked the glass on an ipod touch when I bent down in my driveway and the damn thing slipped out of my pocket and fell like 12 inches onto the concrete. Of course it had to land on a corner.

 

[GDGF]

 

[Desma]

Always keep mine with a case and screen protector.

Did crack a few protectors tho lol

 

[Eila]

I think I've only cracked like the corner of a screen. I just don't drop them too often, and I have screen protectors.

 

[djplaeskool]

Only one. Was an iPhone 6S I use exclusively for CarPlay.
Somehow got the USB cable hooked on some cargo shorts. Went to exit the car and the phone got slingshot'd out of the driver door and to the asphalt. Just a freak act of physics (or divine punishment for wearing cargo shorts) lol
Was only minor scratches and crack to one corner. Got it repaired for like $30.

 

[Deleted member 17990]

None I always buy a case and baby it lol.

 

[WhySoDevious]

Surprisingly, only one. Can't remember the brand… a Sony one, most likely, before I switched to Blackberry.

My iPhones have withstood some horrible drops, but only because I buy good cases… started out with Otterbox and have now used Spigen for 5-6+ years.

I've cracked the tempered glass cover that I always install, but the screen and the back have remained cracked-free.

 

[MrBS]

Three times over the years. After the hefty bill last time I made sure to get replacement cover for my new phone

 

[Fuzzy]

None and I even dropped an iPhone 3GS 8+ feet onto a concrete floor when I was working on a ladder above ceiling tiles. I had it in my hard hat to amplify the music I was listening to and when I was about to come down I forgot to take it out of the hard hat before putting it back on and it went flying. I was really surprised there was no damage. I've never had a case or a screen protector on my phones either.

 

[Deadly Cyclone]

Zero. I don't use a case, either.

 

[Wubby]

The screen on my old T-Mobile Sidekick II breaking is the only one I remember.

 

[shockdude]

TPU cases are the best - cheap, thin, effective.
I've even purposely shoved my phone off a table to prove the effectiveness of the case. Never cracked a screen.

 

[Soap NickTavish]

Zero because I'm not a clutz (it's really because I always have a case 🧘🏻‍♀️)

 

[metsallica]

Never cracked a screen, never used a case or screen protector.

 

[mhayes86]

With 9 phones over the last ~15 years or so and Android for 11 of those years, not a single one.

Dropped my first Android phone at college; bookbag slipped off my shoulder, phone flew out of my hand and hit a metal hand rail and then landed on concrete. Fortunately the screen was fine, but the phone got a bit scuffed up on the edges.

 

[ClivePwned]

only the back glass screen of an iphone 4. I
Every since I always had a case and a tempered glass screen protector

Every time I see people with cracked screens I wonder what the fuck they've been doing to it.

 

[psynergyadept]

Never, Thank you Otterbox!

 

[Guppeth]

Only one, my current one. I've never used cases or protectors because they ruin the look of phones and make them chunkier, but I probably will in future.

Every time I see people with cracked screens I wonder what the fuck they've been doing to it.

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Watching TV in bed. Had my phone on my chest and forgot about it. Dozed off.

When I woke up, it was on the floor and cracked. It didn't fall far, and it was onto carpet, so I'm surprised it cracked. Maybe I had night terrors or some shit, and threw it at the ceiling.

None and I even dropped an iPhone 3GS 8+ feet onto a concrete floor when I was working on a ladder above ceiling tiles.

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Phones seemed tougher in those days. I bet the smaller screens and larger bezels helped. I dropped an iPhone 4S onto concrete and it got a tiny chip in one edge. It made me overconfident.

 

[Surakian]

I've only cracked one.

My old manager cracked my last phone's screen, though. She didn't know she did it though, because I picked the phone up before she saw she had knocked it down…

It was thankfully two days before the end of my warranty. Then the Apple guy installed the new one wrong which caused a dead zone on my phone so I had to get a second replacement the day after.

 

[Strike]

3, including the first one.

 

[The Albatross]

Had smart phones since... 2008 or 2009. I think I've cracked 3 maybe 4. I dont sweat it.

I hate cases esp once my phone hits 2 years old I usually lose the case. And that's definitely been the result of some cracked phones.

Ive very rarely cracked a new phone. I don't think ever. I'm usually careful with my phone's for 2ish years then I don't care. Live wrecklessly.

Something I dont get is that we have like .. gen 5 of gorilla glass or something, this crazy break resistant technology and it doesn't seem like new phones are any less break resistant than they were 5 or 10 years ago. Like I busted up my pixel 3 when it slipped out of my pocket and fell like 2 feet and the screen cracked a hairline crack all the way down and chipped where the crack met the screen edge. And then I see all of these reveals for gorilla glass 6 pr ads and it's like... A phone being shot out of a cannon or dropping 10 feet or something.

I dunno doesn't seem any better than they used to be. But maybe it's just selective bias.

 

[Nude_Tayne]

2 of 4. The two I broke: Galaxy 3 and Pixel 3. The two I didn't break: Moto Droid (original) and Moto Droid Turbo.

 

[Grym]

None. Shattered a camera lens in my last one though