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After being worried about having fragile phones, i simply opted to go for function over form. This is my current phone, Ulefone Armor X7 Pro: https://www.gsmare

After being worried about having fragile phones, i simply opted to go for function over form. This is my current phone, Ulefone Armor X7 Pro: https://www.gsmarena.com/ulefone_armor_x7_pro-10293.php https://www.gsmarena.com/ulefone_armor_x7_pro-10293.php While there are more sophisticated models in this space, for something of a budget oriented phone (which i'll probably use until the battery degrades, seeing as unfortunately it doesn't have a removable one), it's both usable and feels rugged enough. No longer do i have to worry much about things like dust/sand or even splashes of water and such. It actually fell once from about 1.5 meters out of my pocket and on stone bricks, while i was doing pull ups. I'm sure that the situation would have been worse if it had landed screen down, but even after landing on its corner, there was no visible damage afterwards. Plus, after using it for a while, i've found that the larger form factor doesn't bother me in the slightest, so i'm not exactly sure why modern phones are so obsessed with being thing. Then again, i also enjoy the form factor of ThinkPads, while there are people out there who call them ugly and too bulky.

tunap 5y ago
My old Nokia 900 slipped from my pocket years ago as I climbed through a roof hatch, fell 25ft and exploded on the concrete floor. I collected the body, the sim, sim holder, SD card, SD holder, bezel, battery and battery cover and put all the pieces back together. It powered up and worked 100%, despite some cosmetic crinkle in the bezel. This year alone, I have had 3 phones slip or drop 2-3 ft(< 1m), from my pocket or hand, onto carpet and sand, and all came up with cracked glass, one with a screen that no longer lit up. Elegant fragility is the engineered intention, IMO For truth in advertising, they should rebrand it "Fragile Flower Glass"©.
- KronisLV 5y ago
  You do have a point, but i also recall some of the older phones also being fragile back in the day. If i recall correctly, the first mobile phone that i had was a Nokia 5110: https://www.gsmarena.com/nokia_5110-7.php https://www.gsmarena.com/nokia_5110-7.php From the outside, it looked like it should be pretty tough, yet when it fell off of a table and on the floor (not even hardwood, i think it was linoleum), it just straight up died. I bet that the thicker plastic frames of those old phones still absorb impacts better than most of the modern thin ones, yet a proper rubberized frame/case will almost always be even better. Plus, IP68 (which was described in IEC 60529 in 2001, a few years after that first phone came out) now being available in consumer hardware at an affordable price point is pretty nice! So it's mostly a matter of supporting the manufacturers who create the devices that you actually want. Maybe shopping around for a phone with a removable battery AND the aforementioned ruggedness would be a good move on my part.

tunap 5y ago

My old Nokia 900 slipped from my pocket years ago as I climbed through a roof hatch, fell 25ft and exploded on the concrete floor. I collected the body, the sim, sim holder, SD card, SD holder, bezel, battery and battery cover and put all the pieces back together. It powered up and worked 100%, despite some cosmetic crinkle in the bezel. This year alone, I have had 3 phones slip or drop 2-3 ft(< 1m), from my pocket or hand, onto carpet and sand, and all came up with cracked glass, one with a screen that no longer lit up. Elegant fragility is the engineered intention, IMO For truth in advertising, they should rebrand it "Fragile Flower Glass"©.

KronisLV 5y ago
You do have a point, but i also recall some of the older phones also being fragile back in the day. If i recall correctly, the first mobile phone that i had was a Nokia 5110: https://www.gsmarena.com/nokia_5110-7.php https://www.gsmarena.com/nokia_5110-7.php From the outside, it looked like it should be pretty tough, yet when it fell off of a table and on the floor (not even hardwood, i think it was linoleum), it just straight up died. I bet that the thicker plastic frames of those old phones still absorb impacts better than most of the modern thin ones, yet a proper rubberized frame/case will almost always be even better. Plus, IP68 (which was described in IEC 60529 in 2001, a few years after that first phone came out) now being available in consumer hardware at an affordable price point is pretty nice! So it's mostly a matter of supporting the manufacturers who create the devices that you actually want. Maybe shopping around for a phone with a removable battery AND the aforementioned ruggedness would be a good move on my part.