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Hehe, very fun article, although it completely ignores a large portion of iPhone owners: women such as my wife who go out with a handbag and no pockets elsewher

Hehe, very fun article, although it completely ignores a large portion of iPhone owners: women such as my wife who go out with a handbag and no pockets elsewhere. Car keys and an iPhone screen are, from experience, not the best of friends ;)

gte910h 15y ago
That's funny you mention that: Scraping keys on the gorilla glass is the demonstration they do (or at least have done twice while I am there) at the Apple store to show you how hard the screen is. You sure you weren't scratching it on a diamond, stone, or perhaps a piece of plastic stuck to the screen was being scratched?
- cbs 15y ago
  Gorilla glass is nice, but its not perfect. I don't use screen protectors but the only thing I carry in my phone pocket is my phone. By the time I get a new phone, the screens are always pretty beaten up.
  - kokey 15y ago
    I always carry my iPhone 4 with my keys in the same pocket. Been doing so for about 14 months now, and I wear skinny jeans from time to time. The screen is still perfect. That said, since the glass is more brittle than plastic, and I do drop a phone about once per year (which is obviously not a problem for a Nokia), I have decided to retain my insurance on it. The iPhone also doesn't take well to being soaked in water, and water is something that can happen to a phone in many ways. Situations like a surprise tropical storm, an idiot friend pushing you into a swimming pool, new trousers that pops everything out when you pull it up after going to the toilet, condensation that forms on the drink with ice you put down on a table next to the phone in a really humid climate, taking a cruise on the titanic, etc.
  - gte910h 15y ago
    Gorilla glass is very hard. Keys aren't going to scratch it. It IS breakable though, and things harder than it (some stone, for instance) can scratch it. But crushing is the big thing to worry about.
raldi 15y ago
I literally tried as hard as I could to scratch the screen of my iPhone 3G after I retired it. Keys, paper clip, knife... the screen is unscratchable. Are your wife's car keys made of diamond?
- mootothemax 15y ago
  I literally tried as hard as I could to scratch the screen of my iPhone 3G after I retired it. Keys, paper clip, knife... the screen is unscratchable. Are your wife's car keys made of diamond? Heh, your guess is as good as mine ;) The keys from our old flat were a mix of both large old-style keys and some fancy super-secure-looking thing with a few potential nasty spikes on it. But still - I don't see how anything else scratched it when the was inside the bag :)
- dpark 15y ago
  I don't know if the glass is the same as the iPhone, but my iPad 2 has scratches on the screen from going in and out of a book bag (separate compartment, too) for a few trips before I got a case/cover. Metal might not scatch it easily, but then metal generally doesn't scratch glass easily anyway. A little sand or grit can certainly do the job, though. That said, a case won't protect your phone screen anyway. You need a screen protector for that. I don't bother with either on my phone, but my wife does.
tibbon 15y ago
When I had my Treo 650, I got in the habit of keeping my keys in a separate pocket than my phone. Yet, with the iPhone I stopped doing this more and more. Now I don't care. I have yet to scratch it or damage it in any way.
- bryanlarsen 15y ago
  If I remember correctly, the Treo had a plastic touch screen on top of the glass LCD. The worst of both worlds -- the brittleness of glass combined with the scratch weakness of plastic. Modern smartphones use Gorilla Glass or similar which is best of both worlds.
  - tibbon 15y ago
    This is pretty much right. Yet I never managed to break my Treo either, despite my best efforts. If the battery was still good, I still have it somewhere and I'm sure it would work. I feel I'm incredibly hard on phones, yet I have yet to break one.

gte910h 15y ago

That's funny you mention that: Scraping keys on the gorilla glass is the demonstration they do (or at least have done twice while I am there) at the Apple store to show you how hard the screen is. You sure you weren't scratching it on a diamond, stone, or perhaps a piece of plastic stuck to the screen was being scratched?

cbs 15y ago
Gorilla glass is nice, but its not perfect. I don't use screen protectors but the only thing I carry in my phone pocket is my phone. By the time I get a new phone, the screens are always pretty beaten up.
- kokey 15y ago
  I always carry my iPhone 4 with my keys in the same pocket. Been doing so for about 14 months now, and I wear skinny jeans from time to time. The screen is still perfect. That said, since the glass is more brittle than plastic, and I do drop a phone about once per year (which is obviously not a problem for a Nokia), I have decided to retain my insurance on it. The iPhone also doesn't take well to being soaked in water, and water is something that can happen to a phone in many ways. Situations like a surprise tropical storm, an idiot friend pushing you into a swimming pool, new trousers that pops everything out when you pull it up after going to the toilet, condensation that forms on the drink with ice you put down on a table next to the phone in a really humid climate, taking a cruise on the titanic, etc.
- gte910h 15y ago
  Gorilla glass is very hard. Keys aren't going to scratch it. It IS breakable though, and things harder than it (some stone, for instance) can scratch it. But crushing is the big thing to worry about.

raldi 15y ago

I literally tried as hard as I could to scratch the screen of my iPhone 3G after I retired it. Keys, paper clip, knife... the screen is unscratchable. Are your wife's car keys made of diamond?

mootothemax 15y ago
I literally tried as hard as I could to scratch the screen of my iPhone 3G after I retired it. Keys, paper clip, knife... the screen is unscratchable. Are your wife's car keys made of diamond? Heh, your guess is as good as mine ;) The keys from our old flat were a mix of both large old-style keys and some fancy super-secure-looking thing with a few potential nasty spikes on it. But still - I don't see how anything else scratched it when the was inside the bag :)
dpark 15y ago
I don't know if the glass is the same as the iPhone, but my iPad 2 has scratches on the screen from going in and out of a book bag (separate compartment, too) for a few trips before I got a case/cover. Metal might not scatch it easily, but then metal generally doesn't scratch glass easily anyway. A little sand or grit can certainly do the job, though. That said, a case won't protect your phone screen anyway. You need a screen protector for that. I don't bother with either on my phone, but my wife does.

tibbon 15y ago

When I had my Treo 650, I got in the habit of keeping my keys in a separate pocket than my phone. Yet, with the iPhone I stopped doing this more and more. Now I don't care. I have yet to scratch it or damage it in any way.

bryanlarsen 15y ago
If I remember correctly, the Treo had a plastic touch screen on top of the glass LCD. The worst of both worlds -- the brittleness of glass combined with the scratch weakness of plastic. Modern smartphones use Gorilla Glass or similar which is best of both worlds.
- tibbon 15y ago
  This is pretty much right. Yet I never managed to break my Treo either, despite my best efforts. If the battery was still good, I still have it somewhere and I'm sure it would work. I feel I'm incredibly hard on phones, yet I have yet to break one.