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Even the screen with its tempered glass isn't as fragile as it might look.

• ponector 3y ago
  If it wasn't fragile - people would not buy cases and protective glass for their phone. Old plastic phones were indestructible. I still have somewhere nokia 3310. It just refuses to die, unlike many smartphones I had.
  • chmod775 3y ago
    > If it wasn't fragile - people would not buy cases and protective glass for their phone. Well for my money I think they're mostly nonsense. I never use them and despite living in my pockets for years, my phone aren't scratched up. Cases are annoying and unwieldy, making it more likely I would drop my phone, and screen protectors make the screen look worse - which I think is what they're supposed to prevent? I often go 5+ years with the same phone, so it's not like I write them off any faster. My S2 and S5 both lasted for ages, and they both still work perfectly fine - the only issue is that software "outgrew" them.
    • manderley 3y ago
      They're very obviously not nonsense, look at all the shattered screens on phones around out. And there's absolutely 0 chance your screen doesn't have a ton of microscratches.
  • astrange 3y ago
    Modern phones aren't fragile but they are slippery, and it's still annoying to drop them especially if it can go down a grate or something. So a case prevents that.