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bbdd333Passenger iPhone survived 16k foot fall and still working after getting sucked out of the Alaska Air plane that lost a door panel in flight.
ocdtrekkie@bbdd333 If they haven’t found the door yet, maybe they need to start embedding them with AirTags :D
Leo 💪🏼
ArtemesiaUm, 13 year old knows how to get an upgrade.
Sensible approach. When an elderly relative wanted a cell phone, got him an old big iphone, stuck in a thick rubberized battery case. If he drops it it'll probably be ok, if he loses it we won't cry too hard, $180 sets him up with a replacement.
stevenray
Echo 🦊@leoboulton @bbdd333 @jerry well the simple fix is that you have to drop it from a height more than 15k feet, then it will survive
Greg Bell
Mike Sheward
Dial Tone, Busy Signal *biiip*
chebra@SecureOwl that implies the door was *not* in airplane mode, I think we found the root cause.
Adron 🤘🏻
vxo@adron @bbdd333 @rberger I suspect the phone was likely spinning at a very high rate of speed, which would have slowed it down. Anyone want to wind tunnel test a phone to confirm this? ;)
I accidentally dropped a water bottle off a TV tower from about 2000' once and was able to watch it fall a while, it spun up to a blur before slowing and curving back to hit the tower. The sound of its impact was conducted up the tower and I pretty much immediately heard the thump. It was weird.
Bekah D@bbdd333 no automatic screen lock time set? Interesting.
Cameopilot@bolderbekah @bbdd333 My thought exactly.
Seán Fenian@bbdd333 Not really surprising, as long as it was actually found. It probably landed on soft ground and the terminal velocity of an iPhone can't be very high.
Third spruce tree on the left@bbdd333 See - I'd buy that phone.
But I wouldn't fly on a Boeing.
Gorgeous na Shock!@tezoatlipoca @bbdd333 Why don't they make the entire plane out of the phone?
@indigoparadox @bbdd333 are you kiddinbg the roaming charges would be attrocious
George Yang@bbdd333 This will be used in the next iPhone ad.
Mike@bbdd333 That’s a to quality screen protector right there.
PNW Deb
The Doctor@bbdd333 Holy cats.
Richard K 
@bbdd333 that's because a fall that far takes long enough that the iPhone can relax its body to better absorb the impact.
Nazani@bbdd333
I'm more concerned about the lush green grass in OR in January.
I'm more concerned about the lush green grass in OR in January.
Sam Thurston 
@bbdd333 I'm an android user so genuine question: is it possible to set an iPhone so the screen doesn't lock after some inactivity?
alex.tm@samthurston @bbdd333 Why? It isn’t the default. And I thought people preferred having options (Apple is usually criticized for not providing enough of them).
@samthurston @bbdd333 🤷
I use it occasionally when working on apps/web stuff. iPhone sits beside my computer on a charging stand with the screen always on so I don’t have to unlock the phone every time I want to test a change.
The iPhone will lock (and require password/FaceID) as soon as I hit the power button.
The exact same option exists in Android btw.
Settings > Display > Screen Timeout > Never
@samthurston @bbdd333 🤷 I’m not here trying to tell people how to use their devices. You asked if it was possible (genuine question!), and I answered.
@samthurston @bbdd333 I’m not in the mood for a debate about the security policies of various operating systems, I was just trying to help when you asked a question. Have a nice day.
Tom Harrington@bbdd333 I’m surprised it wasn’t locked
Glenn@atomicbird @bbdd333 Yeah, it makes this whole story a bit suspicious doesn't it?
Nick@bbdd333 I wonder what the terminal velocity of an iPhone is?
RealGene ☣️
Mama Inu@bbdd333 wow - if that’s not an endorsement I don’t know what is!
Delta Sierra@bbdd333 "after being recovered, when airplane mode was disabled the iPhone's battery capacity was arbitrarily reduced by 14% through an iOS early update designed to facilitate a better consumer experience for next year's upcoming iPhone models."
Eric MacKnight
Timex Commercial 1989
Moonstream@bbdd333 I gave up on Iphones years ago because they would break if I dropped them THREE feet from the ground. I'm not buying it.
Oreo Speedwagon II 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇨🇦@bbdd333 And in other news, Apple announces its new iPlane MAX.
jesterchen42@bbdd333 SCNR
Riker: "You were right. Somebody blew out the hatch. They were all sucked out into space."
Data: "Correction, sir, that's blown out."
Riker: "Thank you, Data."
Data: "A common mistake, sir."
Is the air "sucked out" or "blown out" into space when the hatch opens?
In a somewhat famous Star Trek: The Next Generation quote Data corrects Riker on the 'correct term' for a scenario where a hatch on a space capsule breaks open and all the crew are killed. Riker: ...
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Those motherfuckers better refund the $70.
Those motherfuckers better refund the $70.
Charming Malcontent
David Cohen@bbdd333 @hacks4pancakes No phone lock AND it is open on a baggage receipt email? I smell fakery for Internet juice…
(((Jann Gobble)))🏳️🌈@bbdd333 THIS should be an ad for the iPhone's durability!!!
cheetah_spottycat@bbdd333 Yeah, being relatively light in relation to its surface area, I suppose it has a pretty low Vmax, and since it has no moving parts I assume it's pretty resistant to g-forces. Also it seems it was lucky to land on pretty soft ground.
MWT@bbdd333
Has anyone else given much thought to the fact that it was allegedly still unlocked when it allegedly landed undamaged?
Has anyone else given much thought to the fact that it was allegedly still unlocked when it allegedly landed undamaged?
Nini@bbdd333 So the old saw goes, had it been a Nokia phone of the late nineties/early aughts it would have left a crater some four feet across and six feet down.
Bart Veldhuizen 🚀@bbdd333 who uses no pincode these days? Smells fake to me.
Sir David Nielsen@bbdd333 @lisamelton I foresee Apple being pretty smug about this, and rightly so.
MackworthNew definition of “airplane mode”…