I got my first cell phone in middle school, and I knew that if it broke I wasn’t getting another one, so I made sure to hold it securely when using it, since I didn’t want to drop and break it. When I eventually upgraded to a smartphone a few years after they started getting popular, I held it even more securely, since it was even more expensive, and even more fragile. At this point it’s just second nature to me to handle phones like I’m transporting fine china.
I think I’m pretty careful with my phones. In the last 20 years I’ve broken only one. But they are easily dropped, I do it pretty often. Just because it’s something I’m always holding and moving around.
I’m not trying to claim superiority for never having dropped a phone - I understand that different people have different needs, and one of them is a phone that can survive frequent falls. However, I also recognize that features that myself and others use regularly are often removed from models that emphasize durability, whether or not their removal is actually helping, or just cutting costs. So I don’t want to push phone manufacturers to focus so much on that one feature - that is important to some, but not to others - that they end up removing features that are equally important to certain people.
I got my first cell phone in middle school, and I knew that if it broke I wasn’t getting another one, so I made sure to hold it securely when using it, since I didn’t want to drop and break it. When I eventually upgraded to a smartphone a few years after they started getting popular, I held it even more securely, since it was even more expensive, and even more fragile. At this point it’s just second nature to me to handle phones like I’m transporting fine china.
I think I’m pretty careful with my phones. In the last 20 years I’ve broken only one. But they are easily dropped, I do it pretty often. Just because it’s something I’m always holding and moving around.
I’m not trying to claim superiority for never having dropped a phone - I understand that different people have different needs, and one of them is a phone that can survive frequent falls. However, I also recognize that features that myself and others use regularly are often removed from models that emphasize durability, whether or not their removal is actually helping, or just cutting costs. So I don’t want to push phone manufacturers to focus so much on that one feature - that is important to some, but not to others - that they end up removing features that are equally important to certain people.