Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote:
Am 03.05.2007 um 13:32 schrieb Ian Stirling:
wim delvaux wrote:
FWIW,
most of these 'light' phones do seem so 'fragile'. It looks like any
drop from pocket or table might smash them to bits. Less weight
generally means more flimsy devices.
No. It is easy to make a fragile looking device that is robust and vice
versa.
It is more the mixture of materials that determines the robustness and
finishing which determines how robust it looks. And finally a smaller
device has less inertia so it is more robust. Look at an ant. It can
fall from 10m and survives...
That's not solely robustness though, air resistance helps lots too.
I suppose it's not that long given current trends till phones can be
dropped from any distance as they'll hit terminal velocity at a safe speed.
I suppose some stuff - microSD cards, for example, already can be
dropped from any height.
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