iPhone 7 Plus survives 300-foot drop from amusement park ride in Florida
Apple has never claimed that the iPhone is indestructible, but another news story finds one of the devices continuing to work after falling hundreds of feet to the ground from an amusement park ride, while filming the descent the whole time.
In the last week, news stories have found iPhones dropped both off of a boat and off of a small airplane and continuing to work afterwards. The latest incident involves an iPhone 7 Plus falling from the top of a swinging amusement park ride in Florida.
Not only did it land without breaking, but it continued to film throughout the drop -- with the camera still running when she retrieved the phone at the bottom of the ride.
According to the Click Orlando website, Cansel Yildirim was riding on the StarFlyer, the world's largest at 450 feet, that opened in Orlando in early summer.
She filmed with its video camera, as she and a male companion enjoyed the ride. But, then she dropped the phone, which continued to film as it tumbled hundreds of feet to the ground.
Just like the woman in Iowa last week who dropped her phone from a plane and later found it intact, Yildirim used Find My iPhone to retrieve the device, which somehow survived the drop even though it did not have a case.
This iPhone did have a scratch, but otherwise continued to work.
In the last week, news stories have found iPhones dropped both off of a boat and off of a small airplane and continuing to work afterwards. The latest incident involves an iPhone 7 Plus falling from the top of a swinging amusement park ride in Florida.
Not only did it land without breaking, but it continued to film throughout the drop -- with the camera still running when she retrieved the phone at the bottom of the ride.
According to the Click Orlando website, Cansel Yildirim was riding on the StarFlyer, the world's largest at 450 feet, that opened in Orlando in early summer.
She filmed with its video camera, as she and a male companion enjoyed the ride. But, then she dropped the phone, which continued to film as it tumbled hundreds of feet to the ground.
Just like the woman in Iowa last week who dropped her phone from a plane and later found it intact, Yildirim used Find My iPhone to retrieve the device, which somehow survived the drop even though it did not have a case.
This iPhone did have a scratch, but otherwise continued to work.
Comments
Its whole life flashes before its camera just before the end...
But wait, what’s that final frame? Is that a digital angel or a tunnel to silicon heaven?
Nintendo strap anyone?
Where are all the Android storied like this since they like to pick on Apple for be frail.
I was hoping that Nicole had something on her site about falling flat plates in free fall, and vortex shedding, which I think is the phenomenon that is occurring. That phones can reach what looks to be a stable, spinning configuration is interesting.
Here's something that's way outside my league;
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/8841/b35f0d2d00ce44539d23c3a000f94470a909.pdf
"Abstract. The phenomenon of flutter and tumble of objects in free fall has been studied using two- dimensional numerical simulations of uniform flow past a plate which is free to rotate about a fixed axis through its centroid. Particular focus is on the effect of Reynolds number and plate thickness-to-length ratio on the flutter-to-tumble transition and on the observed frequency of the angular motions. Simulations indicate that the tendency to tumble increases with increasing Reynolds number and decreasing thickness ratio. A case is also made that the tumbling frequency for two-dimensional plates is governed by a Kar- man type vortex shedding process. These results for this pinned plate have also been verified by simulating a limited number of free-fall cases."
Here's an unrelated post from Nicole;
http://fyfluiddynamics.com/post/175849526230/when-i-was-a-child-my-father-would-take-me-trout
https://www.phonearena.com/news/OnePlus-3-survives-insane-aerial-drop-test-from-750-feet-above-ground_id83993