• wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    5 days ago

    They still have glass fronts man. Five-ish feet drop onto the screen against concrete with no case? Doesn’t matter what the back is.

    Glass backs mean that almost any fall will damage it, but non-glass backs only eliminate cases if you can somehow ensure it never lands face down or on a corner.

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        5 days ago

        But we just HAVE to have glass backs it’s the ONLY thing that makes phones feel PREMIUM! 😤 ~phone companies

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          5 days ago

          It’s the best way to ensure the resale market sucks, at least. As well as getting people to pay up for replacement parts/devices or upgrade sooner.

          I have a perfectly good phone, babied all to hell, lives in a case and never comes out, the works.

          Well it must have fallen at some point and caught the camera bump. The lenses are fine, thankfully, but it caused spider webbing of the back glass. I didn’t even know it happened until I saw cracks through my liquid case. Possibly months later.

          Resale value now significantly lower for essentially no reason. Almost like they designed the whole thing to be as fragile as possible.