PC World manhandles the new Apple phone to see how much abuse it can take.
we stuffed the iPhone into a plastic bag containing several key chains. We then gave the bag a few good shakes to see if the activity would scratch the iPhone's screen. It didn't.
we tried to gouge the screen with one of the keys. We were very impressed that even this deliberate attempt to scratch the screen completely failed.
we released it from waist height onto a carpeted floor
we let it fall from chest height onto a hard linoleum floor
we let it slip from our fingers and bounce onto a concrete sidewalk from head height--as if we had been talking on the phone
The iPhone not only continued to work after each drop test, impressively it still looked good, too. The only obvious damage it suffered was a few gouges along its metal edge from the drops onto concrete. But its glass screen came through without a scratch, despite our best efforts to mar it in repeated tests of both types.
clipped from: tech.msn.com