Think your iPhone can survive a drop? What about from 1 metre? 3 metres? Or how about a drop from over 30,000 metres?
That’s what a Taiwan-based smartphone case maker wanted to find out, so it conducted what could be one of the most epic iPhone drop tests yet by sending it more than 30km above the ground.
It all started from the CEO’s crazy idea
Rhino Shield. Pte.Ltd. and Sent Into Space Ltd. (UK) teamed up to break the record for highest drop of a mobile phone in a phone case (natural landforms). The company dropped the iPhone 17 Pro equipped with its special phone case from a height of 100,416 feet (30,607 metres) above Earth. That’s more than triple the height of the world’s tallest mountain Mount Everest 29,031 feet (8,848 metres).
