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Why Phones Can Survive a 16,000-Foot Drop From a Plane | WSJ


An Apple iPhone that flew out of an Alaska Airlines flight at 16,000 feet survived without a scratch. How is that possible? Was it the phone case? Are iPhones becoming more durable?

WSJ’s Joanna Stern decided to find out by launching iPhones 14s and Samsung Galaxy S23s out of a phone-dropping drone.

Chapters:
0:00 Dropping phones
0:50 Grass tests
2:31 Asphalt tests
4:42 Drone vs. airplane
5:45 Takeaways

Tech Things With Joanna Stern
Everything is now a tech thing. In creative and humorous videos, WSJ senior personal tech columnist Joanna Stern explains and reviews the products, services and trends that are changing our world.

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