“A [Turkish] woman was recording a video at the top of a 450-foot ride in Florida when she says she dropped it, and her phone continued recording until she found it in near-perfect condition when the ride ended,” Erik Sandoval reports for Click Orlando. “Cansel Yildirim was on the StarFlyer, the world’s tallest swing ride, which flies over International Drive in Orlando, Wednesday night and wanted to capture the moment when she and the man she was riding with got to the top.”
“After a few seconds of recording cellphone video of them flying over the city, Yildirim dropped her iPhone 7 Plus and watched as it tumbled hundreds of feet to the ground. Since she didn’t have a case protecting it, there was little reason to believe it wouldn’t be shattered to pieces — if she could even find it,” Sandoval reports. “Yildirim said that when the swings returned to the bottom, she got off and used the Find My iPhone app to locate her phone, which, to her surprise, didn’t crack at all. In fact, Yildirim told News 6 she only found one scratch on the phone.”
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“…she found it in near-perfect condition when the ride ended.”
The person it landed on?
Less than near-perfect condition.
Nice that it landed face up to record where it fell from! Super cool.
That’s the Cat-Chip in action.
Regarding surviving in a household with toddlers, I imagine the results aren’t as positive. 😉
Talk about sticking the landing!
It must have landed flatly to distribute the impact to not have broken.
and a nice visual calm from the descent of staccato noise.
Reminds me of the time I fell off a 500’ tower.
Luckily I was only ten feet up….
Apple STILL has work to do on imagine stabilization.
one of the best comments in a long time!
I once dropped some organic cotton candy 450′ on a woman carrying an iPhone. It hit the iPhone, enabling her to score a PR on the Candy Crush game which she was playing. Sweet!
Apple certainly knows how to make a descent phone.
It’s not the fall, but the sudden deceleration. I’m assuming it fell on grass, shrubs, or soft dirt. Still . . . impressive.
Unaugmented Person,
I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. I opted for the latter even though your humour is pure corn. Groan!
I wonder how the Health app interpreted the data stream from the accelerometer.