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Reporter breaks an 'unbreakable' mobile phone at CES

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49 pointsbensummers16 comments

CEO took it well at least. There will be hell to pay off-camera later, no doubt. =)

Are they naive and didn't have people try to break it in that situation first?

Or are the genius and put the guy right in front of a sharp corner?

The CEO seemed to be genuinely laughing. If I were HR at their company, I'd put this on the recruiting site. Shows what they do and a pleasant environment very quickly.

The CEO took it in stride, amazing.

The reporter on the other hand did not seem to realise how good a job he had just done.

Great reaction by the company rep! Obviously, 'unbreakable' has its limits (i.e. if you run over it with a tank). I can image the 'hammer a nail with it' part though, unless you use the display for that.

Actually, speaking of running something over with a tank, this hard drive did pretty well:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8449893.stm

To give the phone a little credit, it did take the reporter a few smacks before he got it right. Even though the phone obviously isn't "unbreakable", I doubt anyone could take their iPhone, dunk it in water and then smack it even once like that.

i doubt that any "unbreakable" phone will resist being banged to a sharp edge for the near future...

I think it was actually the corner of the tank, concentrating all the force of the blow into a couple of square millimetres.

All "good" publicity for the phone and the company.

The company rep seemed to quite cool about it ,what i didn't understand though was why was the reporter apologising ? The company rep did say - the phone is unbreakable do what you can and the reporter just proved him wrong, so why apologise, he should have said - "well mate you are wrong , this phone is in fact breakable".

K. Obviously a lie when he said you could hammer it with a nail. Force/Area = Pressure. If the pressure from hitting the corner of a fish tank with normal arm strength can break it, then I am sure a hammer would drive a nail right through the phone.

I believe he said "you could hammer a nail with it" (00:20). So you're not hammering a nail into the phone, you're using the phone as a hammer to drive the nail into another surface.

It would probably still break if you used the screen as the hammer, but I guess he meant hammering a nail using the side of the phone (which is what you'd normally do anyways).

It's the top "watched/listened" story on BBC News right now. Hurrah for free publicity.

In the CEO's defense: he just broke the screen, not the whole phone. I guess.

I wonder if he got the free phone promised at the beginning of the clip?

I so hate being forced to watch advertising.

I don't mind so much when I can learn something (about advertising).

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