Why Dropping a Phone From 300 vs. 16,000 Feet Is Basically the Same Thing | WSJ 

Read more about why an iPhone can survive a drop from a plane, but not from your kitchen counter: on.wsj.com/3xQu62t

Getting a budget for this video must’ve been interesting lol.

Try Nokia from space, the impact would cause an extinction level event.

In Santa Fe, New Mexico, I somehow dropped my Samsung Galaxy with protective case on a busy street in front of a Hilton hotel. After some innovative detective work by a desk clerk at the hotel, the phone was returned to me in working order. It had been run over by at least one passing car. The screen glass was cracked and the case was roughed up a bit, but the phone still worked fine for a couple of years before I retired it for a newer model. So yes, definitely install a protective case, they work!

Don't tell WSJ about tiles. A 4ft drop onto them and your screen is toast.

Would have been nice to see the accelerometer data from the phones

Would like to see some phone diagnostics run to see if anything internal might be broken.

Me watching on my screen that got cracked falling from the sink to the floor 🤔

You needed one more calculation for terminal velocity: at what height is it reached for a smartphone? (I realize Marc said 300 ft. but I assume he was guessing and this wasn't based on a calculation. If you're curious, solve the following non-linear differential equation: dv/dt = 1/lambda(v^2) - g), where lambda is the size of the smartphone and v is the drag. Integrate this to get the height that terminal velocity will be reached.)

Joanna: Enjoyed the video. Guess we all should know a good case always helps protect our phones. BTW, what type of drone was used in the video? Looks like some time of DJI? (I'm a drone guy...)

Any kind of drop test like this is totally not scientific. The same phone dropped from the same height can have different outcome depending on the wind strengths and direction. The iphone dropped from 300 ft on asphalt had its back glass cracked, it would have been the screen if it hit the ground from the other side. Same for the samsung. To get the "real" result, you would need to drop the phones in a closed area to remove the wind impact, dropping each phone at least once in each direction (top up, top down, left down, right down, screen down, back down) and see what the results are. then it is not only a matter of randomness on how the phone lands, but how the shape of the phone really affects how it lands, and how solid the materials really are.

Joanna you’re the best, love the video 😂

When you see mark rober being summoned, you know they mean business 🤣

Fun. Unscientific of course.

Thanks Joanna, I'll be sure to do that.

I had dropped a Samsung S21 off a building while I was working on the roof. It was around 40ft and it landed on concrete. I had a Pelican case on it. It was completely fine except a small dent/crack in the back. Unfortunately it did damage the port where the sim card sat, so the sim card would periodically stop working. But because the screen was fine, I was able to get a full trade in value for it, so that was nice. This is why I always get good cases lol

if the manufacturers make the phone heavier at the bottom half will it probably land on that half ? will it be enough to control the fall from 3 feet ?

Theyre only doing it on grass and asphalt but not on sharp rocks or in other environments

thanks for making a video on mobiles falling out of the sky interesting

How can I subcribe more than once to this channel? WSJ is just crazy, coming up with some nice experiments I would have never imagine. Please ship the iphone to me. I will fix it and brag of owning iphone to your credit. Please.

Love your dry wit!

Mark Rober appeared!! that dude is the 🐐

iPhone & Samsung: Omg I am gonna fall from so much height Nokia: First time? Nokia 300FT Drop Test Video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-hc4Puw-BYXw.html

i miss joana stern videos!! glad she decided to create new videos

Dropped my pixel 7 pro from my pocket on to the garage concrete floor and toasted my screen, twice now in 6 months, some phones are just not built that well.

Well, we have come a long way from stationary phones and mobile cellular phones that were big as a brick with an antenna to a device thin and light that you can carry anytime, anywhere in your pocket with a reasonable level of durability; even more so with a case on it. I am still using an iPhone X with a Apple leather case on it and I have lost count the amount of times it’s dropped or flew off the bed onto the floor. Using a case and being a little conscious of the device goes a long way to reducing the chances of getting broken from accidental drops and saves you having to pay for Apple Care Plus.

Joanna Stern makes great videos :)

OtterBox is awesome

To not waste 6 minutes of your life: terminal velocity

Incredible survival skills, iPhone! 👏

You dropped it on grass

Nice iPhone ad.😂😂😂

Could have been a 10 second video with just the part at the end there.

Jersey grass is not the right pedigree! (aside: Jamaican grass is far superior) I highly recommend phone drops into tree brushes, young freshly watered supple junipers, intertwined fern trees below a certain age.

Ms. Stern missed the perfect opportunity to say that this video was sponsored by otterbox.

This still doesn't answer why that phone was so lucky to not break when your test with cases show cracks everywhere.

0:35 there is only one thing to do... drop $1500 a piece phones so we can make a youtube video about it :P

Seriously dropping them on grass🤣💀 You're not serious

Which drone is this?

a lot has to do with the surface the iPhone lands on

Peak journalism amirite ?

Thanks for keeping us updated! I feel sympathy and empathy for our country. low income people are suffering to survive, and I appreciate Deborah. You've helped my family with your advice. imagine investing $30,000 and receiving $95,460 after 28 days of trading.

This was awesome!

Don't destroy these expensive phones . Instead give those to me

It’s nice to know that if I ever fall out of an airplane, my phone will likely survive.

Isn't this obvious? Terminal velocity.

Only in a perfect scenario.

Preparing news like a tiktoker

"Dracarys" instead of release!!

Cool

DJI FTW

Oh I think she Really Wanted to Try the Dropping a Grenade from a drone.😂😂😂 But that's too controversial so "Dropping a iPhone will do" for making a new video

Its simple, it's called "Maximum velocity", where given the mass of an object, given a long enough time to free-fall, the object eventually reaches max-velocity where, its no longer accelerating or decelerating, the air resistance counters the gravity effect.

Where is the comparison table? No scientific record?

Why not s24 ultra

Lowkey Apple advertising

I sense a lot of biased favor for the iPhone over the Samsung.

yeah make the video when a phone hits the concrete. it hit the soil, not the concrete.

The marketing of thing is always so smart than AI😂😂😂, always to be number one😂😂😂😂😷

Convertible airplanes let’s go

The question is why you u need to drop a phone from that kind height 😅

WSJ sponsors these types of videos now? 😅

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Mark Rober!

Only flaw in this test is the lawn does not matched density no moisture given the dry spots. You should test it on a golf course or somewhere where uniform irrigation and green lawn is.

A collab or a cameo of Mark Rober

Spigen cases 🙌🏼

if you dropped a nokia it wouldve made a hole in the ground and landed in china

If that 2T is stocks, if stock price is what ppl buys em for, so gamblers increased the price like bitcoint to 2t, is that the value of it? How much does it make? How much plants etc costs

why did i watch this

I am not getting case!!!!!! end of discussion

try a Huawei P60 Pro and you will know the real differences it made .....🤫

Get a mous case

Now go watch the movie called Terminal Velocity. I Just wasted 5 min of my life i will never ever get back. I knew the answer but its 6 am and i am bored.

The Apple's iPhone 15 technologies make the Huawei Puna 70 look like a *museum version.* They are at least 5 years apart, even without Google AI on the former. Apple uses the truth 3nm chip while the Kirin 9010 uses an *enhanced* 7nm. LOL

She was unhappy when she was kid😅😅😅😅😅

Tecno people look away

Mark Rober !!!!!!!!!!!!

Can I have the iPhone 15

Someone has been watching too many videos from Ukraine

Why don't God design human this way?

Samsung supremacy

how to get a phone post falling from airplane?

4:32 Androids suck

Best cases for phones: OtterBox Best cases for MacBooks: UAG

hey first viewer from Nepal

Tech Rax

iPhones really at the end of their wits. How pathetic and lamentable of them!

Weird, even when I was in the Heart of Darkness in Mexico, I never had these problems. Ask your pimp not to beat you with your phone.

why? wsj advertising for apple, samsung, and that company which makes drone

📱Keep in mind the iphone 14 PRO is much more prone to damage because of the OLED vs LCD

Samsung uses cheap raw material while apple uses genuine parts.

Don’t ever, ever make another video like this… unless it’s a useless politician.

Are you views hungry?. Why destroy good phones.

Don't buy America product because you can now buy alternative technology Huawei technologies because Huawei technologies is entirely different system from America so if you don't want die your country than avoid usa technology because China can offer alternative technology that is entirely different system from America

If you declined by a job market for eight years and asked to use youtube to find all the local pieces of information technology and have no goverment support to reach subscribers number are you a falling Remigijus Žemaitaitis or Eduardas Vaitkus smartphone?

Yah.. NO! ❌ I broke two iPhones from a short drop on hard surfaces 😒

premium quality from apple. Samsung is still sleeping on their quality and durability.

Terminal velocity is a thing. Making sensational articles about basic physics is pathetic.

Evolution vs food. Food disproves evolution. Every organism no matter how small either manufacturers or collects food or it would die very quickly. Every organism identifies, ingests, digests, filters, stores, and excretes food. It has to identify the difference between food or rock. It must ingests food through a specialized opening designed to intake only food and nothing else. The food itself is useless until it is digested, a complex multi-stage process all by itself. If it cannot store the energy from the digested food at least temporarily it would die. Then it must filter the waste products or die from internal toxicity. And then excrete the waste products through an orifice specifically designed to excrete the waste and only the waste, the precious blood or cytoplasm must remain inside the body. An Evolutionist wants you to believe that a life-form came together in the beginning with all of these features in place with no help and no time for natural selection... this would be the equivalent of a car capable of making another car inside of itself... because if it cannot reproduce it would be forever alone and die from old age. God created life.