5 occasions a telephone case saved handsets

I am courting myself, however after I was rising up, cell phones had been bricks. The screens had been just a few inches massive, if that, and so they had been constructed like tanks. Whereas I’ll gladly take my superior smartphone over that, the present smartphone design is worlds extra fragile than the cell telephones of my childhood. The massive panel of glass could be very prone to breaking, as nearly everybody has certainly skilled firsthand.

Due to their fragile nature, a high quality case is important if you would like your telephone to final (with out the dreaded spiderweb impact, requiring repairs). Sadly, I’m fairly accident-prone, and that extends to my telephone. I can not inform you what number of occasions I’ve dropped it, and with no case, that factor would have been a goner. However high quality instances like these from Supcase do extra than simply present drop safety. Fellow Pocket-lint workers have been in some distinctive conditions the place a case got here in useful, so I’ve gathered among the extra memorable tales to function a reminder that it is best to undoubtedly choose up a telephone case if you do not have one already.

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When it was a neon check in a snowbank

Instances supply extra than simply drop safety

Relying on the case, it may be much more than only a layer of safety in case you drop your telephone. Pocket-lint’s Kenzie Davison had a extremely reflective case, which turned out to be essential for locating her telephone. She had misplaced her telephone in a snowbank when she was in faculty, and the one motive she was capable of finding it was due to the reflective case. The daylight caught it good, and she or he was in a position to find it earlier than a plow got here by and buried it much more.

My case is my backup pockets for occasions

Instances that permit equipment are very helpful

I not too long ago went to an area minor league baseball sport, and did not lookup forward of time if luggage can be allowed. Sadly, clear luggage had been required, which I didn’t have. Fortunately, I’ve a magnetic pockets for my telephone case, so I used to be simply in a position to depart my purse behind and nonetheless usher in my ID and bank card with out having them unfastened in my pocket. That meant there was no danger of dropping them as a result of they fell out.

Sliding on the subway with no scratch

A case will not absolutely defend in opposition to embarrassment, however it could actually assist

Pocket-lint’s Christina Darby credit her case for saving her telephone on the subway not too long ago.

“Being Gen Z, I am at all times on my telephone. I am continuously strolling whereas texting, filming, and so on,” she says.

“In the future, I believed I would attempt my hand at making a ‘day in my life’ TikTok and was filming myself on the subway. Somebody knocked my hand, and my telephone slid throughout the subway automobile. My whole case cracked, however my telephone is completely fantastic. If it weren’t for the case’s cushioning close to the rear digicam lens, it might be shattered, and I would not solely be embarrassed, however embarrassed with a damaged telephone.”

Surviving drops from a Uhaul

Strikes are not any match for a high quality case

In fact, probably the most broadly accepted advantages of a telephone case is for drop safety. Pocket-lint’s Kenzie Davison was transferring with a Uhaul truck not too long ago and dropped her iPhone out the window of the truck. Fortunately, she has an Otterbox case with a display screen protector, which utterly saved her telephone, although it fell from fairly a top.

A tenting (mis)journey made the case for waterproof instances

Forestall a waterlogged telephone

One Pocket-lint staffer shared a narrative of a time they went tenting with associates. One good friend forgot a tarp for beneath their tent. When it rained that night time, they awakened in a small lake. However, as a result of their telephone was in a rugged case, their telephone was completely fantastic. No bag of rice or silica gel wanted, and so they might hold their telephone working for the remainder of the tenting journey.

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