As a rather clumsy individual, I accidentally dropped my FP 2 several times. By far the worst was when I was biking, the phone fell out of my jacket, hit the concrete, and a car drove over it with its wheels. I fully expected the phone to be broken into pieces but…only the rear case and battery pop…

I think it’s difficult to say. It makes some intuitive sense that a phone that can more easily come apart nondestructively can better survive the type of treatment you describe - but then, maybe a glued-together, solid, unfair phone would hold up better by not coming apart at all. I owned a Sony Xpe…

I think it depends on if the FP3 (or FP3+) is protected by a bumper or protective case. Without any of these, I think it will not take shocks as well as the FP2 with its integrated slim case that seems to absorb a bit of the impact of a drop (or at least the slim case was designed to do that ).

Its kind of a fair point, I suppose, but there are rugged smartphones and cases specifically for such purpose. AFAIK not self serviceable.

Thanks, the linked post describes quite well what I experienced: by the design, the case splits open and the parts separate at impact, dissipating a lot of the energy in the fall. Think of legacy stick phones that we had in times past, they would explode in a large number of parts at impact, and t…

My story here :laughing: A car ran over my FP2 - #3 by Martina_Zitnik

Indeed, this story did resemble my experience with the classic Nokia 3310. Dropped it very often. Breaks into 3 pieces (4 sometimes), put it back together and it’s alive again. Still use it for outdoor adventures sometimes.

Excellent stories :slight_smile:! Thanks @urs_lesse et al. Enjoying them a lot.

Well, I managed to crack my FP2 with a firm grab after some annoying phonecall I had. I cracked the display and thought it would all be done by replacing that one. Unfortunately the force went through to the base casing and or module, and bent it away from the 3x10 Pin connector. It still operates w…

(Unintended?) benefit of FP2's modular built

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urs_lesse February 17, 2021, 3:04pm 8

Great stories! Let me just bring this mother of all Fairphone durability stories to the attention of all the newbies and younglings in our community: