Well, it kind of depends. Any iPhone will turn to dust if you put it in a blender. And Samsung phones will, too. However, if you put it in the right case, your phone can survive a drop from 3,000 feet in the air.

But those are extreme examples; what about day-to-day use? Manufacturers do try to make phones as durable as possible without a case.

Many smartphones and tablets go through vicious testing before they make it to the market. Samsung puts its phones and tablets through 7,000 tests before it is mass produced.

33 different phone and tablet brands – including Apple and Samsung – have more than 1,000 different products that use Gorilla Glass, which doesn’t make a screen unbreakable, but it does make it tougher to crack. Click here to learn more about how Gorilla Glass works.


I’ve seen plenty of phones survive falls without a case. I’ve also seen plenty of phones break with a case on. It just takes the right fall at the right angle and your phone will look like Spiderman got hold of it.

But is there a certain type of case or type of phone that stands above the rest? Let’s find out.

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