Geek Posted July 18, 2011 Posted July 18, 2011 <div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/iphone-4-skydiving-accident.jpg" alt="iPhone 4 survives skydiving drop" title="iphone-4-skydiving-accident" width="620" height="349" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-18874" /></p> <p>In what is probably the best unintentional marketing campaign for the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003SX0P1A/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=oxd-20&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399373&creativeASIN=B003SX0P1A">Incipio iPhone 4 case</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=&l=as2&o=1&a=B003SX0P1A&camp=217145&creative=399373" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" />, an iPhone 4 has survived a fall from 13,500′ after slipping from the pocket of a skydiver. </p> <p>Amazingly enough the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/iphone/">iPhone</a>, pictured above, survived the drop, despite landing on the roof of a building from the height of a plane. Despite suffering a broken enclosure and touchscreen, the phone continues to make and receives phone calls, and was able to be located by using the Find My iPhone feature. The aforementioned Incipio case didn’t make it out alive, but it sounds like it absorbed enough of the impact to let the phone continue to function. </p> <p>This Pulitzer-quality important news event was reported by <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/mobile/07/18/iphone.skydive/index.html">CNN</a>. </p> </div> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/HfW8tK5FpJy2TLJP4u5h8ARQWvQ/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/HfW8tK5FpJy2TLJP4u5h8ARQWvQ/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/HfW8tK5FpJy2TLJP4u5h8ARQWvQ/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/HfW8tK5FpJy2TLJP4u5h8ARQWvQ/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=sPpqmaq8Wj8:_3MI1FLru-g:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=sPpqmaq8Wj8:_3MI1FLru-g:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=sPpqmaq8Wj8:_3MI1FLru-g:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=sPpqmaq8Wj8:_3MI1FLru-g:D7DqB2pKExk"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=sPpqmaq8Wj8:_3MI1FLru-g:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=sPpqmaq8Wj8:_3MI1FLru-g:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=sPpqmaq8Wj8:_3MI1FLru-g:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/osxdaily/~4/sPpqmaq8Wj8" height="1" width="1"/> View the full article
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