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by cwillu 77 days ago
> it also came with a glass back that enabled the phone to fall off a perfectly level service

I used to put mine on my wallet, and it took ages to figure out why I kept dropping it: the moment you set it down, it would start sliding _incredibly_ slowly.

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The almost imperceptible sliding took me w while to find out too. My phone was always on the floor any time I wasn't watching it. And if it vibrated, it was all of a sudden in a hurry to plung off tables. Active obsolescence I am telling ya!

Every morning I had to wakeup fast enough before the vibrating alarm would have it jump off my bedside table.

Of course the back cracked quickly with the constant falling. It eventually met its demise during a bike accident. I landed on a tiny rock that pushed through my pocket, exploded the glass, and ultimately broke the charging circuitry. You could see the hole through the front glass! And it was still playing music. At least until the battery died.