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The Gearburn Podcast #15: Are smartphones too fragile?
Hadlee Simons and Andy Walker sit down to talk about how fragile smartphones have become.
The duo was spurred on by their use of the Samsung S8, and the care it requires to keep it undamaged.
Naturally, the conversation compared this to past phones that “you could drop and they would bounce off the floor and you could catch them again”.
The team ask whether protection like phone covers are essential, if curved screens are worth the danger they bring, and more.
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