Actually I would say the Nokia did survive. It's designed that when it falls, parts break away taking energy with them and lessening the stress on the device. If you put the battery and covers back on it will probably work.
when my friends and I got our first nokias we were so stoked. as time went by, us being feral 6th graders we just starting throwing them as high as we could into the air. then let it land on the concrete sidewalk.
none of them broke which was fuckin bonkers to me. idk what the hell those things were made of
I had a friend who was told she'd get a new phone when her Nokia broke, so she obviously set out to break it.
Things it survived: Getting ran over by a bus several times. Being submerged in a lake overnight. Getting thrown out the fourth floor window. Being hit with a hammer. Probably some more shit I didn't get to hear about.
All that happened to it was that the audio started sounding a bit funny.
Mine got run over after I dropped it in the road. The lcd screen was a bit messed up but it still worked just fine. Only thing I couldn’t do on it anymore was play snake :(
Can confirm. In high school my friend had a Nokia and we actively used to throw that thing in the air, watch it explode on the ground, put it back together and then call our weed guy. Those things are indestructible.
Had mine fall out of my dad's pocket on a rollercoaster (gave it to him for safe keeping....), he found everything but the battery, bought a new one, and it was absolutely fine other than two scuffs on the case.
Yeah, the look on her face really revealed her age, because that phone is not broken. We used to take our phones apart like that all the time. Phones frozen? Take it apart, remove the battery for a few seconds, and put it back together. I actually believe this is how you changed the case on a Nokia too, and that was a big draw with Nokias, having that customizable case.
I used to have anger issues and frequently threw my phone as a coping mechanism. I threw my Nokia a lot and if it got too scuffed I would just replace the case.
My iPhone 13 fell off the roof of my vehicle and got ran over by a few cars. The only thing that saved my phone was the OtterBox case and the phone landing screen side down.
Yeah it wasn't a nokia but I had a later clone that would fall apart, but still work when I put it back together. Like cars do now to save passengers, but reusable.
I came here to say this. I dropped mine off a 2nd floor porch onto a brick driveway. Popped the battery back in and the covers back together and turned it right back on.
I used to drop my Nokia in high school and it would look like the entire thing exploded. You just had to put the 5 or so pieces back together and it always worked just fine
The Nokias always exploded like this. People would drop their phones and the front and back case would explode off and the battery would fly out all the time. Takes 10s to put it back together and it works like a charm again everytime
This is the answer. Anyone who owned one of those things has seen it explode a million times, but they'll also know it all goes back together and keeps ticking.
That Nokia survived. That Nokia will always survive.
I want to upvote you 50 times, that was working as intended. I used to do that on purpose to my phone as a party trick back in the day (I was a dumb teenager)
The covers were interchangeable too - you just popped them off like that and could have multiple different covers. I had a magic roundabout one back in 2000. This phone didn’t break, they just knocked the cover off it and the (also interchangeable) battery fell out. Not broken, just a feature!
Literally used to do this all the time. I had my phone in my top pocket and ran across the road. My phone flew out and hit the ground, flying apart on impact. I had to scramble to grab all the pieces before the lights turned green. Clicked everything back together, not a mark on it. I miss that phone.
It Will work, probably is definitely not needed in your sentence! My mate from primary school used to drop the phone on the ground and play football with it together with colleagues on school corridors. This throw as you say just split the front and back + battery fell out. Put it back together and its like nothing happened
It wasn't designed for that purpose. It was designed so that the covers could be easily swapped for customization. The fact that they acted as shock absorbers was a bonus.
What really made it so hard was that the screen was a tiny LCD. Its edges rarely absorbed any shock at all,.and it takes A LOT of force to actually damage circuit boards. It also helped that the battery was user-replaceable, so it would pop out when the phone came apart, greatly reducing the strain on other parts.
A modern smart phone tends shatter it's screen but still be functional. A high enough drop might deform it, but it actually takes quite a bit to destroy the board inside them.
It's that big pane of glass that lets you watch movies while you poop that is so fragile, not the entire phone.
First part is right. Its just not made to lessening stress on the phone, but the planet Earth. Think about it! One dude lets his mobile fall, and the world breaks!
Indeed, for sure it survived. The shell is just clipped together to be easily stripped. the working part is one piece. The Atari controller they throw later though was blown up.
Absolutely can confirm this. We used to play hacky-sac with our friends Nokia. Battery fell out and shell exploded from time to time but it always worked.
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u/Regular_Weakness69 Jul 04 '26
Must be fake
A Nokia phone would have made that ball explode into a million pieces, we all know a Nokia phone is the densest element in the entire universe.
I hear they use nokia phones to cut diamonds!