WIN a Galaxy S6 with OtterBox!
By Ben –
Smartphones are great.
It is quite possible, that you are reading this on one right now. One might struggle to refute the idea that perhaps smartphones have become one of the most integral parts of everyday life in 2015. And life in 2015 can be hard… It can be especially hard on our phones.
As a constant companion, our smartphones often bear the battle scars of our life's many adventures. It might have been that careless drop onto concrete as you hyper extended your arm in an attempt to snag your daily selfie. Or maybe it was that one time after hockey practice, when you thought nothing of putting your phone on the roof of the car, as you changed your socks. The ‘clunk’ and moment of sobering remembrance some minutes later as you are buckled into the driver seat and on your way home – whatever caused the phone deforming scratch – we want you to share your war stories with us!
Up for grabs this time we have a wonderful new OtterBox Galaxy S6 Case of your choice…
AND A BRAND NEW SAMSUNG GALAXY S6 TO GO IN IT!
This mighty competition is perfect for those of us with phones that have a little battle damage – and not only could you win one of the most powerful smartphones available in the world today, but you'll also have one of the most rugged phone cases to keep it looking new and shiny!
Do you want to WIN this awesome prize! – Time for a bit of Show and Tell!
We want you to Tell us and WIN for this one – simply share in the comments below the story of that time you wish you'd had an Otterbox Case on your phone!
Andy writes…
It was a dark and stormy night, well past dinner. I had run out of battery long ago so my phone was plugged in via my controllers charge cable which I had running across the coffee table and into my phone.
I pressed on battling foe after foe with my priest deck as I attempted to clear my quests in Hearthstone and after a string of what can only be described as ‘unfortunate games’ I finally had one more match to win and it was going great, I had two of the three cards I needed for my killer combo and just like in an episode of Yu Gi Oh – I got just the card I needed!
I was so excited I quickly stood up and attempted to show my flatmate forgetting that I was connected to my console still… I was holding the phone with just my fingertips and it sprung out my hand like it was attached to a rubber band, flew with great speed into the coffee table, slid off and landed face down on the floor. I hesitantly picked it up and inspection for damage was sadly very short – I had cracked the bottom corner right on the headphone jack :(
The good news even though I can't use wired headphones any more the phone still works and I can still play Hearthstone. I would like a Cool Melon Defender Case please!
It's that easy!
You can even increase your chances of winning by sharing a picture on instagram with the hashtag #INEEDOTTERBOX and tag @Mighty.Ape so we are sure to see it – Double points for a picture and a story – you can link to your instagram post in your comments below!
We'll be announcing the lucky winner on May 31st so swing by our Mighty OtterBox Store to choose your case and get writing today!
GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!
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I had decided to take my furry companions for a trip to the pet shop, wherein they would be sated with delicious treats and swarms of attention (one of said furry companions is a SPCA rescue that came to us through said store, and is something of a celebrity when he returns as he was older when we adopted him).
I load said furry companions into our automobile - first our labrodore Jax. I then needed to swap hands in order for Opie to have a clear path into the vehicle...I placed my precious phone on the roof of the car, swap hands and, in doing so, get pulled into the car by the force of an excited pup.
Rubbing my shoulder I reach to grab my phone....wherein I noticed it was no longer occupying the space it once had, and instead was in mid fall towards the concrete driveway. Sadly my reactions were inadequate, and my precious phone was on its first bounce. I also failed to close the car door, leading to both my furry companions decided it would be a wonderful time to leap from the vehicle and provide some much needed watering to the trees lining the driveway.
Sadly my previous phone was now shattered from ear to ear - not unlike the chelsea grin sported by one clown prince of crime. I was forced to round up my furry companions and proceed to the store, my screen never to be whole again.....
@ Tim - Don't forget to let us know which OtterBox case you would like get if you win!
It's was a dark stormy day where my children were throwing a huge Tanty go to strap one of them into the car and got my bloomin s3 flinged out the door! Smashed completly I had never been so upset in my life lol also I remember the one time I ask my husband to do the dishes he drops his s3 in the sink off the shelf whilst running the water #menaresogenuis we both deserve new phones but I think since it's closest to mothers day it should be me
"You can even increase your chances of winning but sharing a picture on the with by using instagram to share a picture of your battle damage with the hashtag #INEEDOTTERBOX and tag @Mighty.Ape so we are sure to see it – Double points for a picture and a story – you can link to your instagram post in your comments below!"
This makes little sense do I win something now?
My story is simple: I had in my hands a lit cuban cigar and a Galaxy S5.
I fumbled and dropped both items.
Weirdly, my subconscious and fast-reacting mind decided that the cigar was of utmost importance and I grabbed for it.
The result was a burnt hand and a S5 that no longer has a functioning power button or headphone jack.
It's not the worst thing in the world, but man it's irritating.
Were I to pick an OtterBox case, it'd be the Symmetry Glacier one...I love the look of clean white Samsung phones.
yup somehow without realizing on my way out and then managed to reverse over it, wasn't till i wanted to go use it that i realized it was gone so i back tracked all the way home hoping to find it and then my neighbor brought me the million pieces was a devastating day. ... oh and i shouldn't forget about the time i was painting my fridge with chalkboard paint and ended up dropping my phone it in - my boy thought it was hilarious.. Definitely think #INEEDOTTEROX in my life
I broek ma fone :'''''''''(
Just a few days ago I had a power outage. All my electrical devices were down. My phone Galaxy S4 was charging at the time, only 10% charge :(. My favorite TV shows didn't record. Worst of all my essay that I spent over 2 hours writing was gone. Lesson learned for next time don't forget to save.
For the otterbox case I would pick the cool melon
My Samsung galaxy s3 had been my best friend for a while, we did everything together.. But one day that all changed. You see I was in my room playing some Halo when my Mum was screaming at me, telling me to pick up our dog Kenny's poo. Very un pleased as dad normally did this, I went downstairs and grabbed the plastic bag and shovel and went to work. It was a real mission as Kenny loved to poo everywhere... And I mean everywhere.... It was all going so well, well as good as picking up dog poo goes, when my phone started to vibrate. I took the phone out of my pocket and saw my good friend Emily calling me. I went to swipe to answer but for some reason the phone wasn't responding.. Probably because I had a glove on.. Furiously trying to swipe the answer button mum yells out "hurry up!" and startled i drop my phone in dog poo and then stand on it.... How I did this I have no idea. I was furious and full of tears :'( I went inside to clean it up and then as I wiped the poo off not only had there been a crack in the screen from top to bottom, front camera destroyed but there was now poo in the cracks aswell. I havent had a new phone since then... can't trust myself without dropping it in more poo.. I think a otterbox case would have been perfect for that day.... ://
Cool Melon would be lovely :) thank you for reading my tragic cracked phone moment :)))
This is the story of the Galaxy S3 that has been through the wars...
It started about 2 months after I got my brand new fresh on the market Samsung Galaxy S3.. While doing my groceries I had my precious in my hand using the calculator to make sure I wouldn't over spend.. A charming little kid pretending to be flying an airplane lost his bearings and flew straight into my leg causing me to drop my precious new phone and have it break into pieces... I managed to put all the pieces back together but alas it was gone with a massive crack right down the LCD screen...
Total Damage: $300.. Total fix time: 3days... Warranty: airplane damage not covered :(
Years later... Suddenly out of the blue the power of the Samsung Galaxy S3 died.. everything started to run slow or shut down with no warning... No longer can it send or receive texts on a regular basis without praying like crazy beforehand.. It does not like being charged and used at the same time anymore...
To make matters worse, while celebrating my good friends birthday.. he (the birthday boy) decided it would be fun to steal and start taking photos of everyone but not before throwing it on the deck and have it bounce all the way down the stairs onto the hard concrete...
Happily it is still hanging in there for emergencies at the moment, but I sure miss being able to play my clash of clans and kicking some giant butt :( or even just casually having the odd conversation with my friends and family via text and sometimes calls.
If I was lucky enough to finally win a competition for the first time in my life this is the one to win... and I would LOVE LOVE LOVE the OtterBox Defender Case for Samsung Galaxy S6 - Purple Amethyst!!
My boyfriend had given me his old phone, because I'm a student, and I can't really afford a new phone. My grandpa in Japan had passed away recently, and so my mother took me to Japan to attend his funeral. I had never lost anybody in my life before, and did not own funeral appropriate clothing, so another family member leant me her blazer and a black dress. I placed my cellphone into my blazer pocket. In Japan, it's traditional to bow in front of the tombstone and light an incense stick for the dead. As I didn't really know the blazer I was wearing, and didn't realise the pockets were really shallow, as I bent forward in front of my grandfather's gravestone, my phone flew out and smashed itself against the stone. I'd love a new phone- my mother is currently lending me her phone, while she uses her old phone, until I can save up to buy a new one. Maybe if I get lucky in this competition though, I can give her back her phone? (If I do happen to win, I'd like the gridlock case!)
Im a foster mum and as we all know kids love to play with phones. I was doing some laundry one day and my little 3yr old foster boy had my phone, i asked him to go put it on the table in lounge. He wandered off and i thought he was doing what i had asked. I went upstairs to get more of the kids laundry and came back to put in the washing machine. Added the powder and turned it on and returned with the boy to make some lunch. I heard the beeping of the washing machine and said to my wee fella, come on we will get the washing and go hang it out, as i was pulling washing out of the machine, i heard a clunk in the bottom, my wee boy had gone back to the laundry after i went upstairs and had put the phone in the machine, i didnt even notice it was in there and i just added more clothes!! So it had a wash and of course now doesnt work. He thought he was helping bless him, but of course i need a phone for emergencies so please consider me for a lovely new phone and case so i can continue to do my good work with kids.
Left my phone of roof of the car and as I took off at haste out the driveway I noticed and heard in the rearview mirror something sliding off the back of the car. Stopped in the middle of the road in panic realising what I had done. Backed back into the driveway to get out of the oncoming traffic. Hopped out and could not find a thing, then that sinking feeling started to kick in, surely not, what were that chances!? Yep I had then parked on top of the phone when backing back into the driveway!
This happened back in January
I just got out of the shower, I went to grab my phone and it slipped off the vanity and onto the wooden floor, face down
I didnt think much of it until i picked it up and there was lines across my screen and then the LCD failed and permanently died right there in my arms
I have been using a galaxy 7inch tablet as a phone since then, needless to say an actual phone would be ideal
And i would choose a defender case as they look like a phone would survive a drop like the one my poor samsung S4 didn't
My husband had a real flash phone (Sony Vivaz) and then put it through the wash. A full wash cycle. Other casualties included 2 t-shirts subsequently ripped to shreds. I'm fairly certain a case wouldn't have helped but the purple amethyst is pretty
Once upon a merry bleary sunny day one lovely grandaughter (( points to self**)) took her fantastical grandmother and bubbly bouncing mr 3 year old to ye little playground of ye mystical land of Masterton.
Playing ye age old tradition of the lava game (( single player mode activated )) made the life changing decision to sacrifice the face of one galaxy s3 for the sake of a tripping grandma.. turns out parts for grandma a little more expensive.
one new lcd screen later I wished I had heeded advice from a wise wizard urging me to use the ottercase
These otter boxes are great - I got one after I broke my old Samsung for the third time (screen turned completely black).
I'm normally so careful, but I had put my phone in my jerseys zip pocket (chest) and had hooked up my dog (Husky) to go for a scooter ride from home.
Had turned on Runkeeper to get ready to record the whole thing, then I bent over to tighten the dogs leads and the phone slipped out of a half open pocket and face first onto the concrete. Tragedy.
The harder part was surviving 4 days without the phone while it was repeaired. When I got it back I got the otterbox for it. Have bounced it a few times since with one fo these with no damage.
The Glacier Defender would be great when I get to a new S6 though.
My story goes:
One late night of working at a terrible job in a terrible town, my beautiful s4 decided to go for a swim. Not in a pool, not in the dirty sink water but in the toilet, YES the toilet. This time I wasn't even playing clash of clans. This time it was sitting safely and not so securely in work jacket pocket. As I went to flush the toilet, my unzipped jacket got in my hands way and flung my phone into the toilet bowl as soon as I flushed, I didn't even get a chance to see it sitting at the bottom of the bowl. I screamed so loudly my family thought I was dying. This didn't happen once, but twice. This was the second time u had flushed my phone down the same toilet. I don't know if an Otterbox - melon pop- would magically save my s6 for drowning in the toilet, but owning an s6, I'll learn to leave my phone in my bedroom, where it is safe. Learn from this people!! If you bring your phone to the toilet with you make sure it is in your hand or in a zipped up pocket!!
Was actually the wife's phone...down the poop shoot...true story....FML...now she's using a Nokia brick....won't let it up. In need of help....lol...the blue defender case would be Kool for her...she don't know I'm entering this
One day, shortly after being discharged from hospital with a broken ankle (which was a result of being crashed into on Christmas day.) A young man and his beloved Girlfriend were traveling home. As they pulled into the driveway the man got out of the car, excited with the prospects of being free from his hospital prison and living a slight more normal life.
holding his phone in one hand he reached into the car with his other, pulling out the crutches. While in the motion of shutting the door he stumbled over over his freshly plastered leg, falling hands first towards the ground.
Time stood still, a single tear rolled down his cheek as he said good bye to his most prized possession.
BANG, the phone screen had broken. Just like the man's heart. Knowing he would have to downgrade to his old Samsung mini, he sat there ignoring life for aslong as possible.
"A man with no phone is no man at all"
So as a sleep deprived parent to a reflux baby (Imagine the delightful melodic sounds for screaming 16 out of 24 hours a day), I dropped my phone in the loo when scraping off a nappy. I was delirious with excitement and relief when said phone was still working I tenderly wrapped it and put in the hot water cupboard to finish the drying out process... that evening mt everest of baby puke exploded over the carpet I grabbed the first semi dry thing my hands touched to dab the carpet whilst lovingly chanting the cuss alphabet. Then threw the linen into the machine for the hot wash, imagine my shock and horror at the end of the cycle to find out my phone even after all the love and tenderness had a kamikaze death wise and hopped in the hot wash. It was pronounced well and truly dead not long afterwards. Otterbox Defender Amethyst would save me from the grief of this happening again and my phone would look far too stylish to take matters into it's own hands again I'm sure.
Not me cos I'm damn careful of my s4. But my son is the most clumsy person I know. Trip on a crack and down the phone goes - continuously and repeatedly!
Had a full on day of shopping and jobs to do with my 4 yr old 2 yr old and newborn . My 2yr old had a massive meltdown so I gave her my phone to play a game to calm her down and she threw it full force to the ground and shattered my iphone 5 screen to pieces . Then I had a meltdown cried out of frustration and called it a day
My story is pretty rough, I dropped my phone on the footpath and the screen had a few minor cracks.... No big deal. My partner then came to me and went " I can fix that easy" and purchased a replacement glass screen off ebay. I thought "why not she said shes done it before and its really easy". The replacement turned up and i passed my prized possession to her.... little did I know that was the end of its sweet life. I was playing on my PC and heard the hair drier start up..... which she had youtubed "how to fix s4's". There advice was to use a hair drier on the phones glass to loosen the glue, I went along with it because lets be honest Youtube is our generations bible. The next thing I see is her jamming a bloody screw driver behind the loosened glass and YANKING the glass off........ She obliterated the digitizer and my phone was dead for ever and ever. I know use a $20 warehouse phone because we are saving for a wedding. The upside..... atleast my glass on the phone was fixed... >;S. I KNOW I'd need the Otterbox Defender Black, so this would NEVER happen again.
I think It was 2 mouths ago I was working in bus yard
just helping around for couple of days. I save up for this phone I really wanted so I brought it. It was samsung galaxy s4 mini really nice phone. Couple days later I went to bus yard to help move some stuff my phone was in this wallet case. When I got to bus yard I had put my phone in my pocket so I wouldn't lose it but when I trip over in front of bus my phone must of falling out I didnt realize my phone wasn't in my pocket tell I hope in the bus an went to go full the bus up for trip go back looking for it then I found it on table so I put it back in my pocket I had to put some new school signs on the new buses I think on last bus my brother was moving it so I quickly put the sign on an my phone must of falling out of my pocket I walk away to take selfhe but I couldn't find my phone the bus started moving to other side of yard I was thinking hard tell I look at the bus moving I run to the bus then I found my phone smash up I was to upset cause I just got that phome 3 days ago....
It was the beginning of the week. It was cold and drizzley outside. I dragged myself out of bed and went for the morning bladder empty. I was checking my facebook on the john (like we all secretly do) and when I was done, I put my brand-new iPhone 5 in my hoodie pocket and reached over to flush. As the water began to swirl around the bowl, my iPhone tumbled out of my pocket and into the contaminated water below!
If only they were water resistant like Samsungs latest models :(
If I won, I would like the Black Commuter Case and would vow to never use my phone on the loo again!
It wasn't very dark, nor was it very stormy. It was actually a fairly fine day and I had decided to go for bit of a hike up the local mountain. At the time I had a Samsung Galaxy Note 2 that I had just imported from overseas and was coming to grips with the fact it was the size of a small table.
Anyway, it was early afternoon and I had just reached the midway stopping point of the mountain, here lies a wooden platform with steel bars to stop things from falling off. I thought that surely due to my phone being the size of a boogie board, there's no way it would fit through the steel bars. Wrong.
It took a dive off the platform leaving a path of destruction and terror in its wake. The Earth shook from the impact of the Samsung Galaxy Note 2's thunderous assault. It jumped and slammed with the power of Thor's hammer. Birds flew into the sky all around.
Of course I was absolutely devastated, that phone cost me an arm and almost a leg when I dropped it. I ran down to the path that it had dropped into and searched in the bushes for a moment. It was about as hard to find as a big white car would be in the same circumstances. But much to my dismay, the screen was cracked in the top left corner and the silver band was scratched.
If only. If only.
If only I had an Otterbox Symmetry Case.
I accidentally left my phone in my jeans and put it through the washing machine. Then a week after I bought a replacement phone, I had to run into a lake fully clothed to grab a kid who jumped into water too deep for them during a family camping trip and had my phone in my pocket. It wouldn't stop playing the Indiana Jones ringtone even after I dried it out. It was a really expensive week. If I was lucky enough to win, I'd reckon a Symmetry Otterbox Case would be able to protect the phone from my clumsiness if it survives my aquatic endeavors.
In 2012 I acquired my first smart phone, well it was more of a gps with cellphone features. I was so excited to finally have a phone, that was not only touch screen, but full of so many other features, so many I had no time to figure all of them out.
This wee beaut came everywhere with me, never left my side. It stayed with me all thought out the remainder of my years at high school and into my first year in tertiary education. It was a reliable little thing, all ways going off making sure I never missed an text or call, lasting day after day, even the times I was careless enough to have it slip through my fingers It still stayed together, not cracked screen, even the back would stay in contact.it brought so much joy with the emulators I had on it, allowing me to relive my childhood playing Pokémon and other GB advance games.
Sadly, earlier this year the charge port broke and disconnected, over the next couple of days as its time drew closer all I could do was stare at its battery life, going from green to orange...then one day, it hit red. My heart sank as it it beeped, informing me it was running low. It was so full of hope and trust in me that I would recharge it...but with the charge port being broken and unable to connect, all I could do was sit there as it slowly can to its end...later that day it died, as I was holding it...it was silent, staring at its blank screen, the only thing shown was the reflection of a man with a broken spirit...I placed it down on my bed side table where it remains to this day, unable to separate from it.
Thank you for you time.
It looked dead, but I crept closer, hoping, praying, begging that it wasn't so. Hope rose as I saw a flicker, a small light of optimism, however it quickly faded as a deathly silence lashed loudly out at me. Why I asked?, yet I knew the answer. How many times had I been warned? Too many and did I listen? It will never happen to me I had foolishly thought, arrogance pushing me forward. Yet it had happened and where to now. It was over, my life was changed forever. One word shouted out at me, 'OtterBox', it teased me, taunted me. Too late I thought as I turned and took one last pleading look at my phone, dead, alone and lost to that cell phone hell that 'those' cells go to. If only, too late my friend, too late.
OtterBox Defender Case for Samsung Galaxy S6 - Black
I wish id had an otterbox when just recently a dangerous fearsome phone enemy....The silver metal sugar container decided to bully my loyal huiwai :-/
It was like any other morning Huawei was sitting quietly minding is his own buisness doing his daily email and message checking when BOOM THUD from nowhere came Bully Sugar Silver plumpting down onto Huawei mericlessly smashing his beautiful face and obvilurating his body!
I stood shocked and mortified at the brutality of this un provoked attack and a sense of saddness swept over me looking down at poor Huawei...he was old but he was faithful and loyal...now Huawei was no more than a mere shell of his former self. ..Huawei being rhe loyal phone he is tries to still do his daily email and message checking but I can see he is on his last legs auffering and I feel cruel making him go on like this...I promised him id give him a dignified farewell and told him when Samsung s6 arrived to always keep him in a BLACK DEFENDER OTTORBOX so if Bully Sugar Silver shall ever return we will be armed and ready for battle.
Soo I was taking my best buddy max (my husky) for a run around the block, and on the loop home it began to rain so we picked up the pace, we crossed the road and I misplaced my foot and tripped over the curb which sent my phone (some crazy how) out of my pocket and into the air.
While all of this seemed to have happened in slow motion there was nothing I could do but fumble my phone before hitting the ground face down. While cringing at the thought of already destroying my week old s5 I picked it up and saw that yes... from top to bottom covered in cracks and bits of the glass fallen off, even the front camera glass cracked.. so no more photo taking for me :(
should have bought the Otterbo defender earlier and saved the tears and frustration
Ahh the saddest day of my life
So, the first nice phone I ever bought myself was the S3. I had really cheap phones through school and uni, mostly because whenever the last one died, I'd barely have any money left for the new one. So I was delighted when my last cheapo broke really, it meant I could finally get something nice. Now, at my house, I have a little room attached to my garage that's a storage/craft area when I need it to be. I'd been playing around with the contents of my SD card, transferring to PC I think, and had taken the phone out of the wallet case I had because the plug didn't fit properly around the plastic of the case. I popped out to get something from the garage, phone tucked in pocket, waiting for someone to call, when what I can only describe as a freak gust of wind blew everything out of my hands and slammed me up against the garage. (Seriously, there wasn't even a breath of wind all day aside from this.) I gathered up what I'd dropped, went inside, and didn't think anything of it until my sister asked me to email her something. Pulled my phone out of my pocket, screen was smashed. Proper smashed. I almost lost it, I'd been so careful with this phone, and suddenly it was sitting there, barely usable. Needless to say, I got a craft knife and made the hole around the plug wider after shelling out $180 for the new screen.
No doubt the Otterbox Symmetry case would have solved all my problems, and would stop me doing stupid things with expensive electronics again.
I have a phone thats currently a 'smart phone' that requires the battery to be pulled out multiple times per day to reset it otherwise it wont connect to wifi or data. Apps take a few minutes to open including social networks and to call someone it can be annoying. Trying to have a decent conversation by txt or fb msging is pointless and the speaker and microphone cut out. I charge the phone fully and within 2 hours its down to 20% ! the phone is driving me nuts >:( but i do it because i need it ! black defender plsssss <3
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I saved for MONTHS to get a Galaxy S3 less than a year ago and I was super happy to finally get it but I am a naturally clumsy person and my downfall was pretty much inevitable.
The story goes like this: I was out at a party one lovely summer night, wearing my best boots and basically feeling mighty fine. The party was great and I stumbled my tipsy butt back home at about 3am. On my way I tripped with my S3 in my hands but it managed to keep itself together, despite having no case, so I thought I should put it in my pocket do it is safe for the rest of the trip and that is what I did. It stayed in there for MOST of the trip and I got home and crashed out in bed. The next morning I woke up at 11am and tore my room apart looking for it then decided I needed to trace my steps backwards and I found it... In the freshly mown grass of the field I walked through the night before. It defiantly did not survive that and all I found were bits and pieces here and there. I don't know if an Otterbox Case would have totally saved it but I think it may have reduced the damage to a few scratches and a broken lawnmower rather than an entirely shattered smart phone.
Such is my life.
In a not so distant past, I entered a programming competition and came out on top. I received a phone and loved it to bits. I put on a screen protector, and really looked after it.
One unfaithful rainy day I was rushing around trying to get stuff organised. The phone excelled in keeping me connected with things. Then it happened.
I needed to get hold of a friend in a pinch and I hurriedly took out my phone to call. As if the universe was against me that day, my well protected, well looke dafter phone leaped out of my hands as if exclaiming "free at last! from all the pampering!". Unfortunately, like humpty dumpty, it took a great fall instead. Hit the road hard, but that wasn't the end of it!
Just when I thought the worst had happened, something far more horrid awaited its fate. It bounced into a puddle of water, it sank into the puddle of water! This liquid exterminator seeped in through the holes for the power connector, the headphone, the speaker, etc.
Which is why I wish I had the Otter Commuter Case - Black.
I was sitting on the loo, with my phone in my hands, as you do. I was happily surfing Facebook and chatting to mates while I did my business. I did the paperwork, tucking my phone inside my top as I always did. As I turned to flush, it occurred to me to replace the empty toilet roll. I leaned down, pre-flush, and as I reached for the loo roll, my phone slipped out of my top. I tried to catch it... I didn't manage it. It still works... but I just feel weird about using it, even though it's been thoroughly cleaned...
So, I was running through the wind and rain with my friend. We were both wearing Arabian outfits (don't ask) and so in this weather we were freezing our ass off. We were running because we were late to a friend's 21st birthday party and was in a rush to get there. I remember messaging someone (probably a friend who was already at the party telling us to hurry up before the speech started), and obviously i did something stupid like dropping my phone. It landed in the worse position possible, due to the fact that the phone slipped and i tried to catch it only for it to be flung even further away from me; that it landed face down on an angle, then the bottom half and oh god I scared myself. I had chipped the top part of my iPhone and the bottom half landed badly and cracked it along the edges. I was so sad but had to be happy for the night till I got home, so I could cry. I was joking, I didn't cry but I was super sad :(
I would love the Otterbox Symmetry case as it looks sexy as. It would look great on the Samsung S6!
I have destroyed two devices (one phone, one iPod) belonging to my 12 year old son now. The phone was in his pocket, and despite thinking I had checked all pockets I didn't notice it when I put a load of washing on.... The iPod was camouflaged on his black duvet cover when I gathered up his bedding to put in the wash.... Neither was able to be resurrected, despite pulling them out of the wash (on 2 separate occasions - you would think I would have learned) as soon as I realised, attempting to dry out with rice, etc etc. My son has been very good about it, not making a fuss and just accepting it was bad luck (or my bad management - if only I could stop washing, what a pity that is not an option!). It would be really wonderful to win, not only a replacement phone, but the Otterbox I wish we'd had as well (I would like the Otterbox Commuter case in Glacier - no more black for us!)
I really would love to win.
so uhm one of the phones I dropped in the toilet (yes there were a few.) I was doing my business as you do on the toilet NOT EVEN USING MY PHONE i might add. When I got up to flush it, it decided that it wanted to be an Olympic swimmer and dived down into the toilet bowl. It didnt make a splash. Because it landed on one of my little excretions. Fishing it out was the most disgusting thing I've ever done. I think if I had a cool melon otterbox my phone could have succeeded in it's dreams instead dying an untimely death. #INEEDOTTERBOX
Ahh the saddest day of my life :(
I headed out to go for a run around the neighbour just to get some fresh air. I laced up my nikes, plugged my headphones into my tidy iphone 5 and began to select a good running soundtrack from spotify. I was off, going good but about halfway into my run, all of a sudden a Justin Beiber song manages to shuffle it's way into my playlist :( I knew I had to change it. Unfortunately the skip track button on my headphones wasn't responding and I didn't want to stop just to change a song so i decided to do whilst running. BAD IDEA! As I pulled my phone out of my pocket it then slips out of my grip and began falling to the concrete :( I quickly catch it by the headphones cord but it manages to disconnect from the jack and continue plummeting to the ground. I closed my eyes and began to pray haha. "please don't crack, please don't crack, please don't crack" It lands right on the corner and the cracks are history. I didn't finish my run, just turned around and walked home so upset haha. I would like a black OtterBox please! #NEEDOTTERBOX
I remember I was outside waiting for my gf to get out from school and I was listening to music from my iPhone from my speaker and then all of a sudden there was no music at all and I thought that was strange then I look on the ground and there it was my iPhone laying on the ground smashed screen but it still goes perfectly fine
And for the cases I'd like the otter box black symmetry I think its called.
The demise of my phone: one day on the way to church, i put a my phone on the roof of the car while i strapped my 2 year old into his carseat. i was newly pregnant so had pretty much no brain capacity left, let alone the fact that the hubby was hurrying me and messing with my routine - some would say sabotaging me even! the next part of the story is a blur, all i know is i got home from church minus a phone, where-ever could it be? i went back to church to look, nope, came home hoping the hubby had found it (unlikely, once when looking for batteries he reckoned he couldn't find any in the drawer i told him to look in and when i looked there was no fewer than 18 batteries in that drawer), hubby then reckoned there was a chance i'd left it on the roof - surely not! he was so convinced he drove off to look along the road. Sure enough he returned to say he'd found my phone on the side of the aucklands ellerslie roundabout motorway entrance, it had done pretty well to hang on that far actually! he then let me know his plan was for me to run out amongst the traffic to pick it up as he parked on the side of the roundabout. We strapped the 2 year old back into the car who was excitedly proclaiming 'mummys phone got run over!' and off we went. i risked my life in the traffic that day, all i got back was some of my cards all scuffed up, the phone was gone, squashed to bits by the ever persistent auckland traffic, there's no photo to add to this story, that's how little there was left. Otterbox feel sorry for me, a stressed pregnant mumma sabotaged by her husband, surely such a drama would never befall my phone in your lovely Melon pop symmetry case!
My poor phone got smashed up when it was dropped by my preschooler! Screen was shattered :( I would love a Glacier colour defender otterbox, they look really tough, like they can handle anything a preschooler throws at them
Ooh ooh, no. How cool is that melon pop symmetry otterbox! Love it, that would be my pick
Well, although my phone was left on the roof of our car and flew off when my fiance took off, smashing the screen but thankfully the phone still goes! This story is to win the S6 and casual blue Otto box for my man. He is incredibly hard working, and as part of his job he used his smart phone a lot (more than you would think on a dairy farm!) And while climbing to the top of a pivot (big irrigation system that waters the grass) He dropped his phone and it smashed onto one of the bars on the bottom, obliterating his lovely S5. and at the moment we can't afford a new phone for him. I'm so proud of his achievements in this industry and he has even been nominated for north Canterbury dairy farm employee of the year! He totally deserves to win a new phone.
It brings a tear to my eye even thinking about this. I was one with my HTC One M7. My HTC was one with Me. We were an item. 2 peas in a pod. A match made in cellular heaven. It was a cold and extremely wet day on our construction site in the city. In fact, that day the main road in mission bay was under water. My boss had been late to work after crashing his van in a flurry of rain on the northwestern motorway. He was angry to say the least. All in all this was one of those days. I was given a task. The task to rule them all. A task so vile and foul that even the most manly of men with a massive beard would whimper at the thought of it...
I was tasked with going under the 100 year old set of stairs, well known for it's vast collection of rat faeces and dead, well, rats. I was crawling through the inch thick layer of poo in order to pull in some new cables when all of a sudden the old rotten wooden floorboard beneath my left leg melted away, into a cloud of dust. Then, I felt it. My baby, my one and only, slipped from my pockets grasp. Time slowed down, and 3 seconds later I heard it crash, and I mean CRASH onto the floor below.
I escaped the foul rat faece crawl space as fast as I could, and bolted down the temporary stair case to the floor below. This floor happened to be the basement floor. The basement that was being fitted out to become a new parking lot. The concrete walls hadn't even been poured and there was no drainage. As it was one of the wettest days of the year, the ground had literally become a lake. The entire floor was below road level so parts of it had flooded with up to a foot of water. Then I saw it. The hole in the floor, and a forest of rebar poles sticking out of the ground, and my poor HTC. Laying face down on a wet ground. I took to one knee and picked it up, slowly at first, then quickly spun it around...
My HTC had landed screen first on the very tip of one of the rebar poles, and considering the 6 metre drop, it had smashed through the screen and into the chipset of the phone itself. It was doomed. I was doomed. I was broken.
This was over 1 year ago now. And to this day I am still scarred by the whole ordeal. Please, Mightyape and Otterbox, if the gods can destroy the one thing I love, YOU can make a difference to this broken soul. Please guys!
If I am lucky enough to win I would love to wrap my new device in a Realtree Camo Defender series case!
Went on a three day backpacking trip last year. Pretty sure I had pacjed some snaplock bags for valuables in case it got wet but they were nowhere to be found after we set up camp. And of course we got hit with rain all three days. Anyway i managed to keep it dry for the most part. It wasn't until I was getting in the car to go home that my phone slipped from my pocket and found its way in between the closing door and door frame where I jae's it a eternally destroyed the screen.
This goes back 5 or 6 odd years , the day started great it was my birthday and i had just bought the original iPhone from the states as they were not selling in NZ a few weeks earlier. It was my pride in joy ! It was with me always. So the morning started with a coffee followed by my morning toilet visit. My son who was 3 at the time was in the lounge watching TV and i heard my iPhone ring . Sitting there i heard the sound of tiny feet moving across the lounge , stopping and then start moving towards me. The ringing grew louder , i called out to just leave it , its okay daddy will get it later. But the words fell on deaf ears , I still can see his face , the joy , the pride beaming that he was doing something good , something for me. He was barely walking they were awkward movements to say the least but here he came arms out stretched with my iPhone in his hand. He had built up quite a lot of momentum and as he finished the distance of the sharp left and turn and small hallway he was on me. I reached for the iPhone and we collided, in an instant i knew this was wrong , so wrong. My left hand wrapped around his , but made little contact with the iPhone it slipped, fell and hit my left inner thigh , my right hand filled with neatly folder toilet paper shot out but was to late, it actually if I'm honest just added force to the iPhones downward movement. Its at this part of the story you must remember from start to finish this whole thing took maybe 30 seconds. I can still remember the impact on my fingertips as i watched my precious iPhone full into the darkness between my legs , knowing that the toilet had be well used this morning. Instinct kicked in . I jumped up , pants around ankles and dove my hand into the dark crap filled toilet , nothing mattered , there was only hope that a miracle would happen. In one swift movement my hand was in and out followed by a wild waving arm movement to rid the iPhone of the filthly water and fresh morning bowel release , leaving a trail of spray up the wall . I stood there just shocked , and just destroyed. I looked over and the look on my sons face had changed to wide eyed fear. I can only imagine what it must have looked like to him, but lucky he doesn't remember that fateful day. The iPhone never worked again , and i now have it mounted in a display as a reminder of how quickly things change in this world. Casual blue Otterbox would be nice.
I dropped my iPhone 4 (which was already in need of an upgrade) into the toilet. It slipped out of my back pocket in my tight jeans right into the bowl. Now its so slow its almost unusable, I get so frustrated that i want to smash it. The buttons have to be pushed approx 4 times for them to work and every app takes forever to open and process simple tasks. We just bought a new house and i cant afford a new one
My wife had he phone in her back pocket while kiddie-wrangling at the supermarket. When our son had to go to the bathroom, she took him into the customer toilet at Countdown. After he had finished, she decided to use the toilet as well since there were a few errands to get to that day.
As she proceeded, her phone fell out of her back pocket (which she had forgotten was in there), and straight into the public toilet.... Gross.
If she were to win the phone and case, she would absolutely love the Cool Melon Otter Box case. While it may not protect against public toilets, it would still keep her phone protected from the kids, work, and daily use. May have even given her enough leeway to get her phone out of the toilet in time!
Twas grocery shopping day.
Well not really, we live a bit away and we have alot of stairs and stuff and we do not like doing heavy lifting up 40 stairs. So we get the food men from count down to deliver!
I was sitting there texting away to my friend when
all of a sudden the Grocery man tapped his boot on the door to grab my attention, as his hands were full.
I was not expecting it at all and I jolted with surprise, in doing so dropped my phone... on the corner *gasp*. In doing which smashing the side and cracking the screen wide. Thankfully I sent it back to the shop and they fixed it up for me. But ever since I've been looking for a case that would protect my phone from myself. XD
If I could have a case it would be the Symmetry Glacier case... looks very sleek and stylish ^_^
Also the melon defender would be mint
The rest of my comment didnt post :( I would love the new S6, i have been eyeing them up online like the dreamer i am. And it would look amazing in the OtterBox cool melon case.
Story by Elle (James' other half) ^_^
Typical story, 2 boys under 6, juggling backpacks, lunchboxes, shoes, mail, handbag, shopping bags and phone when oops there goes the phone on tiled floor - SMASHED IT, bugger.
I had only had my s3 for like 3 months when my very unfortunate accident happened lol.
We were rushing around getting ready to go out and I threw my phone on the front seat of the car. My daughter for some unknown reason was playing with a shot glass in the back seat when she decided to drop it over into the front.
Of course the damn thing had to land right on my screen and smash the whole thing lol.it did still work for awhile after but I noticed it slowly getting worse and worse until it finally died altogether.
Shortly after I had purchased my iPhone 4S I was sitting on the bus and, butterfingers that I am, it slipped out of my hands, sans case or any sort of protection, and fell quite loudly onto the bus floor. Was incredibly terrified that it was going to start sliding around as the bus turned a corner. It mostly survived, with only a few minor cosmetic blemishes. To this day I have managed never to drop it again.
Would love the Otterbox Symmetry Gridlock case!
I don't own a phone -_- ...... :'( Forever Alone
This will both delight and disgust, you have been warned.
So I had just finished 'taking care of business' and I realized I had to stand up and take a couple of steps to grab a new roll. As I stood my phone which was in the pocket of my hoodie fell out.
At first I managed to get a hand to it with a almost contortionist move involving bending, swatting and literally diving for the floor at the same time and for a fat bastard like me that was very painful. So I got a hand too it but could seal the deal. I managed to flick it up to avoid it hitting the floor with the intention of catching it on the way down.
Well by this time my pants and underwear were well tangled and there was nothing I could do to avoid a faceplant which happened and measured about 4.8 on the richter scale, of course being Christchurch it was all good, we don't get out of bed for anything less than a 5.0. This faceplant lead to a few seconds of dazed and confused and when I focused again I looked around for the phone and like you are thinking now figured it must be in the bowl.
I looked in but there was not a hope of seeing to the bottom, I had a curry the night before, so I reached in and fished around, it was one of the most disgusting things I have ever done and it was unnecessary, it wasn't in there. After scrubbing till I had removed several layers of skin and briefly considering amputation I resumed my hunt for the phone and I found it in the shower, it had found the ONLY other puddle of water in the entire bathroom, and had got a cracked screen at some point in the journey, needless to say it was ruined.
And that is my story except after all that movement I didn't even try to wipe, it was time to cut my losses and jump in the shower.
I think a Black Defender would be best for me.
It was the lead up to Easter weekend. Freed from my shackles of work to enjoy the weekend. I began my voyage home via daycare to collect my son. during my travel i entered a single laned roundabout when suddenly i was undertaken by another vehicle entering the turn and i curbed the car. phone leaves the console and slams into the passenger door. Instantly i reacted with a friendly hand gesture and raised the horn. this is before recognising the gang insignia on their vests. Resulting in a quick escape on my part.
Continuing the journey i collected my son. Picked up his bag and almost made it to the gate when an out of control 2 year old hurdled towards me in a solid timber cart and nailed me from the side lost my footing and squashed the 2 year old as i headed for the concrete and launching my Galaxy S4 and wallet from my hi vis chest pocket severely damaging the trim and now have connectivity issues.
Great start to Easter. A great start to june would be an S6 and the gruntyest black otterbox you have.
Shiny new Samsung s3. Once lived a beautiful, majestic Samsung s3; the phone that was very well known to all. What these people didn't know is there lived a very evil, possessed phone among these majestic phones. A very excited young lady received this phone as a gift, she had no idea what to expect.
The day her warranty expired, well a few days after, this evil phone's charging port decided to stop working, it was fine though because she found a cheap wireless charger for it on Ebay; she thought this was the last of it's evil plans, she was wrong.
The phone was fine, for a few weeks. On a hot summers day in January, 2015, she was just taking her phone out of its case to put it on charge (the wireless charger could not charge through the case she kept it safe in). But as she was walking into her room, that is fully carpeted, it jumped out of her hand right onto the wooden frame of her doorway, shattering the screen. This was the once and only time she had ever dropped this evil phone.
While upset, she delt with a cracked screen for another month. The phone was mainly fine, it froze up on the odd occasion. The evil phone then began dropping calls, loosing signal and the speaker when she used her phone made it sound like she was speaking in water. It began bit by bit, parts would stop working, work the next day, stop working again the next.
She thought it would be a fantastic idea to fix it herself, to buy the parts she needed off Ebay and fix it for a quarter of the price it was going to cost to get it professionally repaired. The parts soon arrived, ready for her to begin.
Many Youtube video tutorials later, she thought she was ready. With all the right tools and the tutorial taking her through it step by step, it was going to be easy! Again, she was wrong, in fact it was an utter disaster. The phone decided to stop working completely when she replaced the screen, she couldn't understand what was wrong until she saw she also took out the LCD screen, stupid mistake. The phone would cost lots to repair now so she gave up.
She learned her lesson, never do it yourself unless you don't mind breaking it in the process. Or you will have to use an old windows phone, which I promise, are not what they seem.
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This story is true (even though very dramatic), it is still sitting in my top draw, broken.
A Samsung S6 would be amazing phone to replace my backup phone (which might I add has horrible apps, I cant do anything on it!). It would look beautiful and Majestic in the OtterBox Case - Purple Amethyst.
(Please note MightyApe I have DM'd you on Instagram my phones corpse with the username GraveMercy)
I was having a pretty rough day a year or two ago when I had to run through to rain to get into a mates car, where I promptly let my phone slip out of my hands and inbetween the rails the seats slid back on, which no-one noticed till we heard a crunch and found the back case cracked in half and the screen shattered. Wish i'd had something sturdy like an otterbox to save it ;_;
the S6 is really cool from what i've seen and would look amazing in a black commuter case.
So it was tge fated day.... That day of meeting my girlfriends parents, what better way to tell myself "this will be fine". But no, as i approached her parents, with one of the mpst awkward smiles ive ever conjured, what best way to impress than by stumbling over my own feet and send my phone soaring through the air and past her parents..
Will never live it down, and the looks of shock they had.
I don't break phones because I'm pedantic as all hell but my mum has a talent for breaking phone screens. She's never owned a phone which hasn't had cracks through it. Sometimes its sitting on the phone when its in her back pocket (WHY WOULD YOU PUT YOUR PHONE IN YOUR BACK POCKET) and sometimes it just slips off silly places and cracks on the ground. I think her current phone (an S3) suffered the latter of the two fates. It still "works" but its not a phone i could use. This would be a really cool mothers day present because i cant afford one =\ I think the glacier defender case would be a good fit for here (in part because its tough as nails)
Late mothers day present obviously haha
A dark and stormy night... (have to set the scene right) just finished dinner with friends in town and walking to the car, phone (s4) in my hand. Walking across the road I trip over the wooden block-aids they use to stop cars parking too far forward, luckily I ease my fall by throwing my hand out first, landing gracefully only to find it's the hand I was holding my phone in which the screen cracked and non-responsive. At least the food was nice :P.
I would love the OtterBox Commuter Case to protect my phone, definitely sports the style while having enough protection.
It was one of my worst fears come to light, the loss of my loved one...IPhone 5.
Let's start where all good stories start.... At the beginning.
It was a normal night, the rats were difficult and the day at work was not one to cheer about. The constant whinging n whining of my youngest just wanting to have a "quick" play.... I had the feeling in my belly that you get when its not a good idea...... Ok rat you can play but only for a little bit.
Finally piece and quiet, you could hear a pin drop. The wife took the elder one out for a quick run to the shops so the night was getting better. I decided to head to the garage to find some tools, as I rummaged through the tools I heard a blood curtling scream. I sprinted to the house calling out my sons name, I could hear crying in the bathroom...... My stomach dropped, my fear had come to haunt me.
As I walked in the bathroom my son said, " Dad I dropped it and the light went off"
Where is it??? You guessed it, with his dinner in the toilet !!
As I reached in to grab her I know she was gone, a tear ran down my cheek not only from the smell but the loss also, RIP, no hot water cupboard and rice could bring her back from her dreaded ending.
Although if she was wearing the Otterbox I am adamant we would still be together today!!
One rainy afternoon, I headed up to the stock yards to sort out some calves. After 5 hours of rain, hail, wind, being bunted around by calves, not having a chance to eat let alone pee, I pulled out my phone to call my hubby and let him know that no, I wasn't going to be home to cook dinner as I still had a couple more hours work to do. Unfortunately, my hands were cold....it was wet.....my phone slipped....I watched it bounce out of my hand.....then out of my other hand.....then off the cat walk....BOOM straight in to calve deep mud and calf poo. Needless to say, I panicked, tried to pick it up and then it was promptly stood on by a 100kg calf! One ruined phone, no chance of saving it. Otterbox would have saved it, quick rinse under the hose and I'd have been good to go!
I had to go pick my daughter up from her friend's house. As I got into the car I put my phone into the pocket on my hoodie, which is very small & shallow. I got to where I was going and as I opened the car door & got out of the car my phone went flying out of my pocket and fell on to the road. Luckily there were no other cars coming or it would have been crushed completely, instead it now has dents & scratches all over it.
If I won I would love the OtterBox Symmetry Case for Samsung Galaxy S6 - Gridlock please, thank you :)
It was a long day, working from 8am to 6pm on a the most dreaded day of the week; a Monday.
Was a long drive home stuck in traffic. Was really stressing to get home as one of the fans in my carborator for my car was broken, so if the car was on too long, it would overheat and seize.
Had made it just in the driveway when the car seized. I was overwhelmed with joy to make it home after an exhausting day.
As I got out the car, my phone had slid out of my pocket onto our pebble- paved driveway.
My whole world came crumbling down.
The screen was face-down, so I was still hopeful. I owned Schrodinger's phone. The screen was both cracked and un-cracked at the same time.
However, even with a rugged case on, my screen didn't stand a chance against the stone chilling beneath my screen.
I now have a spider-web of cracks along my screen, radiating from the point of where the stone hit. The screen is held rogether by the protector attached to it.
Makes it hard to interact when I have a billion rainbows stretching across the screen.
Would love a Galaxy S6 and a sturdier casual blue otterbox case to replace my phone.
My instagram is slightlycultured_jp
yesterday I thought I lost my phone spent hours looking turned the hole house up looking for it I was not happy looked in the most random places like the bathroom cupboards nothing then I sat down to think we're I had it last couldn't think of anything then my 3year old daughter says
"mum what you makeing mess for?"
I said " iv lost my phone that's why its a big mess"
An she says "no (giggle) I put it in to wash"
Me. "Huh you put it where?"
Her. "I show you mum"
she's put it in the washing machine
My gosh I was shocked it's now completely dead all my photos videos contacts everything gone my heart sunk
I then had to explain to her what she done not the best moment
Now I have a clean broken phone
Time to start saving for another or
If I won a s6 I'd love the cool melon case to keep the phone safe
If only aye good luck everyone
Simple story really, brand new phone, charged it up and went off to a friends house, put it into my hoodie pocket and went to their bathroom..... before I could even get started (luckily)"plop" into the toilet it goes..... didn't even have time to buy an otterbox for it before it was drowned with no return.... very expensive day :( I would have chosen a "gridlock" case to go with it...
I was working on the Christmas weekend helping my parents out. I was on the forklift moving a box and by surprise my phone slipped out of my pocket, gasp! It landed on the screen side and cracked :( It recently died out so now i cant turn it on. If only i had the OtterBox!!
I dont have a phone so i took my picture with my webcam and uploaded to imgur
https://imgur.com/gallery/RxYlWJx
Unfortunately it's not a very unique or edge-of-your-seat type story... But my lovely 13 month old son thought it would be fun to throw my brand new s3 over the deck. The phone was so new I hadn't even bought a case for it yet and sadly it wasn't insured either. However, I think winning an s6 and a beautiful Otterbox Glacier phone case would be one of the BEST Mother's Day gifts (second only to hand drawn cards of course hehe) that I could imagine receiving. I'll also agree not to bring up the broken phone for the rest of his life haha :)
'Twas a cold winters night. After a 10k run i was just turning into my street with my music playing through my iPhone 4 which was in my pocket at the time. As i turned into my street I got a text and decided that i could check it seeing as i was on the home stretch, so i reached into my pocket and as i drew my phone out i caught my shoe on an uneven piece of footpath, tipping me off balance, i fumbled with the phone and it fell from my hands snagging mid flight on my earphone cord and sort of bouncing a little, with my lightning quick reflexes i instinctively kicked my foot out to catch the phone. Of course i just managed to punt the poor thing down the path where it hit the ground hard and bounced into a bush. I had almost completely tripped over at this point so i didnt see where it landed. Eventually the text reminder lit up the screen and i was left with a huge smash right across my phone. Sucked.
If this story is good enough i would love the Symmetry - Glacier case!
Also here is the damage in the form of an instagram https://instagram.com/p/2VYzjgEPsw/?taken-by=pshiznipz
And I've uploaded a picture on Instagram @jeyskeez :-) I share this account with hubby x
I was a non believer... I had lived for decades without a smart phone. .. I had wound the handle and talked to the exchange... i had shared a single land line. .. i had made reverse charge calls from OS ... and when mobile arrived i even tried that stupid "push to talk" walkie talkie idea... all served a purpose but were far from life changing. Then in a moment of weekness i bought my S4. We bonded immediately. .. work, friends, family... all blended seemlessly ..i discarded my camera. .. spent less time sitting at my desk. .. stayed in touch with family so easily. This tiny little devise not only made life easier. . But more enjoyable. My mistake was using the bra pocket. .. reasonably secure in the up right positron. .. but when you lean forward to open a padlocked gate... Not so much :( while the phone remained in tact.. and functional (kept beeping instructions at me) the screen was totally Black. .Even in a leather wallet case the short fall of about 50cm my world was plunged into darkness... i am practising my s6 swagger. . And would love a casual blue otterbox
Well...
My story isn't quite as sobby or... Unusual. I have the most adorable white Samsung 3 mini. I got it when I was 14 almost 15, a gift from an uncle in law I barely know or see.
6 months in, enjoying the freedom this new bundle of connectivity in my pocket, that allowed me to make new friends and strengthen bonds with friends I already had, my earphone jack somehow broke; only one earphone, the left one, would play music when I tried playing music. Horrible, I know. But the problem was that I couldn't take back my phone with its warranty to get it fixed- my uncle has the warranty. So I thought I could live with it; its been okay, really. But this little tired thing is now cracked and fritzy, and at any given time after the battery has run out, could decide not to turn back on. A smart phone was something new to me; a big upgrade from a square Nokia brick... Having this social tool has brought me so much happiness. Having a phone meant even in the direst and most stressful events, I could contact my family and friends when I needed to. I'm still a student; I'm struggling to find funds for my ball ticket let alone a new phone. I suppose that what I'm trying to say is that I may not be the most in need of a new phone, but it helps. I think its great that MightyApe has given people a opportunity to win such a great prize. Good luck to every competitor! I'd like a black defender case- maybe my phone won't break when I drop it with that case!
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This is the second time I've smashed a phone screen; the first was on my birthday and I thought I had tucked it safely into my bra pocket.....nope, slips out and smashes on the concrete. Happy birthday to me. I sent if off to get fixed and it comes back totally not working, but the glass was fixed! The guy totally denies ever doing anything and refuses to do anything more. That phone was totally unuseable so I replace it with the same thing to stop my parents questioning my spending.
A month later, that one slips out of my pocket getting out of my car for work one morning when I was already running late. Awesome.
My smartphone was obsolete (palmone treo - very old), but I used it all the time. It had survived so much. The antennae and screen had been chewed by my dog (who was a puppy at the time), but still it worked. However, the phone died an unnatural death when it fell out of my pocket in the bathroom and fell directly into the toilet. Despite my attempts to resurrect it (fished it straight out, wiped with hand sanitizer, dried it out in a bag of rice) the phone never made another call. I was also stuck on the day as that phone was my main means of note taking and I had no pen and paper with me.
I am also on a major budget so my replacement phone is an old-fashioned cellphone with no smartphone capabilities. I really miss my smartphone.
I don't know whether I'm lazy or efficient but instead of walking three extra steps to lay my phone gently on the bed or bedside table I decide to toss it onto the bed as I walk past. The phone of course hits the bed and bounces off onto our hard wood floors. This is probably the one time I don't have a soft pile of dirty clothes to catch it. The worst part about this is that in my eyes it is not an accident it is me being an idiot.
Case of choice would be purple amethyst
It was a calm sunny morning when the pop of a Facebook notification finally pushed my father to breaking poin. He cracked grabbed a hammer and a 6 inch nail and hammered it into the tree outside. Lest we forget Nokia 2k15
This story involved a multiple fumble moment. The decision to have a bigger screen meant a Samsung note 3. Screen was big alright. So big that it was difficult to slip into the front pocket, as it made me look like I was wearing a flat rectangular box, or in the back pocket, as I have sat on it far too many times to count, or in a jacket pocket, as it pull the jacket in an a skewed shape like a lop side hunch back of Notre dam, or in the side pocket of a tramping pants...it ends up pulling the pants down far enough to show parts of bright sun-depleted areas.
Further to such, it is so ridiculous when the phone slips from my feeble grip, carrying a coffee and note book and a bag, and lands on the most tiniest part exposed within the phone case. Obviously I had not learnt my lesson from the first 3 times and it happened a further two unfortunate evens. Having to learn the phone is not a great football, it has taken a wee bit too much war damage and now seems to decide to play extremely loud music at the most inopportune moments to freezing like a block of ice. The battery too seems to dance to my funky selection of music and the connectivity to both WiFi and Bluetooth are just so fantastically bissmal. ....help please......
i remember that one time when i tried to lie to mightyape about i how wrecked my perfectly working but outdated phone in order to get a new shiny phone but ended up writing this instead. good times. oh and uh symmetry gridlock case..just in case.
I washed my phone once, i left it in my pocket and it got very very wet inside, i put rice in it and it still didn't work. Got another phone and its totally crap, its so slow, the 512mb of ram is nothing. I can;t even play clash of clans on it
Friday the 13th (13/09/14) started my run of bad luck with not 1 but 3 HTC OneX's. The first one accidentally slipped out of my hoodie pocket onto a newly shingled road when visiting a friend. One very shattered screen..... Luckily still under warranty, took it back to the shop I purchased phone from and they took it away for repair. Since there was absolutely no way I was going without a phone, they kindly scouted out another of the same model to buy, $1000 later. Fast forward two weeks, while mucking about at speedway with the push truck crew, I attempted to put my new phone into my shirts pocket, next thing I know, it's face down on the gravel. Uh-oh, yup another screen shattered. A week later I get the call to go pick up the original phone. Get it home and chuck it on charge, whoa, what's this? HTC update was completed by the technicians, and now stuck on airplane mode.... Back to the shop we go. Even a hard reset can't fix it so full replacement, thank you. I took great care of this one until a year later, when spectating at speedway it slipped out if my hand and hit the ONLY stone in the grandstand, shattering that screen too! I've replaced the cursed HTC OneX's with the newer model HTC M8, grabbing a protective case for it. This one I guard with my life!
Which story do I tell! All from one phone.
There have been many close calls in the beginning. Thrown by a 2 year old, dropped by a 2 year old and oh yes of course stood on my by a 2 year old. Magically my s3 mini stayed intact and usable. It had faults to begin with that didn't get worse thanks to my daughter's test run with it.
It wasn't until meeting up with other mum friends at chipmunks did my phone ever so slowly slide off my lap ontthehe cars seat "phew" I though as it even more slowly started sliding off the seat landing only a short distance onto the concrete standing up. With mt eyes open wide reaching out for it *flop* it tapped downwards onto a very veey tiny rock resulting in a badly cracked screen. I have yet to answer myself as to why didn't I just grab it (may of been slow motion in my head). Months down the track still somewhat usable aslong as you didn't press hard I had someone send it off for me to get a replacement screen. All was well for the first couple of months then one fine evening at work I pickup my phone that was with my drink and lunch off the floor in a safe spot to find once again a crack. Not just any crack but a full blow kick crack! I have no idea how it happened but every few days after that a new crack appeared.
Now I have a still somewhat usable phone and many lovely lil cuts in my thumbs with a big piece poking up and out threatening to fall out. My now 4 year old tends to find it so there is the worry if the piece of naughty glass decides to popup but thankfully it only seems to do it for me, how sweet.
There are alot more stories of what my phone has gone through but alas, the keyboard is stuffing up!
https://m.mightyape.co.nz/product/OtterBox-Defender-Case-for-Samsung-Galaxy-S6-Cool-Melon/23009953 for the case would be lovely ♡
My husband has been working on a dairy farm for almost six years. He's gone through three not-very-smartphones (regular call and text ones) in this short period of time.
The first one, he lost in one of the paddocks while doing a farm walk. The second, he found soaked in mud and who-knows-what-else on the lane to the milking shed trampled on by bovines.
The third, of which I remember fondest, pretty much saved him from a nasty case of broken ribs as it absorbed a kick from a cow he was treating. It shattered on impact.
He now uses a pink $20 Nokia and it has been 318 days without an incident. *insert JAWS theme here*
A Purple Amethyst Otterbox would be perfect for him, I reckon! Easy to spot and will keep his phone safe from the elements for when he's at work and, more importantly, will let him finally have a smartphone so he can be on the 21st century with everyone else.
I had just gotten my first ever job at my local New World supermarket and can't tell you how excited I was when I received my first paycheck. I decided to buy an iPhone because I felt rich and thought I needed a new phone due to my current one being non existent. After some hunting I finally found and bought a shiny new iPhone 4s.
Later that day, I was waiting at my bus stop to get home. I didn't have a case for that phone at the time (OtterBox would have definitely been a good option) and when I went to lock the phone from the top side, it slipped out of my hand and fell straight down to the rough concrete. Luckily it landed on its back rather than the delicate screen. The back glass shattered completely.
About a week later I had learnt from my mistakes and bought a case for my phone but it was apparently not as good as I had hoped. I was on the second floor of my house talking to my mother about why it's important to have a phone case. I showed her by dropping my phone onto the carpet. Things didn't go as planned as the phone landed on its corner, bounced sideways right underneath the railing of the stairs and it landed with a smack on the corner of the wood burner downstairs. Mum laughed, I cried and decided that maybe it was time for a better phone. Or case. Or grip.
I've had very bad luck with phones in my life, hopefully if I win this competition then the OtterBox will relieve me of this misfortune! If I win I'd love the Gridlock Symmetry case - sleek and black is the way to go.
This story goes from bad to not so bad to unlucky.
I was leaving a car dismantler after buying a part from them, it was a hot Monday morning so I had the front windows down. My S4 was in its winshield holder because I was using it as a GPS to get back home. As I took a semi hard left turn, the S4 decided it was much better outside than in. It slid out of its holder, across the dashboard, and out the window onto the road behind. I immediately pulled over to pick it up before the traffic drove over it. When I put it back together and turned it on, it functioned normally and didn't even have a cracked screen! Just some meaty battle scars around the edges. I was super happy that it still worked, until I went to put it gas 40 minutes later. As I walked inside of the Z gas station to pay, I opened my wallet phone case to get my eftpos card out, and there goes the S4 crashing to the ground which resulted in the screen cracking. Hows that for unlucky haha. I dont have Instagram but I do have a picture. Here's a link to it
http://iforce.co.nz/i/1qb2t1yl.gg0.jpg
This one time, at breakfast; I dropped my s4 into my cereal.
Does the Purple Amethyst Defender protect against milk and cornflakes?
Ive dropped my phones all over the place. I go for a bike ride and stop to check the time or messages and Ive dropped it trying to get it back in my bag. Not to speak of the times that I have tried putting it in my pocket while cycling (when Ive stopped - dont text and cycle)... urgh! Now because of this I have to leave my phone in my backpack and I miss calls or texts because I cant hear it/feel it.
Smart phones have that nice giant screen made of destructaglass... glass that has a tendency to shatter on sneeze. So if I win a S6 I would need the case that has the greatest protection for the screen... symmetry white - with customised diamond glass screen :)
If I were I to pick an OtterBox case, it'd be the Symmetry Glacier one
Just gonna keep it short and simple.
Was driving new born baby home from the waitakere hospital. As I pulled into driveway I couldn't wait for my parents to see our lovely daughter, so I hurried out of the driver's seat to the back seat. Then i heard something drop onto the concrete and bounced touching top of my shoe (S3).I don't know how the phone fell out of my pocket, maybe the phone was resting on my lap or i may have clipped it off the side door - i cannot recall. The LCD on my phone is cracked in couple of places and I have been using this phone for the last 6 months. I was gutted at the time but remained happy it wasn't my daughter I dropped. I took it that my daughter is safely home and it may have been good luck to smash something on the ground (hehe). Although I wish I still had a tough casing like the OtterBox.
Product ID: 23009934 or 23009933.
If i get to win a phone and case, I guess I'll be giving it away to my wife as a present (because I still haven't thank her by buying her a gift for being a wonderful mummy). -- I'll use her S4.
Good luck to others! :)
It was -15°c, as per usual in a Canadian winter. I'd only been there for two months and had bought my Galaxy s2 (my first smart phone) the day I arrived. My friend and I were trapped out side our apartment block with no key or friends to call to let us in. So we stood freezing our butts off waiting for someone to come out so we could get inside. As we waited we decided it would be a good idea to do 360 ninja kicks at icicles to keep our selves warm! As you'd expect my friend managed to slip and land right on his tail bone, putting him out of action. I decided to do one more, as I did I felt my phone slide out of my front hoodie pocket and fly through the air, grazing my finger tips as I lunged for it.. It hit the ground with an earth shaking thump. I crossed my fingers and hoped it was okay (this phone had taken some serious hits with no damage prior!) as I picked it up and turned it over the entire shattered screen just fell away to the ground :( as my friend and I picked it off the ground, we didn't see someone leave the apartment building and missed our only chance for the next two hours to get back inside. Needless to say, it was a sad time all round! I also had to go another 5 months with no phone before I saved enough for a new one :'(
If you like my story I would love the symmetry melon pop otter box! I wish I had had one for my last poor little phone
Having a nice conversation on the phone when a wasp flies next to my head. Survival instincts make me swipe at it. Wrong hand. Off flies my phone through the air into the ground. wasp 1, phone 0
Last time I dropped a phone, I tried to catch it with my foot out of reflex and kicked it at someone's head. Somehow broke the screen more than the person.
Walking out of our local electronics store with a brand new iPhone 4. My eyes were gleaming.
This was my very first smart phone and I couldn't wait to get home and try out all the cool new things that a smart phone had to offer.
It was a tough decision back then (and still is) between the iPhone and the Galaxy, I researched the internet for months trying to establish which one I would get. It blew me away how passionate people were about their smart phones.
According to my girlfriend at the time, I am the most indecisive person in the world. So while talking to the salesman in the shop and tossing up between the two smart phones I came up with an amazing idea.... Wait for it.... I asked "What smart phones do you guys have?"
"Well half of us have iPhones and the other half have Galaxys".
In the the end, eeny, meeny miney moe would have to do.
I was a builder in those days and I was pretty chuffed with myself after showing all the boys my flash new phone in its flash new Spider Man case. I used to keep it in my shirt pocket, that way I thought it would be easier to hear over all the loud noises you get on a building site. Lets just say I don't use that pocket anymore.
It had only been a couple of days since I got my new toy, I was at work and I must admit I was a little tired from staying up all night playing angry birds.
I was 3 stories high that day, working on a temporary handrail around the edge of the building. I lent over the edge to tighten up the bolts holding up the handrail when something slid out of my shirt pocket. My shiny new iPhone in its shiny new Spider Man case was plummeting to its unfortunate demise. The greatest piece of technology i had ever laid my hands on was now falling in what seemed like slow motion.
It took an eternity for it to hit the ground, I remember thinking ironically how ideal some of Spider Man's special powers would be right about now, but alas. As my fancy new iPhone reached it's final destination it exploded into a very expensive display of flying glass and microchips.
The walk to the ground floor was a long one. I wasn't sad or angry, I don't think the human mind had invented an emotion for destroying your smart phone yet. And as I arrived at my smart phones final resting place I couldn't help but smile just a little bit. My Spider Man case survived.
Oh sorry, the Otterbox Defender in black would be perfect.
Thank you.
A cat decided to climb on a set of drawers that my phone had been sitting on charging (first time leaving it up there.)
Anyway the cat jumps up onto the set of drawers and unbalances them. Drawers fall over and the phone ends up under them.
The front has been beaten up pretty bad. The corner of the drawers has the the phone at least twice and I cant really use the phone without risking getting glass in my fingers. (this isn't the first time a cat has broken an electrical device of mine.
Sadly to say at the moment I could really use a new phone and If it would come with the casual blue defender Otterbox case that would be amazing.
Oh and by the way this happened this morning (7/05/2015) at 4am.. so i am currently writing this up not long after the incident. (with small hope of winning)
Thanks Mighty Ape for giving us the chance to win a new phone.
I was once on a magical trip flying through space when all of a sudden i ended up being with the coolest velociraptor.
I ended up wanting to take a selfie with it but at that moment it stole my phone, this causing it to practically explode the screen of my phone.
I rushed back to 2014 to see if there was anything i could possibly do, but there was no hope for my phone, it was gone.
To this day it still breaks my heart.
I had spent the whole night putting together a powerpoint presentation for my uni assessment. The next day I turned up to class with my notes on my galaxy s3. I was all ready to present and my lecturer tripped me with her chair. A class of 54 students watched my phone fly across the room and smash on the floor. All I got that day was a pat on the back and a sorry. I still have the dead phone to verify this story to friends and family.
Our children all live overseas, for our anniversary a couple of years ago they shouted us a trip over to be with them, it was my birthday a few weeks before, they all put in and sent me my first smartphone. 2 days before we left I developed a cataract, so I was down to one eye. The day arrived, we excitedly made the journey, it was a hassel and things went wrong, I use a wheechair and at one point the couldn't find it for 4 hours, anyway, we arrived, went through customs, got my phone out to text, saw our family, threw my arms up in excitement and my phone flew across the terminal, luckily, they boughtt me a new one, we're off to see them again in a few months
Continuned: I havnt told them yet that on the way home from our trip last time, we headed up to the deck to watch the planes leave, we were texing and I was crying etc, our flight got called and off we went. When it came to sitting in our seats, I went to turn my phone off and I'd left it upstairs. When we got home we tried ringing the airport but it was never found, im now using a very old sharpe gx 30i thats years old and worn. Do you think they'll notice?
Contd again., id love the Defender Cool Melon or the poppy petal Symmetry or the lovelyn Eden Teal if im the lucky one please.
My brother texted me my dad had a heart attack. I was so shocked that i dropped my phone off the deck, and broke it, so i couldn't even reply to ask how he was or how bad it was!!! I definitely needed an Otterbox case because the sometimes when you need your phone the most you break them, or you run out of power.
i had to go on a mad scramble to find my old brick phone so I could call him back! Worst half hour of my life so far. Smart phones are too useful, and too important to risk breaking.
I would choose commuter grey if I won.
Over about a week I dropped my s3 at my daughters Kindy and cracked the screen then in the weekend I had some really bad news forgot my phone was down my top and went swimming with it. The worst bit is I'm still paying for the phone so now I got a crappy cheepy phone.
The sun was glowing like a baboon's bum (no offence, Monkeys), while the sky was as blue as the pulsating vein on my husband's temple, who had reluctantly agreed to take a leisurely stroll along the beach with me and thus forsaking his beloved tv motor-sport. The sea was calm, unlike my husband, so the dog was enjoying a swim and retrieving sticks. As we were both on the receiving end of the inevitable dog-shakes when he came out we decided to wade in, just calf-deep, throwing the sticks from there. Suddenly, out of nowhere, a strong wave appeared, catching us all unaware and in a split second it all went horribly wrong. The dog couldn't swim against the flow so got swept along towards the shore. My other half shrieked like a girl and jumped to the side of the incoming mutt, while I saw it all too late. I turned my body just as the hairy canine gushed forward. He colliding with my shins, took me out and sent me A over T into the blue aquatic abyss, leaving me flapping about like a feeble flounder. The phone? Well, I'd been taking photos at the time, so that flew out of my hand as I did my surprise double-salco/back flip routine (I hadn't realised I was so talented). The phone hit some rocks with a sickening crunch, then bounced off into its salty grave. Thankfully my dog was fine so I was hoping I could at least salvage some of my own pride by looking a little like Bo Derek emerging from the surf. However, with my sodden, stretched tee-shirt hanging heavy down to my knees, the arse of my shorts drooping like a baby's full nappy, my hair dripping wet sand down my face and the look of Medusa in my eyes as I noticed my husband laughing uncontrollably and taking photos, I more resembled the Sea Devil from Dr. Who instead. My dignity was well and truly as dead as my phone! Grrr, woof! My husband and I have split up since (less of a loss than my phone tbh) so I have no photos of the fateful incident to share (bless him) and my dog is sworn to secrecy; he signed a dew process claws (see what I did there?) I'm now using a $15 Alcatel One Touch bought from Countdown because that's all I can now afford. I'd love to salvage something from the wreckage so winning a Galaxy S6 with any cover would be amazing, but a glacier commuter case would be my choice. Thank you.
So I have this huckery old iphone 1 or 2? can't remember but it's old AF. Anyway one night I've got my PJ's on with the pockets because even PJ's need storage, the pockets however are prone to chuck things out of their own accord at any given time.
One night I had to move the car because narrow driveway, so i thought stuff getting shorts on just go out in my jammies, back it out as usual and park it on the street, awesome, job done, go back inside.
Later on in the night I need to check my alarm so I go hunting for my phone which is nowhere to be found, and then it hits me, so I walk my depressed ass down to where moved the car and low and behold it sits absolutely mashed to all hell on the concrete where It had fallen out of my pocket and my car had laughed as the screams of my phone being run over fell on deaf ears.
While most of you are thinking there is no way it could have survived you're half right, it's effed up beyond belief, HOWEVER it still (kind of) works, but only if you hold it in the landscape position, also certain letters and buttons don't work. Also it's been like this for a year and it's holding out like Rocky Balboa.
If I somehow win this I would like an otterbox defender preferably in amethyst purple because that's how I roll.
Once upon a time I remember letting my friend borrow my phone to make a phone call to his parents to pick him up from my house, so he talked on the phone for 5 mins and I went to the bathroom and I come back and he has this look of guilt on his face, I said what's up? He said don't get mad.. from there I knew something had happened haha, I said what did ya do? He has a history of being a clumsy guy hahaha, so he picked up my phone and showed me a huge crack on it. Me being a calm guy I said it's okay haha as long as it wasn't on purpose LOL, so if I win this phone I would give it to my mother since mother's day is coming up :) for now I am using my brother's phone until something else happens, such as winning a new one ;) get it? :P if I do win which is always a zero chance haha I would like the purple amethyst case. Cheers :)
After spending my entire life savings starting to be self employed at the start of this year I could only afford a Huawei smartphone. Don't get me wrong, its a pretty great phone, but I am a pretty clumsy person. Previously I owned an iPhone 4 which I managed to drop a few times with ni problems at all, but the FIRST time my Huawei dropped roughly 50cm off my desk onto the floor, the screen shattered. I am typing this from my shattered screen currently, because not only does it still technically work until the day shards of glass fall out of the screen and into my fingers, but I cannot afford to fix or replace it. Winning the phone I actually wanted and need for running my small business, coupled with the melon green case which matches my business colour scheme perfectly, would absolutely make my year so much better after it has been off to a very rocky start with lots of setbacks. Love you MA! x
My phone story :( I was cleaning the bathroom & had stupidity put my new Samsung Galaxy S5 on the Basin then pulled the towel off the rail near the Basin it hit my phone and pushed my phone into the running water :( bye bye phone water damaged no warrenty and back to my old brick non smartphone that I am still using :( to broke (student)... to buy a newer phone
Dropped my phone of the top of the school grandstands, through the only gap, onto a rock...
The Black Defender Case looks pretty top :o
You know darn well MightyApe... Fifa 15 happened.
So I started a new job doing media blasting about 3 weeks ago and last week whilst blasting away I noticed my phone had abruptly stopped playing music (my phone being and iPhone 5s which was in a life proof case also), so I went to check my phone to see what was going on when I was shocked to find it wasn't in my pocket, frantically looking around to see where it might be I noticed a black brick tucked in beside an object I had been blasting. When I had got to it I saw it was indeed my phone. The metal blasted case looked like it had absorbed all of the damage at first glance, but I opened the case to find a destroyed iPhone in a still intact case.
I now have no smart phone at the moment and would love to fill that spot with a new galaxy s6 wrapped in a black defender otter box so that this doesn't happen again.
Well .... I rarely talk about this tradgedy ...it has been haunting me for months now...ok lets begin. It was my birthday and my brand spanking new Samsung Galaxy s5 arrived in the post, i opened it set it up and was ready to go! Me and my mates went to a trampoline park to celebrate my bday!! Man was it fun! We mucked around for about 2 hours and came out an realized "shoot wheres my phone??"i went through all the emergency procedures, 1.panic 2. Freakout 3. Call it etc but nothing! I asked the trampoline people if they had found it , and we realized tht it was in my pocket!! It fell out in the foam pit and we located it after hours of searching, it was face down ...... i flipped it over. ................. my god , never in my life have i ever seen so many cracks on one service!! It looked like a stood on poppadom (indian food reference lololol) maaan was a i annoyed it was to damaged for repair and I have had to rock my nokia brick since
So my boss decided to finish work early to take me and the rest of the crew fishing and wake-boarding.
We headed straight to the bosses house, grabbed the boards, beers and fishing equipment. Then shot down to the beach.
The boss backed the boat into the water and we were steadying the boat into the water.
And without realizing my phone being in my pocket, i walked all the way in until the water was above my hips. Fully soaking my phone.
Ohhhhhhhhhhh man i was pissed. So many photos lost. So many good times with it too.
Now i'm phone-less and could really do with an s6 with a black defender case. Not sure if the otterbox is water proof but otters live in water so by that logic this makes it waterproof??
Anyway Waterproof or not i need a new phone.
3 months ago I went to a festival with my partner, got drunk, as you do. Had a huge argument. Woke up in the morning to my partner deciding to dump me. Later I discovered I had dropped my S4 that night and it broke the screen. Fast forward to now and I drop it on the bathroom times which shatters the screen completely. Sad panda or monkey.
Went to get in the car my phone dropped out of my pocket I had just brought a brand new S3 when they were first brought out and as i got in the car the phone slipped out of my pocket. didnt realise reversed the car and heard this huge crunch and lone behold i had ran over my phone. I have since learnt to get continence insurance for the just incase moments but would so love a new phone am sick of my old brick nokia
If i won i would want the Symmetry Case - Melon Pop
One night I thought it'd be a good idea to keep txting while I was standing over the toilet taking a wee, I dropped my phone but managed to whack it out of the way of the toilet bowl, it bounced off the wall and onto the tiles when I picked it up to inspect it I realized the screen was smashed, of course while I was inspecting it I dropped it again and it landed straight into the toilet bowl. And when I first dropped it and managed to whack it out of the way I was still going to the bathroom so I now had a broken screen, toilet water damage AND wee on the walls. Was not a great day. I'm sure any of these cases would have helped.
Otterbox Defender Black would be my choice! :D
Left it on the top of the car. It fell off and went under the rear wheel. I could hear the cracking sounds then I remembered my phone wasn't in my pocket. The feels...
That certainly won't happen again.
I had my phone in my tracksuit pocket without a cover on and I had forgotten to zip up the pocket. I went to get into my car to go to Uni and didn't notice that my phone had slipped out as I went to sit down in the drivers seat. I then put the car in reverse and proceeded to run over my own phone! It was broken beyond repair and I have to get a new one. With a black defender case, the phone may not have slipped out in the first place, but it also may have stood more of a chance against the weight of a mazda 2!
I was running across the road and my phone fell out of my pocket :(
i was feeding the calves helping on the farm and my phone fell out of my pocket. It bounced on the fence and into the calf feeders which were full of milk. my phone was only about two months old at the time. my phone still works now, minus the speaker which is crackly and has rotten milk in the holes :(
Had my s3 in my pocket getting in to the car i didn't have my leg in the car yet and my brother slammed the door on my leg twice and then i got my phone out of my pocket to find out that the screen had broken in the force of the door being slammed on my leg i was so angry at him then a couple of days later i didn't like that cracks on the screen made it hard to see things on my phone so i paid $200 to have a new screen put on then a week after i got my new screen i was picking my clothes up of the ground in the bathroom forgot my phone was in the shorts pocket it fell out and smashed the screen again i was so angry.
I would like a OtterBox Symmetry Case gridlock please
I was walking up the driveway after a long day of work, as my bothers puppy runs towards me and jumps up, my samsung brick fell out of my pocket and destroyed my house and everything along my road :'(
It was March last year, I just received my brand new HTC One M8 on release day, seeing as it wasn't a very popular phone I could not find any cases for it yet. A few days later I bought a tech 21 case for my phone, the company claimed the case to be drop proof, I was showing it off to my friends one day, I dropped it from a height of about 4 feet, the phone flipped straight on to its front and the bottom of the screen cracked.
The case I'd like for the s6 would be OtterBox Commuter Case for Samsung Galaxy S6 - Black
I've had an S1 since they were first released. But 2 kids later it was a bit worse for wear. Ok it was terrible, and couldnt make calls.
Upgraded to a secondhand S3 off of trademe.
But it turns out it was a dud. Seller disappears.
Trademe says too bad. I used ebay for so long I expected good service.
So now I have a very pretty brick, no money, and a growing desire to "drop" said brick very hard. Perhaps off of something tall. It's good to dream.
If I was lucky enough to win, purple case all the way. Ereday
My girlfriend was using it at the loo... yup... early morning start so she was there at 5am in the morning, being sleepy... slipped and dropped... not only did it went into the bowl with you know what in it but it cracked the screen of her Iphone 5 real bad... got it going again but really don't think anyone would want to touch that nor do you want it on her face calling people. So maybe a S6 could be a great replacement! Melon Pop would also be neat! Cheers!
My story might not strike as amazing as the others but Iv had my s3 for along time and have dropped it a billion times and thought nothing of it then I got a job and I started putting it in my front pocket I thought about geting a case but thought lazyaly nahhh sheel be right anyway I didnt have my button done up and within seconds she flewout of my pocket and bounced across the ground not only did it break my back camera I turned it over and my whole screen was wrecked I need a case !!!!!!!! Save me save me !!!!!!
I got home from uni one day and decided that, being the manly man that I am, I could take everything from my car inside in one trip. After instantly regretting it and walking to the front door, I had to fumble for my keys. This caused my phone to slip from the 2 fingers holding it and land on the ground. It might've been fine if it hadn't in a split second landed between a pebble and my shoe. Once I realised, it was too late.
I also drop my s3 enough (thankfully hasn't broken... yet) that I'd need an otter case for an s6. A black defender would be awesome.
I went out about two lunch ago and brought a galaxy s5 for my partner and myself. Very cool phones too. I went to work the following Monday and had to go out and help out with fixing a screen that sorts out rock. At the top it has a lumber breaker which breaks up lumps (hence the name) and down below has the dredded HAMMER MILL which totally destroys anything that enters. In between those is the screen which vibrates and let's the smaller pieces through and the larger go back the system. Well I went up to open the hatch to make sure no big rocks had caught up top and without thinking (at 5am in the morning )leaned over a little to far. My phone dropped in front me eyes and went into the lump breaker, somehow the phone got through (maybe from the rock that had opened the grate a tad more than it should be. I jumped down to the screen saw my phone. I went to grab it and my hi viz vest got hung up on a safety frame just pulling me short of grabbing my phone. All i could do was sadly VERY sadly watch my phone do it final bounce on the screen and fall Into the hammer mill. Yup within seconds little pieces of my phone came out of the lump breaker to roll past me on the screen. 2 times it done this till I got free of the frame and sadly walk away. Yup fully sucked and sucks even more as I am using partners phone to tell you all this while she smirks and giggles over it all. So yes having a s6 would be grand as then I could do the smirking and giggling like a school girl showing off my new phone. Cheers for your time mighty ape and hope you all have a great week.
Dropped my phone in the toilet last year when I went to lift the seat up, wasn't happy to put my hand in to get it out, tried drying it out in the hot water cupboard but was screwed. Didnt really like the thought of touching it afterwards anyway. I just stick to buying cheap phones now.
Melon pop case
My story might not be as sad as some, but it was really sad for me. Well, I had recently got a new phone. It was a week old and I was at Eden Park watching the cricket when I took my phone out to take photos and when realizing that I left something in my bag, I placed my phone on my lap and bent over to go through my bag. The Phone fell off my lap and hit the hard concrete floor of the stand. I picked it up to check if it was okay and it had a giant crack. When I turned it on and tried to unlock my phone the touch screen wasn't working. the bad thing was that i wasn't supposed to take my phone in the first place and i spent the rest of the cricket game worrying about what was going to happen when i told my dad i had broke it.
It was a really good day :) things started off good as usual, working at a pet store and starting at 7am made it okay because i could cuddle all the animals before people came in, on this particular day a puppy needed a bath because of hygienic reasons. I had my phone in my back pocket and when kneeling down to grab her my phone jumped out of my pocket and face down on the floor and cracked, if that wasnt bad enough little miss puppy decided to have a little gnaw and kick with my phone and well, it died. And so did everything on it :( i have never broken a phone in my life and my first is hopefully the last, but if not, the worst :(
I would also like the symmetric melon pop case..
My experience left me with a love for otterbox like no other.
I used to have a Samsung Galaxy S2 with an otterbox case and it was fantastic. I had dropped it a couple of times and no big deal. One day I wondered what it would be like without it as they can be quite clunky. So being curious I took it out of the case and gave it a test.
I'll admit i loved having it out of the case, it felt so slick and smooth, no more clunk. Then I went out and was driving around, had my phone on my lap and fully forgot about it. I had forgotten I even took the case off and when I went to get out, my phone flew off my lap. There is a distinct moment when you know you've done something monumentally silly. This came as I head my phone crash onto the concrete.
I just stopped and looked at it face down for what felt like eternity. I picked it up and the screen was shattered. I've never felt so silly. The case I had had a slight lift so if it was dropped on the screen it wouldn't smash. If only I had left the case on.
Now I always buy otterbox when I am getting a phone case and I've never smashed another screen. Otterbox are the best cases and i'd love a new phone with a brand new otterbox case!
If I win I would love the casual blue commuter case! :)
It was about 11:00pm at night when me and my mate decided to go long boarding down this crazy steep hill. Eventually we talk ourself into doing it, so I decide to go first. I went down the hill picking up some good speed but started to go faster and faster, for a split moment I thought I got this, then all of a sudden just before I hit the bottom of the hill I hit a man hole at full speed. I tried to stabilize the board but failed epically. Got thrown off the board and hit the tar at full speed, as soon as I hit the tar I stood straight back up and started to run after my Galaxy S3 that's skidding and hopping across the road. Phone is absolutely wrecked, but definitely a quick lesson. Don't long board with your phone in your pocket ;)
I was late for the bus so I had to run down our travel drive just as i reached the road i slipped onto the tarseal with my phone in my hand. Shattered my iPhone screen. I had only bought the phone a week before I was so heartbroken i didnt care about the gash in my hand i was so worried about my phone. I think i need to change to a Galaxy S6 with a blue ottorbox, this might give me a bit more luck . Thanks Mighty Ape!
A few years ago whilst at the Hamilton V8s, I had to use the toilet early on the Saturday morning before the crowds and the racing started, which in this case meant using a portaloo.
Anyway, after I had "finished" using the toilet, I stood up and whilst turning around lifted my jeans up around my waist. As this happened, My phone proceeded to fall out of my pocket, and arc towards the toilet. As I reached out for the phone it landed on the trapdoor in the bottom of the toilet bowl, the trap opened and the phone landed in the tank below with a faint "plop". Unfortunately my hand and arm entered the toilet a few milliseconds afterwards due to the momentum carrying them towards the toilet. I managed to grab my phone almost immediately from the tank after having my arm submerged nearly to the elbow in the portaloo's tank.
Unfortunately the phone was waterlogged and ruined, but worse still was the fact that I had to spend the next 20 minutes scrubbing my arm and hand to clean off all the "debris" that had become stuck to it whilst submerged in the portaloo.
All day I had to put up with jokes like: "your phones a bit stink aye" or "Did you get all your crap off your phone?"
An Otterbox symmetry case on an S6 would go a long way to helping me forget this tragic moment. :-)
love the OtterBox Defender Case in Purple and wish I had had 1 on my note2 the day I was in the The Hundertwasser Toilets in Kawakawa.
I had finished doing my bussness but still sitting on the toilet and taking photos ... no not selfies lol.. of the tiles in toilet when I dropped my note2 on the hard tiled floor. It 1st landed on its corner then bounced and flipped over onto the screen .. after this the ph sure looked like the crazy tiles in the toilets. Apart from screen being cracked and crazed the phone does not function well, must have jolted something as it has a mind of its own switching apps or windows I have open to something else.
As one usually does after a successful game of rugby, we headed back into the club rooms for a couple of celebratory Waikato draughts before heading back to one of the mates house to continue the festivities. Needless to say, minor carnage ensued as the dozen of Waikatos promptly disappeared before our eyes and mouths. And as any over 18 rum enthusiast would know, when the GOAT (greatest of all time) rum, Appletons, leaves that top shelf, it never returns (unless you are a collector of empty bottles). Down the hatch goes a couple of rum and cokes. And in turn comes the increasingly long wait for the bathroom. But as any lad (and possible lass) knows, who needs the toilet when there is a perfectly good bush outside. So off I go to use the bush, iPhone in hand to check snapchat while I drain the main vein. Not two seconds after I finish checking the unnecessarily long snapchat story of a lame party my mate is at (mate, I get it. You're at a party with a strobe light and a wannabe dj. Calm down) I hear a bottle smash next to my foot. I turn around just as another brown bomber comes launching over. Smashing into my phone. And before I knew it my phone was gone, destroyed into pieces by a bottle of double brown. Death by double brown. It is something I would expect on my tombstone, but not for the death of my beloved 4s. I would later find out that the bottle came from the neighbours house,who decided it was a good idea to practice their bottle throw for the 2016 Olympics.
All in all. All I ask for is a better phone, and any one of those otter cases to protect from flying missles of destruction in the form of the double brown bottles.
My wife and I were having a play fight when my phone began to ring, she picked up my phone and threw it to me demanding I answer it so she could "get me back". I caught it and threw it back at her and told her no she should answer.... We went back and forth as the phone continued to ring, she threw it at me and ran to the bathroom and tried to close the door. Unfortunately I beat her before the door closed and threw my phone at her, she didn't see the phone coming and with a loud splash it landed in the toilet bowl :'( I don't think even a purple amethyst otter box would save it.
A friend and I were in a small fishing boat in the Manawatu a few years back. As we went over a small wave just off the shore, my phone fell out of my pocket, hit the railing of the boat and went into the salt water. His response was "Yeah, you can forget about THAT phone" but i was so determined i actually paid a couple of guys who were nearby and wearing boots to wade in and find the phone. I guess the phone was submerged for 30 min or so, but they did find it. I washed it with freshwater, then took to to multiple repair places. The final verdict was just what my friend had expected. Toasted, i needed a new phone. I never understood why it took me so long to concede defeat and get a new phone... I am yet to get a new phone bar a couple of hand me downs :(
So this is a story all about how my Samsung S3 broke right down! I was at a friends bonfire/firework/bbq night and during the fireworks some of the long shooting fireworks fell and was shooting towards us - don't worry, no one was hurt except my phone of course! Everyone got up to run and my phone ended up falling out of my pocket whilst running away face down for the first time... on concrete... worst part is I couldn't even save my photos, S3 now rests in his box in my draw, just can't depart from it yet!
Moral of the story: Secure your fireworks and secure your Samsung!!
Should I be fortunate to win, I would love an Otterbox Commuter Case - Casual Blue - thanks a lot.
LG, Life's Good when you reveal the non-damaged screen to you and your friends while they ask the phone if it's alright, you're there on the ground with a bit of pain from tripping over a step on the staircase. Perhaps I shouldn't have tried to secretly take photos of them while eating.
It was just like any other day... The sky was blue and the sun shone brightly on the field as I walked through school. But suddenly, something unexpected happened. As I ascended the familiar steps to the library while on my faulty Samsung Galaxy S4, the phone slipped out of my fingers forcing me to juggle. Unfortunately, I had not joined a circus for the required skills to save it and it fell to the cold, hard surface below. However, my S4 only received a few chips and scratches and I wouldnt have minded if it broke because it was faulty and driving me insane anyway. But if I had a otterbox commuter case casual blue, it would definitely have prolonged the life of my cursed phone. Even before the incident it would randomly crash and reboot in a loop. Makes me wanna cryyyy :'(
It all started as a normal Sunday Night, then I got a phone call at 1am from my girlfriend, that they were going to do her double transplant, and that we had to get on the next available flight to Auckland from Christchurch.
So we had to pack for a four month trip to Auckland, and we got to the airport at 5am, to arrive in Auckland at 7am, We were flying into a tropical cyclone, and they weren't sure if we would be able to land.
Luckily we did land in Auckland, after a day of testing to ensure the organs would be a good match, my partner went into surgery at 11pm.
After this I had been up for over 15 hours, and I was catching a taxi to my accommodation with 2 suit cases and 2 backpacks.
I had to look on my phone, for the address and whilst doing this I dropped my phone and smashed the screen.
Forgot to add OtterBox Symmetry Case for Samsung Galaxy S6 - Glacier
My mum was stressed out because of me in the dark on my own because dad was late picking me up after open day, she was on the phone to the school to see if I was okay, then she was so stressed and worried that she knocked it off the bench after she talked to the school, there is now big cracks through the screen.. all because of me.. I really need this phone to give to her as a mothers day gift :) and I will have any case for her if I win :)
I needed an Otterbox case for my phone - and frankly, I also needed a phone to go in it - when I was walking into work one morning and I dropped my phone on the concrete outside the entrance.
IT'S OK GUYS! NOTHING HAPPENED - seriously, a slight, barely visible dent and my phone was otherwise unaffected. Right after picking up my phone, the cleaner who was also just walking inside happened to see my clumsy moment and called out to me "You know your phone is old when you drop it on concrete and it doesn't break!".
Yep. Thanks cleaning lady. Way to bring it home.
So I need that phone... and as long as I have it, I'll never remove it from the awesome Otterbox case, just in case.
PS - Otterbox Commuter Black looks awesome and would probably be my first choice. Or the Defender - Glacier. Let's face it, any of their cases on an S6 would be gratefully received (and better than a crap phone with no case)...
;)
It was moving day December last year - all of my possessions were loaded into boxes and moved to my new house with only my flatscreen television left - this was one of my prized possessions, but being a 50 inch tv (which took months to pay off!) I was understandably worried that the screen would get cracked, as I have for the past couple of moves. My mother, my mate and I loaded it into the back of the car upright and smothered it in blankets and duvets so there was padding on all sides, and I even sat in the back seat with it uncomfortably cradling it so as to not let it bend or flex, and risk cracking my beauty's screen.
The journey across town was treacherous, filled with potholes and speedbumps (why did I move to the other side of the city!?), and with each knock I squeezed my eyes shut and whispered a silent prayer to any God who was listening. We pill up at my new residence and I hastily remove the padding to check on the television; it all seemed OK so far. With a lot of gentle but firm movements we managed to see-saw it out of the back seat and up two flights of stairs - gingerly taking one step at a time and pausing to de-sweat our palms. At the top floor I risked a sigh of relief, and we popped the television onto a blanket on the floor and gradually slid it upright into the lounge and placed it in its final resting place, safe and sound. I gave it a test and everything was perfect - I said to my movers to pop over to the bakery where I would shout them lunch for their valiant efforts, and that I would meet them there right after I returned the trailer we had used to move the rest of my things.
I pop into the car and we make our way to the service station; I'm jittery with stress and relief, and as we get up I have totally forgotten about my iPhone 5S teetering gingerly on the edge of my pocket, half-way in, half-way out. I'm tired and giddy and ready to relax, and in my haste to get out of the car, the jolt of my feet onto the ground moved my phone over the precipice of my pocket and into the open air. There was no slow motion like you see in the movies - I barely had time to whimper as my phone crashed down on the pavement, the bottom left corner receiving the brunt of the impact. I stare at my phone, which is face-down, for several moments, and I distinctly remember hoping stronger than I ever have in my life that it had survived the fall without damage. I reach down and pluck it from the ground and slowly turn it over... but it was a massacre. About the only part left unscathed was the Home button. If I squinted I could make out what was behind the cracks, but it was done for - and then the irony hit me. I was so worried about my television screen cracking on that one journey a year, I had totally forgot about my phone, and I paid for it.
If I were to win, I would love the "Melon Pop" coloured Otterbox case - I won't be caught without protection again, that's for sure!
I don't really have a tragic story of how i was skydiving and my phone fell out of my pocket, hit a flock of seagulls and landed in the ocean. no my dog just decided to use it as a chew toy.... :/ so im now stuck with a second hand iphone 4s that i got from my sister (im not an iphone person), that runs out of battery in like 6 hours..... it definitely time for an upgrade
If i won if love either a Symmetry or Commuter Glacier case
Eek which time! One time I had my phone on a lanyard, I thought I would be nice and water some of mums plants. I was talking to mum and she pointed at my chest, i looked down and my ph was sitting in the bowl of water I was holding, I wanted to cry! Then when I got a new phone it slipped out of my hand and fell on the concrete, I think it would have been alright if it hadn't of landed face down on the only loose stone! It wasn't even 48hrs old lol
it was just a regular day at work, on my afternoon break. i was on my phone checking emails, then all of a sudden, "No sim. Emergency calls only".
Flashback to 4 days before. I felt a text come through so I got it out of my pocket, where thanks to my forever-sweaty hands, slipped right out. 3 bounces before it stopped face down on the cold hard concrete. "Just a scratch on the screen" I thought, but boy was I wrong.
The evening of the "No sim" day, I was checking through the receipts. I was hoping it was under warranty so I could make it seem like the phone was faulty. I quickly checked the date, and with a depressing attempt at a laugh, saw that it was out of warranty by 2 days. Boy, could things not get any worse?
Oh but they did. Two weeks afterwards I was sitting at university, awaiting a call on a $20 temporary phone for the repair service to tell me the price to repair my phone. After the teller had finished speaking to me, I had a sinking feeling. Like seeing your pet cat dead on the road as a 7 year old boy. Due of the drop, the motherboard was damaged and unrepairable. I decided to get the phone sent back to me.
So far it has been 3 months making do with my $20 not-so-temporary phone until I can afford a new mid-range phone. My broken phone has been put to use with its soul purpose as a Facebook messenger. I long for the days that I can receive a text from an actual smartphone again, with a gridlock symmetry case by OtterBox protecting it.
Eek which time! One time I had my phone on a lanyard, I thought I would be nice and water some of mums plants. I was talking to mum and she pointed at my chest, i looked down and my ph was sitting in the bowl of water I was holding, I wanted to cry! Then when I got a new phone it slipped out of my hand and fell on the concrete, I think it would have been alright if it hadn't of landed face down on the only loose stone! It wasn't even 48hrs old lol
The purple 1 looks cool
My sad story is that I've never accidentally dropped my phone so I can't enter this competition.
Riding on a motorbike to go home in the evening with my brother cruising behind me on his. Get home and realize my phone is gone and say something to him "oh yes I thought something fell off, I was thinking I should have stopped to see what it was in case it was important like ur wallet or a piece of your bike" yes. It was important.
I have had my windows phone ativ s samsung for a while now. It's kinda like an s3.
Well it all happened on a clear night, I had gone for a long run cause I needed to win a step challenge I was having with a friend on our fit bit App.
So as a was rounding the corner to get home. I check my steps and I had done it. Beat them by a comfy 1000 steps. And my phone in my jacket pocket had the head phones in and I had been listening to music.
Well I started dancing to celebrate and next thing I know my headphone cable catches on my arm and pulls tight. My phone then Flys out of my pocket and heads straight towards to concrete and smashes the whole screen. Still works but its not very clear to see. At least I won the step challenge :).
Would love the symmetry glacier case.
Washed my old Lg & broke the screen on my sony by overloading my backpack,derp... Maybe an s6 in an OtterBox Gridlock will survive.
(my story may not be as poetic as others have been)
My story starts out like a lot of phone drop stories do. With drinking.
Myself and my best friend/flatmate were sitting on our front step, quite drunk with more to come. I had a cigarette in my left hand, my phone in my right.
Being a socially awkward sort of character, my friend was helping me compose messages to a lovely lady I was hoping to date.
We all know how poorly one writes text messages when inebriated.
After watching me struggle to correctly type what shouldn't have been a difficult word, my friend got frustrated and she snatched my phone from my hand saying she would type for me.
I protested, but she would not return my phone.
Eventually, after continuing to plead for my phone back, I moved to snatch it back. She quickly whipped it out of my grasp with her left hand.
A 'thunk' sound comes from the garden.
She froze, staring at the garden next to the steps.
She slowly turned to me, eyes wide, mouth slightly open.
I said "Can I have my phone back now?"
She continued to stare at me.
"... Where is my phone?"
I noticed her left hand was empty.
"... seriously, where is my phone?"
She looks over her shoulder at the garden.
"What the hell happened to my phone?"
"...I -"
I stand up and look over into the garden, but can see nothing.
She looks at me again.
"oh my god, I'm sorry"
I search the garden thoroughly, but find nothing. There is only one last place to check...
The stormwater drain where all the downpipes from the house run to has a small gap in the grill that sits over top of it.
I get on my hands and knees in the dirt and pry off the cover. Reaching into the drain, I find that it makes a sharp turn 1 foot below the ground. I feel around with my hand until I feel something. The feeling of dread I had turned to one of elation as i pull something out of the drain.
In my hand is the battery cover from my phone.
My heart sinks again and we call it a night.
The next morning, I am standing in the garden once again, this time with makeshift implements for exploring the drain. With a bent coat hanger, i once again delve into the drain.
After 15 minutes, I feel the coat hanger brush against something. Very carefully, I manoeuvre the item back up the drain and eventually find myself holding... the battery.
Upon impact, the case has come off and the battery has released itself from the confines of my phone.
I delve back into the drain for another 15 minutes, but to no avail.
I give up on fishing around the drain and go to the garage. I return to the garden brandishing my new weapon of choice.
A shovel.
Over the next 30 minutes, I dig out the entire garden to expose the drain.
I then proceed to attempt to pry apart the joins in the drain piping with no success. I contemplate cutting out the section of drain that I have exposed to allow me to reach further into the pipe.
It was at that moment that it started to rain.
I was defeated.
I said goodbye to my phone and my contacts.
The next day I solemnly walked into the vodafone store to replace my lost simcard and bought the cheapest handset I could find.
That was the day a small part of me died...
(the above story is absolutely true. I had a huge amount of fun trying to over dramatize the language, but it is a 100% true story. I eventually replaced that cheap handset with a Galaxy S1 which has faithfully served me till this day, but it is dying a painful, albeit natural death right now.)
Incidentally, I quite like the Defender Case in Black =)
Cheers mighty Ape. I'm looking forward to Project Cars arriving next week as well =)
Normally I don't believe these types of stories, until it happened to me...
I was celebrating my last days in Samoa before heading off to university in the slightly different climate but way better internet service of Hawaii. Some mates of mine invested in a couple cases of Vailima beer and a bottle of Jose Cuervo Tequila, and we drank like we were at a game of thrones wedding, you know, before the s$%t hits the fan.
Around the time the tequila dripped it's last drop, something that had only been witnessed in beer commercials happened. A bus-load of Miss South Pacific contestants pulled up to the beach and got out.
It was beyond surreal and we couldn't believe what luck the gods had blessed us with. The ladies joined us and were more than happy to mingle with my jolly crew of drunken misfits.
I found myself engaged in a deep conversation with one of the most beautiful woman I had ever met. But there were two problems, 1) I was way too drunk for logical thinking, and 2) the tequila for some reason, did not want to stay in it's new home.
It didn't take long for me to realize what a better course of action would've been , but it took long enough for it to be too late.
While looking down at the mess that I had projected onto the sand like some overpriced modern art piece, no more than a meter away from the former Miss South Pacific. I noticed that just below the surface I could see the outline of my Nokia 3210.
Quick acting, but again, lacking logic and reasoning, I reached in and grabbed said phone, rushed to the ocean and dove in, phone and all, washing us both in the waves. Again realizing my error too late to correct the course... Or was it?
After getting out of the water, I took apart the phone patted the battery and pieces with a towel and let them dry in the sun, by the time we left the beach the phone was working and I had a cautionary tale of moderation to tell my future children, which could have been with a Miss South Pacific winner, had I learnt that lesson earlier.
Flash forward 15 years and My iphone 5's home key is stuck, the screen shows more crack than a plumber and there are rock songs that last longer than the battery... They don't make em like they used to.
Maybe if I had a Galaxy S6 with a sexy Glazier themed Otterbox Commuter Case I could at least have a phone that could handle a beating like they used to.
I don't go out, why would I when I have my computer and pizza delivered to my door. However it was a workmates birthday and I got dragged out to party with them, I didn't drink as I can't stand the taste of alcohol but I had a good time as any sober person would.
Now here comes the sad part, we were in a taxi back to one of my workmates home as we pulled outside, everyone got out with me following behind but the zip on my boot didn't seem to want me leave, so it caught on the door as I stepped out, tripping over the gutter and on to the rough concrete. My hands were out in front of me protecting my face like anyone would do but I didn't realise my phone was in my hand and crack went the screen.
Now as a poor student, I am using a phone with such a bad screen, it takes ages to even send a text, I wish I had a case such as the OtterBox Defender Case in Purple Amethyst to keep my phone safe.
oh so many phones dropped its hard to decide where to start
one day i was at a friends place helping him out with his gardens and putting in a vege patch spent the day digging the garden and preping it for veges and yes we had a few beers and by the end of the day i was wondering why my phone had been so quiet all day so i checked my pockets and to my disappointment it was not there i was soo angry so i said to my mate i had lost my phone and naturally he laughs at me and said it woud probable be by the garage so we go check nope no phone and it dawns on me check the garden since thats where i have spent most of the day so we check the garden and cant see it anywhere and the more we check the more angry i am getting because i had only had the phone a few weeks so being the smart bugger my friend was he laughed some more and said knowing my luck we probable dug it into the garden or buried it under a plant and never noticed so i got him to call my ph with no luck so i admit defeat as we were walking back to the house he notices something in the vege patch we had put lettuce in that was odd (i dont even know to this day how he spotted it but he did ) and to our amazement there was my phone partially sticking out from under a lettuce plant in the compost soaked cause we watered the plants as you do so i grab it pull it out of the ground and check to see if it will turn on ( not too sure y i thought it would tho lol) and as one would expect it didnt go so i pulled the battery out and tried the drying it all in rice trick tested it and still not going and swore and cursed alot because the day before i had been looking at cases for my phone and decided they were all ugly and not what i wanted and didnt buy one and so murphys law bites me in the butt ... but if i had the otterbox defender case i would still have the phone to this day it would still be working and i wouldnt be getting grief off my friends about planting my phone to see if it would grow
I was in a rush to get to laser tag where all of my friends were waiting but by the time I had gotten there, they had already played a game :( I was poor anyway and that saved me $12. They had rented out a locker and told me to put my stuff in it too, even though it was full of everyone's crap.
Without thinking, I shoved my phone and wallet inside by the door hinges and closed the door. The door wouldn't close so I slammed it a few times and then realised that my phone was in the way. So I moved my phone, door closed, problem solved.
Two games later, I get my stuff and we head over to a bar for a few drinks. On the way there, I checked my phone for any messages. It was dark so I didn't see the damage but I noticed this hair-like thing on the screen, I go to wipe it off - wouldn't come off. I was like whaaaaat.. I finally got into the light and saw a screw-shaped indent at the base of my phone, just below the home button and the go back key with damage to the frame. I was devastated. I almost cried.
I'm just glad a had a screen protector on, that didn't do much for the screen itself, but kept all of the pieces intact so that it was still usable although it was hella annoying because of the new air bubbles >:/
It works ok, but my snapchat art skills are ruined by the little cracks zzz..
Maybe that swanky black defender Otterbox case will protect my phone from my stupidity..
So I was going overseas and me and my girlfriend decided only one of us needs a phone to use on our trip. So we had our close friends come check out our house from time to time, And so we thought it would be a good idea to put my iphone 5 in our oven ( Obviously who the hell looks in an oven, right? )
So my friends call us up on the trip and said something was wrong with our oven, making weird noises as they tried to use it.
When we got back my phone looked like a burnt brownie completely shattered.
OtterBox Symmetry Case for Samsung Galaxy S6 - Gridlock
It was New Years Eve of 2014 and it was a beautiful day. We went over to my aunt's place to spend New Years with them as she loves the company of our almost 2 years old daughter and our other younger 4 month old daughter.
My auntie got ready for the New Years Eve Church Service and I thought she would love it if we went with her. My wife stayed with our younger daughter as it was late and she was asleep so off we went. The church is just a few meters from her house so we walked over. It was a nice service and just a few minutes into the New Year my daughter decided its time to get daddy's attention and so I decided for the best interest of everyone there its time for us to head home.
While walking I decided to use the light on my phone to light our way home. While we joyfully strolled on home, the weather had other ideas. It started to rain and I mean really rain down on us and I just picked her up and made it to the house. I thought the case would have helped cushion the blow when my phone fell out of my hand and when we arrive to the house I checked it and it was a sad site to behold. To make matters worse it was my Christmas Gift the year before from my wife and I know if it had the Otterbox cover, it would still be nice and new and not looking like it was competing in Olympic diving.
My wife's favorite color is turquoise blue and the Defender Casual Blue is close enough to it.
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As always with every good story, it started with a girl, and ended in misery.
The year was 2014 and the setting was a balcony overlooking the beautiful cityscape jungle of Auckland. There was music and merry-making, good food and even better company, as the sun fell beyond the horizon and the stories started to emerge, there was one character determined to upset the balance of this seemingly faultless night.
She had hair as black as night and a heart even darker, she was the lover of our hero in this story, a trickster who fooled our young knight into a false sense of security with baking of tasty treats and warmth at night. But she had alternate intentions.
Some say it was 'an act of fate' or the 'misfortune of too much mead' but our hero knows differently.
Whilst recounting one of his many brave adventures to his admirers and friends, he lent back on his throne with his magic device in his hand. As if the temptress saw this moment of vulnerability, she struck! With lighting speed of a two headed viper.
Launching to destabilize his otherwise impeccable balance on his leaning throne, she cast him into an uncontrollable descent down towards the cold unforgiving ground, presumably in an effort to remove him from his throne, a metaphor for her ultimate goal.
As he fell, the group gasped in despair as they could not make it in time to save their hero, the knight struck the ground and his magic device flung from his hands as he tried to stop himself from the defeat of the inevitable.
All that can be said is his magic device was never the same, cracks appeared as the life force slowly drained from it, leaving the knight powerless against his enemies and the witch laughing in triumph.
It is sung in a tale of hope, visioned by the druid of the forest than one day, a savior will emerge in the form of a mighty ape, to deliver the knight a new magic device, so that the balance of the world can be restored to peace and harmony. It is said this mystical creature will imbibe upon the prince an item like none ever seen before and that it will be hardneed against future threats with a black defender steed to aid it's journeys and battles.
Think of the wonders that could be done if this prophecy was fulfilled.
...easy simple story....got a bit happy on the social lube....tried to do something my body is not in the bounds of gravity acceptable for ...... phone flew out of pocket...smash
Otter defender in Glacier is the best!
My story is about my iphone 4, RIP. It was one dark, cold, wet and windy night, I was rushing home on my skateboard to beat the rain before it started, whilst pushing as fast as i could my wheel jammed between the ground and a pebble and i came off of my board, after a few grazes and bruises I stood up and hopped back on my board, a couple of minutes later i realized that my music wasn't playing so i checked my pockets and found that my phone wasn't there, i rushed back to where i had fallen off and found that my iphone 4 now had missing chucks from its screen. The phone still turned on but the entire screen was shattered and the lock button didn't work, and after i found the phone it started to pour down with rain, leaving me with a broken phone, a wet skateboard and a long walk home in the rain.
I have been using my ex's grandmothers old telecom phone ever since.
My story is about my iphone 4, RIP. It was one dark, cold, wet and windy night, I was rushing home on my skateboard to beat the rain before it started, whilst pushing as fast as i could my wheel jammed between the ground and a pebble and i came off of my board, after a few grazes and bruises I stood up and hopped back on my board, a couple of minutes later i realized that my music wasn't playing so i checked my pockets and found that my phone wasn't there, i rushed back to where i had fallen off and found that my iphone 4 now had missing chucks from its screen. The phone still turned on but the entire screen was shattered and the lock button didn't work, and after i found the phone it started to pour down with rain, leaving me with a broken phone, a wet skateboard and a long walk home in the rain.
I have been using my ex's grandmothers old telecom phone ever since. Otterbox defender case is the one for me please :)
Currently have a almost brand new iPhone 5 with cracked screen and bits loose inside because It fell out of my pocket when riding my bike late at night didn't know it was broken till I went to unlock it and all i could see was cracks all across the screen, struggling to read texts, read Facebook posts etc and can't afford to get it fixed so have to deal with what o have
My one is nice, quick and simple. So my sister and I had both just got brand new phones (you know when flip tops were super cool and touch screen was like nooooo way!). So we were doing some chores around home, and mum always said, dont take your phones into the pool area (fenced off backyard pool). And me being me (way too much sweg @ 14 (sooo long ago)) was like, nahhhh it'll be fine. So I am going to change the filter on the pool (yeah real easy job) except the pool is kinda green still (like cant see the bottom green). And I go to change the filter and there be Mr Wasp. Now I'm not too fond of wasps, so I flick around real quick, and Mr Phone goes bye bye into the depths of the green pool. Me being in shock like "duhhhhh what happened" sat there for a little bit like "NOOOOOOO NEW PHONE!"... So as it sunk to the bottom I'm going full retard sitting there. Then it clicks, dive into said green pool to retrieve le phone. So off with the good clothes and into the pool. Now it being green, phone = invisible (yeah hax right!). So I'm at the bottom of the green pool and phone is drowning. I come up for air, mum's wondering why on earth I'm in the semi green pool, and I'm hiding this phone fact... So I eventually find it, take out the battery etc and chuck it in some rice and into the hot water cupboard (mum still doesnt know). Then I take it out the next day, battery in, still no go... Realize I'm in the deep end... So at 14 I rustle up my pocket money and after school buy le new phone so that mum doesn't notice. Situation averted, but very poor 14 year old haha.
The black defender would be awesome!
~bvvt-bvvt ... bvvt-bvvt ... SMASH~
Meet Clunk, my Samsung model GT-S5511T. Clunk has a limp in his vibratory mechanism and often trips over the edge of my desk while he is trying to get my attention. This leads to a lot of clumsy falls and some light scars here and there
I’d like tell you a tale of how Clunk acquired his most precious scar, his medal of honor so to speak. This particular story is also probably where he gets his limp from. It is not tale of clumsiness, but one of bravery.
Clunk is also a hero; Clunk saved my life.
It was a cool and windless night. The moon hung solemn in the evening sky, illuminating my surroundings. As I dragged myself back from a tiresome day at Tech I was lost in my thoughts of what to cook for dinner that night, Clunk quietly keeping me company in my breast pocket.
What came next abruptly shattered my quiet reality.
I only just saw it out of the corner of my eye; a glint of icy cold steel partnered with a barely audible 'click'. I turned to see what had caught my attention only to be met with a figure outfitted in a stark-white full length hooded coat in mid-leap, his left arm outstretched, the blade protruding from his sleeve trained on my chest with deadly accuracy. I had no time to react as the blade plunged into my soft flesh, pushing through brittle ribs and rupturing my beating heart - or at least it would have if it weren't for my dear companion Clunk risking his own existence to redirect the attack.
The blade must have missed me by nanometers as it tore an awesome gash in my favourite shirt. The would-be assassin, thrown off balance by Clunks' split-second valiant deflection, tripped over his own feet and hurtled over the edge of the bank behind me into the Waikato River.
I'll never know why I was targeted, but I will never forget dear Clunks' bravery.
Clunk is 4 years old this year (68 in phone years), and he is seriously contemplating retirement but he needs your help to hook a poor student up with a strong new smartphone to keep me safe from future assassination attempts!
I don’t have a device capable of running Instagram, so I uploaded Clunks’ favourite scar to imgur (hope that’s okay!). Link: http://i.imgur.com/eyFu4np.jpg
If I win I’d like OtterBox Symmetry Glacier please!
I dropped my phone.
it's screen smashed
I cried
For the rest off the day :(.......
I was fishing off a mates boat in the Marlborough Sounds, I was talking on my Samsung S5 at the time, I hooked a big fish and dropped my phone overboard.
I can't afford a new one yet so now I'm back to the old push button dumbphone and missing my s5 and it's features.
I got the fish to the surface and it was the biggest kingfish I've ever seen, it snapped my line so i lost the fish and my phone....
So there was me almost in tears...
Ack - smarts to think about it even now. I was with my girlfriend and a bunch of other language teachers and we had taken a bunch of students on a day trip to Rangitoto. We made it to the summit and for some stupid reason, I decided to stand on the narrow railing of the observation deck that hangs over the main crater - facing in - to take a photo on a phone (Galaxy S3). I took one pic and then just before I could take another, I was aware that I was over balancing. I panicked a little and overcompensated, tried to correct and then overbalanced again, and then fell backwards off the rail into the crater. I heard screams as I went and then hit a whole lot of tree branches and trunks (!) before finally landing on my ass. I was just a little way down into the crater but it still would have been disastrous without trees breaking my fall. I was stunned, and had a sore lower spine that ached four at least a month, but I scooted back up the side of the crater and surprised everyone by appearing back on the platform. There were tears and excitement from other teachers (who were just SURE I had killed myself), but my girlfriend was laughing so hard she was having trouble breathing. Then she said, "Hey numb nuts - where's the phone?" I realised that I was still gripping it, but it had taken a couple of fatal blows in the fall - cracked screen, blank screen. Crap. If only it had been in an Otterbox. I wouldn't have had to buy a new one. AND get a more caring girlfriend. I would like the black commuter case if I won. And a phone number of a nice girl.
The date was december 27th, 2013 it had been a great year with my much loved motorolla but it was about due time that i traded in for something newer, sleeker, something with more memory than 4gb! So thinking i could grab a boxing day deal i went down to my nearest vodafone to purchase something new.
After transfering over my contacts to a new samsung S3 i jumped for joy, "All sorted, would you like a case?" the vodafone lady said but before i could reply another customer walks in and quickly grabs her attention (impatient much), he wanted a durable case so that his kids couldnt damage his phone. As she talked to him about the case and the functions it could do i listened considering whether i needed one too, wow, water proof, drop proof, driving over it in a truck proof this thing was amazing. The impatient man left the store with a new case and the lady turned to me and offered me one. How could i resist? Well i did pretty easily. " Nah, im allright aye, im pretty good at not dropping my phone..." i had said.
Two days later sitting in the sun at work through my lunch break, i show of my brand new phone to my co workers, "pretty cool huh?" Ellicting many eye raises and "yeah pretty cool" comments, one apple lover said "you should have got a case for that samsungs crack easily" "haha, yeah whatever" i replied, all in a moments flash i drop it from 20cm from the ground straight on the face, taking a cautious glance at my coworkers i gingerly pick up my samsung, thinking how much smack i been talking. Cracked from top to bottom but still functional. Laughs came from all directions, "WHY!!!" I screamed melodramitcally.
Yeah thats the story of how i broke my phone anti climactic sure but i saw the size of the other comments and i thought i should contribute too :) hope it was enjoyable as much as it was reliving that moment of my life, nearly two years with the still cracked phone now and have not dropped it since. Funny that.
After a long, horrible day, I was waiting for my dinner to cook. As I stood up with my amazing Samsung Galaxy S4 it dropped. Dropped onto the carpet *Phew*, it then took a turn for the worst. The damn phone bounced into the leg of the couch. A solid wood leg, and cracked :'(
Ended up getting a note 4, but I'd love to go back to the S series.
Heading to my sisters house I turned up the music AC/DC rocking in my new headphone beanie. I walked into the sunroof said hello to the dog and opened the door as I walked inside the dog jumps up and gets her leg caught in the headphone cord and pulls my month old phone out of my pocket. Thinking sweet the cord will save it as it has a couple of times before I didn't try to catch it. Imagine my horror as it hits the tiled floor and I remember new headphones I brought them because they have a longer cord. It was an hour before I could even look at the phone screen shattered ahhhhhhh.
dropped me phone down the toilet while doing housework and cant afford another so im in the crapper #mightyape
Hi there, We play a mobile game called Ingress this game requires you to get out and about to capture portals and gather points and badges. On a dark night we were walking thru Kell Park in Albany hacking portals happily. I was looking at phone and not where I was going and splat I walked into a park bench smashed my knee and swearing profusely I realized my phone had flown out of hand and slide across the concrete. Hobberling over I picked it up to find the screen completely smashed and unreadable thus ending any use of my phone until I can afford a replacement. My knee however was very bruised and painful for a couple of months.
In attempts to stay fit and healthy and fulfill a passion I spend a lot of time of a rowing machine. As unique being of today I have a certain preference of music. Most other beings do not have the same feelings about my preferences so I decided to listen through headphones. Being on a rowing machine I couldn't put my phone in my pocket or in a arm band so I come up with the ingenious idea to put it in a ziplock bag and tuck it in the back of my rowsuit. Little to my knowledge the sweat produced from my bouts of exercise would drip down the earphone cords, through the tiny opening in the bag and on/in the phone. My phone gradually began showing symptoms of illness over the following weeks. One day it decided to stop the screen would not rotate so I naturally thought if I rotate with phone with a bit more vigor it would correct itself. This is when the phone slipped from my hand, hit the asphalt and decided it was time to throw in the towel....
#INEEDOTTERBOX
Right now, I'm one of the few people I know who don't own a smart phone. I have been using my old qwerty nokia as I spend a lot of time walking around at work and I don't need to worry about it breaking if I put it in my pocket or if it falls down. It appears to be indestructible which is great, the only problem is that I can't use any of the smartphone functions like being able to check my email or use the internet, which is really inconvenient as I can miss out on important updates, especially as the majority of people now tend to use smartphones. I had a nokia smart phone in the past, but the back broke off, it appears it is not as sturdy as their old phones. This is why I see awesome value in having something like an Otter box (melon pop one looks nice!) as it allows you to use a top performing smart phone everywhere without worrying of it breaking.
Children are the biggest blessing in my life. Of course, sometimes the saying that "they were designed to be cute so we wouldn't hold too much against them" takes on a whole new meaning. For this mother and father, it often means a new smartphone, and then another...another and then quite often ... another. Now do not get me wrong. I love these children with every part of my being. But mess with my smart phone and my familial love takes on another not whole new meaning. My phone is my life. My photos my music my emails my documents. No computer for this chick. Long story short, my two children both broke my brand new iPhone 6 within 2 weeks of each experience. Each time, that shattering sound was not only my phone breaking but a tiny part of my heart. One dropped it on the ground while taking adorable photos of his brother in the backyard (without my knowing) the second threw it whilst trying to calm his little soul while he was in hospital getting a heart check up and trying to sit still for his ecg. The look on the nurses face was priceless whilst I tried to dust it off implying it was only and broken phone and not important. My husband having a fit inn the background. Third time in a month, my darling husband knocked my phone off the couch onto hard wood floors bless him he was so upset. 3 times in one month. I now own a Samsung thabks to my hard working husband who paid for all 3 phones in n that month to keep this mum connected. I would love the black defender Otto box if i won. So my husband could have the new phone he has worked so hard for and spent many a bacon on but never used :)
Having a few sly beers with the boys one night and jamming xbox I managed to fall asleep with my phone on my lap and a crate bottle in my hand. I woke up thinking I'd wet myself and ruined my phone. After a wee dry out session in the hot water cupboard the phone came right...
1 month later I'm ripping down the road on the farm bike, going about 60km/h and my phone jumps out of my overalls pocket and bounces end over end for as long as it took me to stop and go grab it. Mitaculously a couple of scratches but she still works.
2 days later I'm filling up the quad bike at work and I bend down to pick up the fuel container and my phone slips from my top pocket and falls approximately 60 cm to the ground. Both the screen and the back smash completely and it never turned on again :(
That was the end of my iPhone Era. Back to the trusty not so smart phone.
When I returned home one evening from football training, I put my phone in the pocket of my tracksuit top while carrying everything upstairs. I stripped my muddy gear straight off into the washing machine forgetting about the phone. Didn't discover it until the washing was finished and as I emptied the machine there sat the clean but dead phone sitting at the bottom. Went out and bought a cheap replacement the next day and unbelievably did exactly the same thing again 2 weeks later. Now have a cheap spare phone I only take to sport, and leave my main one at home so I don't do it again.
I would like the commuter glacier case if I win.
This fateful night happened about a month ago now, the day my phone began to hate me.
I was having a rad day, everything was going swimmingly. I'd been to work, had a nap (needed when you have to get up at 5 am!), watched some Grey's Anatomy ans was getting ready to go to a friends birthday which was Hawaiian themed! We were all dressed up (my boyfriend the most as he was wearing just a grass skirt and a flower bra haha) and ready to go catch some taxis.
We left and all was well, we had a little walk to go and i was wearing my fave 6 inch wedges (I can run in these bad boys) and that's when it hit me: the pavement. Before i knew it i was down in my knees from a small change in gradient in the footpath. I had my phone in one hand and my friends birthday present in the other. I was immediately freaking out that her Polaroid camera was ok, my friends were freaking out at my bleeding knees (wonderfully scarred now, they had some mean bruising too!) and trying to make sure i was ok, i shook it off and we kept going.
Finally we got into the taxi, i ripped them shoes right off (feeling very betrayed) and clicked my phone screen on to see the time. And there it was.
A smashed screen. (All the way up the screen is a lovely crack and the bottom left is shattered and bits are falling off. My very bubbled screen protector is holding things in place.) I had kept it together up until this point but this got the waterworks going! This has been one of the trustiest phones i have had and i love it! And i broke it.
I'm a very poor student that will never be able to pay off a new phone screen let alone a new phone. So me and my shattered phone are together forever unless we win this amazing prize! The OtterBox Symmetry Case for Samsung Galaxy S6 - Melon Pop is definitely the best because it has pink on it!! Also just want to say thank you heaps for even the chance to enter! You guys rock <3
We were selling our truck so decided to park it on the side of the road so lots of people could see it. We live next to state highway which is quit busy, lots of logging trucks and milk tankers going past. I thought I was being very clever by parking the truck on the other side of the state highway as more people could see it that way. Anyways after parking the truck I had to cross over to get back to the house, it was very busy so I was trying to choose my moment. I ran across and half way my phone slipped out of my pocket. Well I couldn't stop to pick it up and next thing you know a large milk truck drove over my lovely phone, needless to say it did not survive. There were so many pieces it looked like a jigsaw puzzle. It was a bit hard to take a photo of the phone as my phone was the camera. I would love a purple Amethyst otterbox case for my new Samsung Galaxy s6 phone.
Didn't drop the phone, but dropped with it...
I'm an aspiring marine biologist so the course I take as you'd expect, involves being out at sea a lot. I usually take my phone out to sea with me to take pictures of the ocean and of where we'll be diving that day.
I went for one dive which was 26m down and came back up to rest before my next dive.
I got a bit sea sick so decided I'd sit the next one out (still in my wetsuit, with bikini underneath) and while talking to my tutors I got a glimpse of a seal lazing on the rocks, I got really excited and ran to my bag to find my phone and I couldn't find it in the pockets.
Naturally, as a female I put a lot of things in my bra/bikini top out of habit. As I walked to the side of the boat to look at the seal a horrible thought came over me and I put my hand on my chest only to realise that I had left it in my bikini top throughout my 26 meter dive.
It is now in my bag, where I should've left it in the first place, completely drowned. LOL.
I would love a Defender Series Case with Realtree Camo (AP pink).
Thanks!
It was a sunny day outside, but shivers ran up my spine, a gentle breeze was blowing and the birds were chirping "mine, mine, mine". The time had come, the time I knew, the time to upgrade, my formal attire needed something new, a beast is what I portrayed, I needed a suit, I needed it now, the interview was coming, I needed to look proud.
My trusty companion a best friend of mine, told me the best stores and even guided me on time, a true champion they were, smart as could be, guided me to the store, they were always there for me. My companion spoke to me and told me exactly what I needed to hear. I arrived at the store, in an instant I was there! The sun shone down on me as I walked towards the store, today was the day, my formal attire would be lacking no more.
I went inside and found the perfect suit, the pinnacle of perfection, the one just for me. My companion even took a few photos to show off to my friends, little did I know even friends have their ends. I return to the changing room and begin to change back. I hear a strange sound, a cracking noise, echoing perhaps. I look down to my surprise and realize my companion was no more, shattered from impact they lay on the floor, still in my pocket I lift my foot up, the devastating blow just blew my world up. The birds were dead silent the sun was no more, all I could do was stare at you on the floor. My little buddy, my hero in need, I miss you much, I miss you indeed.
To some a phone, but to me a companion, if only I were there for you like you were for me, next time, I promise next time a OtterBox Commuter Case will protect thee.
It was a dark drunken night. And with my pathetic bladder needed to go to the bathroom. It was a cold night so was wearing my big jacket. But little did I know that the pockets weren't big enough to hold my note 3. So as I was standing there doing my business my phone fell out the pocket. Straight in to the toilet. The next bit I'm ashamed about but was a must. Hand went straight in without even thinking about it. Got it out straight in to some rice but alas it didn't work and my poor baby was dead
Ohh am any of the back cases would be amazing.
My partner decided to use it to play games while in the loo and when he went to flush he dropped it in the bowl it got a pretty good flushing a hair dryer has helped fixed it for now but it still freezes a lot
Sat my phone on the bullbar of the truck at work...managed to stay put until we got to the worksite, only to be droped down a grate into the sewers...wtf, really? Defeat, dnstched from the jaws of victory.
I've always had extremely good luck whenever I drop my phone. Until last night that is.
I am currently in Auckland for the weekend to see Motely Crüe. Im on the seventh floor of my hotel room and we have a great view of the Sky Tower. It's late at night and the Sky Tower is all lit up and it seems like a great photo opportunity.
Unfortunately it is raining and I can't really get a good photo of the Sky Tower. I decide to open the window, but the window doesn't open up very far so I stick my arm out the window to get a good picture. I take an amazing shot of the Sky Tower and then slowly and carefully bring my photo back inside.
Just as I am about to get the phone back inside, a very big moth (I am terrified of moths for some reason) is attracted to the light of my phone and completely scares the bejesus out of my. My phone falls from my hand and drops seven floors to a nice solid concrete landing. It did not survive.
Maybe if I had a Melon Pop Otterbox Symmetry Case then my phone would be able to survive 7 floor drops to the ground?
It is the time of year for that event that brings excitement to all those young vibrant college students and empty bank accounts for their poor tired parents: BALL SEASON.
A portion of my family: My mother, sister and two host students, decided a day trip in Auckland City would be a perfect end game to their searches. Because 4 weeks to go and they still have no dresses.
So, pitying my mother, I accompanied them.
After a very unsuccessful day I arrive back to my flat late (having been slaughtered by the verbal abuse of three understandably tense teenagers) and ready to finally lie down with a good book to reconfirm the good in the world. That is, until I reach to my bag to check my phone. Which wasn't there...
Frantically I call my (also terribly exhausted) mother to drive back immediately to return my electronic life partner. I wait with trembling hands in fear I may have done the worst: left it behind in the depths of Auckland city.
My mother drives up to me. I walk with my head held hung low, dreading the possible conclusion. But heavens behold. There it is. In her hand... Glass completely shattered?
Our theory? As I'd hurried out of my mother's car, making a quick goodbye to the barely conscious teens, my phone had fallen out of my bag. With neither of us noticing, my poor phone had been run over by, not only my retreating parent, but by also my room mate who returned home moments after...
Surprisingly it still works (most likely thanks to my current otterbox case) but, as mentioned, the screen needs a complete make-over. So a replacement would be an excellent alternative ;)
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I would love the "OtterBox Defender Case for Samsung Galaxy S6 - Black". Looks like it would save a phone from any disaster!
So my story isn't exactly a very long story
I was home from university enjoying some time with my family. There was a loud bang from outside so we all rushed to see what ha happened, turns out it was a rather major car crash, being a family of surf life guards we instinctively ran down to help, I gave my IPhone to a by stander asking them to call 111, they were rather shaken and dropped my phone onto the road shattering the back glass. (Everyone from the crash is okay now but one driver is in prison for repeated DUI)
A few weeks later I was walking around home and I got a call, my hands were slippery as I went to answer and my phone slipped out of my hands and landed on the back screen, I though I was safe seeing as it had already shattered. However I now have a hole in the back of my iPhone as well as a sticker holding the back together.
If I win could I please have a heavy duity DEFENDER case In black?
Thanks guys!
Purchased my faithful Nexus 5 in white almost exactly one year ago. What a purchase. What a gorgeous looking device I thought. It would take only a fool to hide her away in some cold plain cover. I thought I was unstoppable. On top of the world. My Nexus and I were the only power couple that mattered. That was of course prior to the accident.
Things are different now. My Nexus is embarrassed to be seen in public, and frankly I too am ashamed of her. It was a sunny day in the thick of the Xmas holidays, an easterly breeze blew in strangely from the south and I strutted with a spring in my step. Perhaps this was my undoing. My hands were full as I had just completed the last of my minimalistic Xmas shopping, what happened next is all a bit of a blur. I remember a juggle as I stood to cross Queen St. Somehow my Nexus was the unfortunate lone victim of the juggle. "No big deal" I thought to myself, I had dropped her before and not a single mark to show for it. With her face down to me in the gutter I turned her over and what I saw haunts me to this day. Shards of glass sticking out, splinters through the entire face and oh god the smell. If only I wasn't such a show off, if only I could of exercised a little bit of humility and purchased a cover. I can't afford a replacement screen, I can't afford to replace the phone. Its still functional, just, but showing signs of fatigue and memory loss, doctors suggest this is related to the accident. I'll never make this mistake again.
Wear your seatbelt, make sure your smoke alarms are in working order, ensure everyone has an appropriately sized life jacket when around water.. And for the love of god, buy a cover for your phone!
A while ago I was running to get into work as it was raining, didn't realise I had dropped my phone in the carpark until lunchtime when I went to use it. Found it submerged in a puddle, and had been that way for several hours. Nothing much can fix a phone after that treatment.
The night loomed on as we drove on towards the country. A group of young party goers were expecting our arrival as we were to attend an 18th birthday party. A dress up birthday party might I add (I dressed up as a gangster). Box clutched under my arm, we walk into the garage with swagger where we are greeted by fellow drunken high school friends, all dressed in funky attires. We drank, danced, raved and many friendships were reunited!
As the night went on and the teens proceeded to get drunker by the minute, I decide it was prime time for me to visit the ladies room. A bathroom trip I shall never forget. With my new phone tucked away in my the back pocket of my gangster pants; the nightmare began as I unbuttoned and popped down my jeans. It was all too late as a plonk and splash of water was all to be heard. Unfortunately a delayed reaction caused me to pee on my brand new iPhone. My first iPhone. My love.
I was drunkenly horrified and confused as I grabbed my iPhone from the toilet then proceeded to run it under water from the tap. (What on earth was I thinking?)
My friend had rushed to the scene and looked me right in the eye and shook her head with disappointment and disgust. I will never forget this horrific moment and my friend has surely not let me live it down.
I don't have a bullsh*t story. "It all started on a dark and gloomy night..." *snore.
On a holiday (something that doesn't happen often unfortunately.... anyway *sob sob) I was trying to be an awesome photographer and standing in the ocean at knee height taking photos and decided I want a more horizontal shot, the stupid thing was, I was watching the wave come through the screen and next thing it goes over my phone, what an idiot. Ripped the battery cover off and snapped the battery out, but too late the damage was done. Shot bro.
I dropped my lg g2, completely wrecked the screen and apparently had to replace the whole electrizer thing instead of just the glass (expensive!), then lost it at a bar on my friends 21st the next week!! :'( #maximumlevelderp
...the party was worth it though! ...ish :x
My girlfiend and i were driving back from a day out and my girlfriend had just used my phone (a galaxy note 2) and put it on her lap. When we get to the carpark building (i live in the city and the car live and a multi story car park building)
I could only find a park on a floor which was very day and as my girlfriend got up out of the car it fell onto the concrete. At the time it was to dark to see that the screen had broken and i have a flip cover, so i put it in my pocket and didnt realise till i was in my apartment and went to call some body later that day.... i could believe it when i opened the cover to see that big beautiful screen broken.
It was partly covered under insurance but it still had to pay a fear amount. The really sad thing for me is that although she drop it and i had to pay for it, my girlfriend since then has got a galaxy s6 edge for her birthday.
If you do pick me i would love to have to Commuter case in blue, i think that it looks really cool.
I have an s3 and am currently using it with a shattered screen thanks to my lovely miss 1yr old.. i had gone out the back door to put washing on and miss 1 grabs my phone off the table and throws it out the back door on to the concrete! Lucky shes cute lol :)
If i should be lucky enough to win i would love the purple amythest case :)
mine is a sad tale of phone verses rubbish truck compactor, well that's it really i dropped my phone and it was crushed in the back of a rubbish truck i was clearing a blockage and crunch that was my phone nothing left but a mass of well rubbish! 2500psi hydrolics versus mobile phone. oh well a new one i would be more careful i like the Glacier colour. please and thank you
my sad stoey is about my wives phone. one day she dropped it on our hard tiled kitchen floor its screen smashed and no longer worked. so she needs a new phone.
My Samsung s4 is my pride and joy. I've never owned such an expensive ph before. It's like my child. I take it everywhere! We decided to go for a walk. My 2 sons 10 and 6 the family dog and myself (and my phone). My 10 year old was walking the dog when he got sick of that and asked me to walk him. I wasn't wearing any pockets so asked him to hold my ph....DON'T DROP IT I said a few times!!! The walk was great we all felt good when we got home until I decided to check fb on my ph. I opened the cover to find my screen was smashed! I went to find Mr 10 but his face was more upset than mine. He was bawling in his room he had dropped it accidently on a rock when he was climbing it. I had to put my feelings aside and tell him it was fine and things like this happen.
Needless to say if I won this I would happily pick any otterBox as I think I'm going to need it!!!!
one day after work I hoopd into my truck and startd it up and I have a Bluetooth head unit in it and it startd playing my music so I startd to drive away and it stop and I was wondering wot was going on so I turns round to back up and spotd my s5 in its yellow case lying face down so I went and picks it up and it turns out my back wheel had run it over and completely smashd the screen and it wouldn't work I was so gutd
I used to live in town in some apartments, I was sitting on my balcony (5 floors up) and forgot my phone was on my lap so I stood up to go and get myself a drink. All I see is my phone fly right between the bars on the railing and falling 5 floors down on to concrete. So I go down to look for all the pieces. lolz after finding about 20 pieces of my phone I tried to piece it back together to no avail. Turns out the mobo had cracked into 3rds. Ciao nokia! Not so indestructible...
Oh my... not me but my teenagers have dropped three phones in the last 2 years - yet I am still on my 5 year old one and need to replace it as the IOS is too old.
Firstly, my daughter for some reason was using her phone on the toilet, she stood up, turned around, pushed the flush button and then started screaming as that was the point when she dropped it - it was long gone before I heard her and has never been seen since. On a good note it did not get stuck in the bend and block the toilet. For weeks I had finishes that flushing would stop and back up. Punishment - it was replaced by a cheap phone so that she had to make do.
Second one, my eldest has broken an iphone 4s - took the cover off as he was busy, didn't put it back on and that was the one day he placed it down too hard and from what was less then 10cm in height it broke. I had literally just purchased a lifeproof case for it on the way home and he had to come home to tell me it was smashed and wouldn't go.
Thirdly.. he then replaced that iphone with a galaxy s3, rushed out the door one day, no cover on it , got out of the car and it fell on the road - smashed it. And you would think he would now always use a cover - alas no - I have seen him drop his Galaxy S5 4 times and waited for it to break ,and been shocked it didn't.
So... newish phone, still no case in sight and a mother who holds her breath every time he drops the thing.. I believe it is more an evil plan on his behalf to get a new phone each year.
So instantly I get hit in the face with a bucket full of water, my first though get my brand new phone to a safe place second thought return fire, so I grab my phone even before I get it out of my pocket a giant tear rolls down my eye, its soaked :( as I desperatly search google for that golden fix... I decided the best thing is rice lots of rice... I made me a temple of rice and my phone was in the center... Now I wait
12h pass and I feel its now or never with my battery in hand I fumble to put it together as I pray to the gods... I push the power button.. I see light the phone turns on everything is working.. Tears of sadness quickly turn to tears of joy as I run out side to brag about my technology skills.... smash... my big toe hits the front door and in my pain I let go of my phone jumping around I see all my family start laughing at me... then I look at the floor... Not only is the front screen smashed but the back glass is as well... I walk out.. Long story short that phone is still on the step untouched. I would like a Cool Melon Defender Case please and thank you
It had been a long week so far. Still lots to do, really. I had been swamped with assignment after assignment at university, accounting for about 60 hours of work over 7 days.
Being on the verge of finishing I headed over to the computer lab to finish off my programming assignment that I had spent 40 hours on. Now by this point I was tired, and looking to relax. So I went and met up with my girlfriend to find she was distraught. I tried to calm her down but she ran off and in a quick dash to catch up with her my phone flew out of my pocket and smashed on the ground.
Worse yet it was a gift from her.
I would like a glacier defender case thank you.
My mother brought me a new phone as I had fallen over and broken my last one(I have a medical condition to do with my hips), and on day 4 of having this new phone my hip dislocated and I fell down a flight of concrete stairs, putting out my hands to stop myself from damaging my face I realized as I slide down the stepped that my phone was in pieces cutting into my hand. My mother was not impressed that not only did she have to buy me a new phone, but she got a lovely call from the hospital asking her to sign forms for me to go in for surgery!
It was a start to a perfect weekend.
Camping lakeside. Just far enough into the bush for no reception or phone service. Tent had been pitched, bbq was on & we had just got into warm.dry clothes after an afternoon swim and kayak.
We started to celebrate and enjoy ourselfs. Beers, and bbq food. With the left over food scraps we filled up the eel trap and casted it out for some fun later on in the night.
A few too many beers later, and a eel trap line frantically tugging about what better idea then to walk out into the lake, grab the eel trap and start throwing eels at others.
Meanwhile, my poor phone little did it know that it too was going for a swim on this night. Why would you have your phone in your pocket if there was no coverage!
Anyway, back to the story.
As i bent over for the eel trap, my intoxicated self lost balance and ended up bottom first in the shallow of the lake. Covered in oxygen weed. And little did i know at this time a drowned phone.
The following morning i woke up frantically searching for my phone to only be told by my mates i went for a swim in the lake last night with the eels.
This explained my wet damp clothes i woke up in & also the water level in my camera lense, condensated phone screen & a completely non-functional phone.
I would like the defender otterbox case in black.
A long time ago (last Saturday) in a galaxy (S2) far, far away ... PHONE WARS
It is a period of civil war. My daughter, striking from a hidden base (the local swimming pool), has won her first victory against the evil Galactic Empire of Dad's gadgets.
Before the battle, she managed to steal secret plans to the Empire's ultimate weapon, DAD'S BRAIN, an armoured soft squishy thing with enough power to usually remember where I put things.
Pursued closely by the Empire's concerned Agent (Me), My Princess races towards the pool at full speed, custodian of the stolen plans that can confuse me as to where I left my phone (my togs' pocket) and restore freedom to the galaxy (S2)... to go for a swim with us for 40minutes :)
In the Changing Rooms afterwards I suddenly thought "I've got a bad feeling about this", checked my soaked pocket, and voila, 1 completely dead phone. Maybe an Otterbox wouldn't have saved the phone, but if I won a "OtterBox Defender Case for Samsung Galaxy S6 - Glacier" along with an S6 I think the Empire might just Strike Back and leave their extremely well protected phone in the car next time.
I actually bought an otterbox for my S3 because I had broken the screen, it was better than replacing the whole screen. I like to call it my Bane phone because the case holds in all the broken glass.
A long long time ago,
in an old home far away,
carelessly I held my phone.
It was the evening spring,
i held within my step,
upon my grip it caused to slip.
And that's, when the phone.. It flew.
My mind went,
Why, why must my phone die
thought my best grip, was the grip that was holding it tight
The Nokia came crashing to the ground, and that's, when the floor... broke.
The Nokia it passed right through,
through the floor then out the ceiling of my old basement.
It survived the crash, it survived the night.
Though the structure of the house was no longer quite right.
It was that moment, it was that night
the shooting star it came as if to answer my plight,
to protect my floors from my old phones might,
I wished... For a Samsung Galaxy s6 and Otterbox Defender Case in black.
I drop my phone to piss people off, as my phone is can actually handle a fall unlike all these smart phones. #fliptop
I had literally just brought my phone... And had to go to the gym a few hours later. Because of my job, I go to the gym around 10:30. So not too many cars down the street I was walking down to the gym, and my pockets sucked at being pockets. As in, put anything in one of them, and they'd fall out as soon as you sat down. So, I was walking there, and put my phone in my pocket, not thinking about the sucky pockets, and turned on my music.... And then decided to dance a little while I was walking. Next thing I know, phone goes flying, hits a wall, and lands in a flax bush. 10 minutes later, finally find it, and it's cracked from the top corner, and it looks like a lightning bolt is running across the screen.
I'll enter this for my girlfriend, she needs a new phone once again. Twice now she has left her phone on the car and drove away. The first time she lost it down the motorway in wellington. The second time we found it 2 hours later on the road from our house. How did we find it? It was still turned on, it had 2 hours worth of traffic and was still working. We used google to log into the phone and it located it. Here is a video of it ringing after we got home.
https://www.facebook.com/spencer.lavill/videos/vb.534798898/10153278794113899/?type=2&theater
As I sat in dispair, a tear rolling down my eye I wondered to myself.. How had I gotten to this point in my life? What events had been the cause of this horrible.. Monstrous.. Absolutely terrible thing..? Had the universe really been watching that one time I did that thing I probably shouldn't have..?
A wave of fresh emotion hit me live an all black at full speed as I saw my own cracked reflection. Today was a dark day.
It had all begun at 7:30, I had risen, taken in the glorious sunlight and bathed myself in prepperation for the day that lay ahead. As I drove down my shingle drive way I noticed a black cloud roll in front of the sun, block in not many but a few of the suns rays.. And I had this feeling.. Like there was some kind of storm brewing.. But I continued to drive, my spirits high and faced the day that lay ahead. As each new challenge arose I faced it with steely determination.. Being worn down with each defeat no matter how small.. And as I made my return home, lay on the couch and listened to what in reality was music more of my fathers generation than my own and let it relax me. After what seemed like long enough I decided to retrieve my home work and chip away, hopefully more smoothly than it had run earlier today.. My beautiful xperia v, that had survived being dropped into lake wanaka, run over by more than one tractor and just today, dropped into a sink of hot soapy water.. Lay majestically on the floor.. Knowing to leave me to work.. And in one fateful moment.. One slip of my hand a compass began to slide.. It continued to slide.. It fell..
.. It struck.. Barely a millimeter above the bottom of the cleverly designed screen bevile.. It struck point first and with this single, fateful event.. A crack formed.. And it grew.. It spread like a disease.. Making the brilliantly waterproof touch screen redundant and destroying my beloved phone.. And breaking my spirit.. With that I decided it was time to just play destiny.
I would like the commuter case, casual blue :'(
I had just bought a decent new phone, thought it was time to upgrade from the old one. Swapped over the SIM card, transferred my music, everything was good... for 5 days. I was waiting for a bus to head into the city, checking my phone every couple of minutes because I had nothing better to do. I look up and here it comes. Then this guy who was waiting for the same bus gets up and steps toward the curb. As I'm putting my phone back in my pocket he knocks it. It hits the curb. Back casing, battery and SIM fly out. The rest lands in the path of the bus' tyre. That bit doesn't survive.
I was pretty mad, wanted to turn around and deck the guy. But I knew it wasn't his fault. He even offered to payback a little towards a new one. I didn't take it because I saw how bad he felt, plus I was lazy enough that I hadn't given away or put my old phone on trademe. At least the SIM card survived.
A case may or may not have stood up against a bus (probably not), but who knows where it would have bounced if it had been slightly thicker or a little heavier. Who knows? In an alternate universe I may still have the new phone, or alternate me might have telekinesis and could have caught it. I just hope in this universe I'm lucky enough to win this competition.
My favourite case is the Glacier Commuter case. I guess the Commuter case is kind of fitting with the bus.
Received an S4 as a gift from ny sister. One day after work, I was about to do the laundry, I heard the baby crying so I rushed out to make sure the baby is okay.
When baby is all sorted, I got back with the lanudry and didn't realise that I left my phone in the shirt pocket. When the laundry was done, the phone fell out from the shirt.
The phone suffered water damage and broken camera and touch screen from the drop.
I like the purple amethyst case.
Well two years ago I had an old HTC desire and I only had that phone for only roughly 1 year after one year when one day I had these shorts that had short pockets on them. So I was power walking home like I always do, somehow I thought when I got into an ally way to run through it and cut me time so I started to run. Just when I started to run my phone hopped out of my pocket and straight to the concrete, when I realized I turned back to pick it up and noticed the whole screen was Crack right through... for another year to come I had to deal with this cracking effect on my screen... Learnt my lesson to get a phone case and pants or shorts with better pockets lolz. If I was to get a phone case from outterbox it would be a strong defender series though as nails...
Only a week ago I lost my beloved phone. It was a beautiful Saturday afternoon. One that sees the children get off the PlayStation and actually do something outside. We were playing with bubbles. What better way to spend a day chasing bubbles around the backyard. Before I set off into the mundane challenge called the garden, leaving the boys to play. I put my phone on the table while I attacked the jungle of pumpkin plants and weeds. Only to see the boys drop everything & run (not normally a good sign in our house hold, they've done something wrong). I canvas the area for the evidence. There I see it....My phone sitting in a puddle of bubble solution. I raced over as fast as my legs could carry me. I did everything to rescue my phone, but it was too late. It was gone, dead to the world and no hope of coming back.
So Mightyape, I would LOVE to win a Galaxy S6 and definitely need it to come in the Purple Defender case please!!
Recently I had just sent two months tavelling South East Asia. It was the time of my life, back packing from place to place with my trusty S4 as my companion and taking amazing pictures things I'd never have dreamed that I'd ever see.
Upon returning though, it was back to reality and back to work, full steam ahead. I was so busy the thought of backing up my photos or uploading them to my computer never crossed my mind......
And then it happened.
I had gone to a job to complete a wire in (I'm an electrician) of a heat pump. After popping my head under the house to assess the work I had to do, I noticed that some of the work the installers had done wasn't up to scratch. So of course I grabbed my phone so I could take pictures, to point out what needed fixing to them. After crawling through some tight spots on my belly to complete the work I had to do, I returned to take the pictures only to realize that in my crawl my phone had been crushed between my thigh and the rocky ground. The screen was broken and nothing turned on.
Distraught I took it to be repaired, only to find out it would cost a minimum of $300 to replace the motherboard which was crushed and there was nothing that could be done about the data I had stored on.
Now while there is nothing that can be done about the photos or any of the information on the phone, a new S6 with an Otterbox black defender case, would go a long way towards healing the pain I still feel to this day.
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Picture yourself as a 21 year old student.
You've had your phone for nearly 3 years, and it's been to hell and back and is somehow still working. You've dropped it from 6 foot high and least 10 times, and numerous other times from lower heights. You never bought and case for it, and it had never cracked. You were proud of your phone's resilience. You loved this phone.
Eventually, the continual drops and that one time you dropped it into a toilet begin to wear your phone down. It's processor slows, some of the buttons stop working, you often can't answer phone calls, and it seemed like time to get a new phone. You resist for as long as possible, you and your phone have been through so much, and it still kind of worked.
Imagine then your excitement as one of your flatmates pre orders the new Samsung S6, and says once he has it you can buy his old S5 for next to nothing. You're overwhelmed. You had a middle of the range phone from 3 years ago, you aren't used to this kind of power. You quickly agree and scrape together the last of your current finances to get your hands on an as new S5.
It's day one of modern phone life. You're having a great time on your new phone. The main camera is crazy and even the front camera is better than your old phone's main camera! It actually has enough memory to store more than 3 apps, and life is good. The flat decide to go to the pub for dinner that night, and catch up with some old friends. You're driving. You've been meddling around on your phone before you leave, and slip is good into your pocket before you drive. Unbeknownst to you, during the drive your movements have caused your new, much larger smartphone to shift around in your pocket, and sit quite close to the top of your pocket. You park the car and jump out, excited with your new phone and for dinner.
Crack! For a moment, you're confused at the noise. And then you realise what's happened. You nervously look around, unprepared to look down at your new phone just yet. Your flatmate who sold you the phone gets out of your passenger seat and looks over at you, not able to believe you've already dropped his phone.
The screen is shattered. Functionality is absolutely minimal, and you've only been using it for about 3 hours. You didn't have time to buy at round cover for it, and you can't afford to fix it, because you're a student. But hey, at least you had a S5 for a few hours!
Looks like you'll have to go back to the old phone that can't receive phone calls.
If I was to finally own a smartphone with a case, I'd love the white Glacier case.
Had my trusty Samsung S3 with me, I was going shopping and got out of the car and my wallet and phone came out of my pocket. No worries just put it back in my pocket without thinking, it has come out heaps and never had a problem. Then as I was wandering around i decided to check the time on my phone. Entire front screen completely smashed. GUTTED!!!!!!!!!!! I felt so depressed and it was the day before i was due to head to the south island for 2 weeks. A new phone would make my week!!!!!
Had my trusty Samsung S3 with me, I was going shopping and got out of the car and my wallet and phone came out of my pocket. No worries just put it back in my pocket without thinking, it has come out heaps and never had a problem. Then as I was wandering around i decided to check the time on my phone. Entire front screen completely smashed. GUTTED!!!!!!!!!!! I felt so depressed and it was the day before i was due to head to the south island for 2 weeks. A new phone with the Otter Box Defender in Gridlock would make my week!!!!!
You must have an up to date cellphone my sister said handing me a brand new S3 mini. Pity I am technologically stunted and have Narcolepsy.
This means I collapse anywhere, anytime up to 5 times a day. And if I have my phone in my hands well that comes for the ride to the ground with me.
Even though my phone has a shock cover (not an otterbox one though) repeated falls with me have stopped many of the phones functions from working.., you know just the little ones like answering a call by pressing a button and then hanging up them
Want an alarm on your phone? Too bad that was fall #5
What's that you transferred all your songs to the phone AWESOME until fall #71 now there are only 27 songs left WHERE DID THEY GO???
Trying to take a pic of my friend doing something awesome including dogs, skateboards and my sisters wheelchair... only if you can hold on for about 5 minutes (he couldn't) while my phone scrambles to connect circuits that have come lose during multiple falls ... as for video well we just don't talk about that after fall #33.
This would be a new start with a great phone and a shock proof (and hopefully Narcolepsy proof) case that would naturally be Purple Ameythest.
It was a fine Saturday afternoon I was out on the football field playing a hard game we had only just won, I was just getting ready to leave the game to go home when my phone rings it was work (I'm a Glazier) I had a call out to a shop in town there front door had just broken into a million tiny pieces and I had to figure out a way to bored it up until till the glass factories opened again on Monday after a 3 hours battle with a frame less glass door I had finally got a he job done! But only to take my phone out of my pocket to find it had broken with all the hard work and heavy lifting I had done. I was devastated if only I had an otter box! I could have a avoided the broken phone.
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This is alittle hard for me you all remember the idiot who droped the first iphone 6 to be sold well my story was like that but i dont buy apple products
i be 20 working ma first job payn rent scraping by managing to save like $20 a week when i see the samsung galaxy S2 on sale i see the price and im like "sweet that like $100 off" i check my bank i have just enough to buy it but it will clean me out no emergancy money no back stop no nothing but then i look down at my phone its an old nokia that are like $10-$20 now days and i think to my self i deserve a new phone ive worked my ass off to save i should treat ma self so i jump on the bus(cant afford a car) and head to town i make it to the electronics store and walk in side walk right up to the counter and say "id like a samsung galaxy S2" store person "sorry i think we out" me "tears up alittle" store person calls to manager an says "boss we got any of the galaxy s2s left" manager "na dont think so but give me 5 and ill check" manager walks out staff door with ma dreams in his hand me wait like 20 mins feels like hours manager comes through the door covered in dirt and crap walks to counter puts box on counter me look at it tear up alittle manager says he had to dig around under the shelfs in stock room got covered in dirty coz the last one fell behind the shelf next to it me almost happy enough to hug manager but him covered in dirt pay for phone they give me discount for making me wait so long end up spending extra on extended warrenty and drop protection walk out store walking to bus stop to bus home huge grin on my face trun to side to see am walkin in parking lot enterance not on side walk like i think jump gutter land bad twist my ankle phone still in box falls out my hand skids on path across road and truck runs it over almost cry on the spot where i fell take a week for store to gdlet new stock but new phone comes used it till da day it died from taking a swim in a puddle one rainy week now i has a galaxy S3 and keep it in a case at all times am gona get an otterbox we have spare cash
Otterbox for S6 if they make them S3 otterbox if they dont make S6 ones yet
I had my lovely s4 sitting on top of my lunch and other reading material as I came out of the bathroom. Unfortunately it took a flying leap onto the floor and cracked at the side. This was disappointing enough but then few days later, to add insult to injury, it flew out of my hands again onto the kitchen floor and cracked all the way across the top. No one to blame but myself but very upsetting. A brand new S6 in the purple amethyst Otterbox would be a superb prize to win :-)
Twas the night of the rugby world cup 2011. After watching the final in Aotea Square, my friends and I celebrated the victory of the All Blacks winning in style at Burger King. After ordering the finest town had to offer, we proceeded downstairs to play an ultimate game of dance dance revolution. Placing my new phone, Ipod and wallet down on their chair under the guidance of a slightly intoxicated friend lead to a catastrophe!
She went off to go to the bathroom and someone managed to sneak in and steal my new phone and personal items from less than 5 meters behind me. And of course the area was in a blind spot of the security... So that dance dance trip lost me my first and only smart phone... A new smartphone with a melon pop case would really be sweet and I would never take it dance dancing!
'Twas in the weekend just past, when I was cleaning the pool. I had left my phone on the table that is next to the pool.
Everything was peachy kean until my dog saw a cat in the neighbours tree and ran towards it, smacked into the table which wasn't as stable as I thought and fell into the pool. Dog is ok, wasn't even a cat just a bird in the tree.
A new phone with a melon pop case would be amazing.
i was playing with my son on the couch and i forgot my phone was on the floor and i pretended my son pushed me off the couch and my knee landed on the screen going through the life proof case and now i have a limited edition S5 shatter and is slowly falling apart :(
A few months ago (before I knew the joys of a life proof case) I was hopping out of the car with my baby in my back pocket when I heard a *crunch* from my backside and pulled my phone out to find out that the lcd screen had snapped (not the glass or the touch screen). It was an Alcatel one touch idol and I had treasured her for over a year after scoring a nice deal at 2degrees.
I highly doubt my story will interesting enough to win anything but in the off chance I do, the defender case would be my choice.
Thank you for taking to time to read.
UPDATE: I just got my phone fixed (after jamming it in a locker and smashing the screen). Cost me $250 to fix because it's a S5 and something's about the LCD screen or whatever was damaged too. And guess what. I dropped it last night on concrete and the lower corner smashed the bottom corner of the screen. The back key is no more. No massive cracks across the screen but the damage is bad. Now I'm back to my brick phone. Note to self: get a good phone case.. Otter box have any for S5 if I don't win this comp?
Had my s4 in my hoodie pocket when I stripped off to jump in a bath. There was a sploosh as I took it off too vigorously, followed by panicked phone fishing. Sound and other functions came back the more it dried out. Need a rugged case to protect technology from my muppetness
Gotta be defender series, highest chance of survival
One afternoon just before I was about to leave for work, I was playing my clash of the clans on my phone. I had just deployed all my troops to battle this player and while I was waiting for them to do their thing I decided to go quickly to the toilet. But as I went to put the phone in my pocket it slipped and fell right into the bowel!!
I did have a Samsung S5 which is supposed to be waterproof so I thought it would be ok, but as the phone hit the side of the bowel the back came off and got completely water logged! I was just about in tears as my nice flash phone was no more. Now I'm trying to save up some money so i can buy another one.
If I could choose an Otterbox I would go for the Glacier; https://www.mightyape.co.nz/product/OtterBox-Commuter-Case-for-Samsung-Galaxy-S6-Glacier/23009934
#INEEDOTTERBOX
dropped my galaxy the one designed for builders while getting out of the car. less than 30 cm and the entire screen smashed had it for 3 months.. wasnt covered by warantee and would cost over the purchase price to fix. waited 2 years, spent 20 on gas to take it to the place to find after gettting told $150.. they said there was more damage therefore going to cost $350.. told them just to throw it in the bin... guttered much cause it actually ended up costing me a hell of a lot more cause i had to then cancel a contract which ended up costing over $2000 for everything.. talk about error with your credit history :( guttered!!!!!!!!!
id just be happy to get a fone that isnt a brick and can take photos!
My phone was snug - safe and secure in my shirt pocket... but my glasses were not so lucky!
As I leaned over to get something out of the car boot, my glasses fell out into the boot so I quickly scooped them up. But at that moment, to my horror, I felt that "slip-sliding-away" feeling of my phone submitting to the greater force of Gravity and ejecting itself from the safe cocoon of my pocket.
I instantly righted myself to try and save my phone but that did not stop the plunge - in fact it made it worse... now my phone was plummeting toward the asphalt instead of the comparative safety of the boot! Aaaaargh! But fortunately my lightning-fast reflexes kicked in automatically and I went to catch my falling phone on the top of my left sneaker and luckily it was falling face up.
BUT NO! The phone bounced off my left foot and flipped over, face down onto the thick asphalt gravel at the edge of the road. It really only cracked up the bottom corner of the screen, but ever since then the sensors underneath started activating themselves at random intervals! You never know when they will strike!!
I'm absolutely positive that a Casual Blue OtterBox Commuter Case would have saved the day... :'(
I was off sick from work, and had arranged for my son's carer to pick him up from kindy. I got a call from the kindy to say that nobody had come to pick him up yet. So I had to chuck on some clothes and race to get him. It was the middle of winter last year and pouring with rain. As I left the house, I was frantically trying to call the carer to see where she was at, and ended up juggling keys and phone trying to unlock the car. Wet from the rain, the phone slipped out of my hand and landed screen down on the wet concrete. Massive spider webs covering the entire screen. I took it to a screen repair place in Birkenhead and it's been playing up ever since, randomly pressing buttons and activating links, and scrolling by itself. Weird. And thus ends my tale of woe, and the broken iPhone 5C.
I bring my phone everywhere with me.
The one day I let my phone breathe and take the case off its immaculate 'as new' condition body was the day that I ran over it with my car...
It started with a beautiful sunny morning. In anticipation for a WOF that was due, I got changed into overalls and went down to automotive store for bits and bobs. Now as many of you know, overalls dont have the best pockets. So down it went between the car door sill and the chair rails. Now if any of you know, to get to this area, you may need to slide the seat back ... #1 gouge (not just a scratch). So, peed off I stomp into the store, grab what I need and head back home with my phone in cup holder. Bus swerves out in front without indicating. I jump on the brakes and phone does a somersault hits the trim of the car and lands under the passenger side seat. So I get home pull the chair back and hear a sound similar to fingers on a chalkboard. #2 long scratch. So iv given up hope at this point and carried on with changing the filter and oil for the car.. I must not have learnt my lesson. Phone in pocket, phone slides out of pocket as I get on the creeper and roll under car. I dont realize the scraping and the hesitation in the creeper wasnt a little stone but my phone... #3 whole face scratched (lucky for screen covers). I carry on not realizing this. Drop the car, warm the car up. Check to see what time it is and cant find phone in pocket... jump inside car to search the cabin, reverse car to park it outside and #4 Crunch.... Found my phone!
The phone has received new replacement parts and funnily enough has even more dramas (home button not working now) but theres another story that goes with that :P
It still lives! 4-5years on and still going strong.
One time when I was camping in loiselsamp ground in the lower east cape 5 mind from tolaga bay I climbed a high mountain about 1000 metres high and below just rocks and then ocean I went to stand on the edge to take a pic on my samsung galaxy s3 and the wind blew it out of my hand so I ran down the mountain and tried to find it and after 25 minutes of looking I found it and it was wrecked. So I wish I had the defender case glacier
I don't think this has anything to do with dropping a phone. I will tell my story anyway (:
My Partner brought me a Samsung Galaxy s5 for my birthday. I was so excited, but I was more excited to put it in a bucket of water (being waterproof)...well that's what I thought anyway.
As soon as I opened the box I put the phone in a bucket of water.
Guess what? It got water damaged and I was not happy. Turned out you had to have the back piece on the phone. Boooo!!
I think I would dropped it down the 'Big Wall Of China' stairs instead of putting it into a bucket of water. LOL
I really want to win an s6 it would look so good with the purple case (:
I haven't got a great story. I haven't got a great phone either.
In the past, I have dropped, kicked, lost from car roof, and had tamariki play with it. Any yet my phone lives on....
So I thought I'd enter the comp so that my poor old Samsung can go into honourable retirement.
I had a Samsung galaxy s4 and was sitting watching a movie and enjoying a large home made milkshake. Then a knock on the door as I stand up my phone slips of my couch and falls into my glass perfectly sliding into the glass. (Pure bad luck as it just fit in the glass. Couldn't have done it if I tried)the worst part was the horror I felt as I watched my lifeline sink into the pink liquid Knowing it would never work again. Safe to say I didn't answer the door.
Very simple really and I'm sure allot of people have done it.. I was at work setting up equipment, had to pop to the toilet and had my cell phone in my back pocket. Pulled my jeans down and then splash! Yes I had to do the hand in the toilet job to get it out. Did it still work... no. When I got home I tried to dry it out with the hair dryer.. still no go. Good bye phone. :( Always put your phone in your front pocket or.. don't go to the toilet with your phone! Lesson learnt..
Oh.. purple please.
When my 3 year old nephew decided it was a good idea to ride his bike over my phone. Screen was smashed.
I like the Casual Blue case please.
My wife always says, "empty you pockets before putting your clothes in the hamper!!". Me, I never listen. Looking everywhere for my phone, we finally find it having been soaked, washed, rinsed and spun in my pants.
After a few days, it managed a revival but only at half volume and half speed.
I was working a really busy day (as a technician at an electronics store) and pulled my 2 week old S3 out of my pocket and my screen had cracked. It has been dropped my nearly 2 year old and thrown often so now the buttons don't always work.
Once...... there was a lone ronin.... who journeyed through the land of the rising sun.
During his travels, he met many perils such as having to battle the deadly flu with multple bottles of Vitamin C drinks on a daily basis, or the time the strap of his not-so-trusty slippers broke while exploring the land of rolling dragons and metal car rides - Universal Studios.
However, none of that compared to the time after he raided the white castle in Kyoto with his modern mobile image capturing and communication device known to many as .......... a smartphone. While walking down the long flight of stairs from the white castle, feeling battle-worned having walked two hundred thousand steps throughout the day amidst the gloomy and wet pouring rain, inadvertently, his smartphone slipped from his hands, falling tumultuously down two flights of stairs.
It was at this moment, the lone ronin wept a single tear, heart wrenched as he rushed down to rescue his smartphone only to find multiple scratches and a damaged aluminium frame. If only he had something to protect his smartphone from this unfortunate tragedy, if only....he had..... an OTTERBOX.
My mum may well be the most unluckiest person in the world.But man she has a sense of humour. She was hanging with us lads one night having a few beers, when she decides to try weed for the first time. At the time she had just finished a chemo course and was on multiple meds. We didnt have time to stop her before she leaps in the water pool up at Bastion point tries doing backstroke and basicly soaks herself and her old phone. The old girl could use a nice new purple otter case and phone to go with it.
It all started when my good friend offered me a free paramore concert ticket, upon arriving at vector arena we stopped by an Aston Martin DB9 (my dream car at age 15) and dreamed those dreams. Very shortly after snapping a couple pics the owner turns up and me and my mate applaud as he starts rev'ing the guts out of the engine, i start videoing on my intact samsung, the DB9 then did a huge burnout nd took off doing a fat skid almost loosing control into an oncoming car, and taking off round the corner. Now two minutes my same mate is showing off doing a handstand, so i threw my phone at his back, he choose the wrong moment too return too his feet, the samsung collected him in the upper lip requiring too get 6 stitches, i broke his face, his face broke my phone thus loosing all footage of the glorious DB9 with a case all could have been prevented with a case... Or me not being stupid.
Cheers for reading if i win the OtterBox-Symmetry-Case-for-Samsung-Galaxy-S6-Gridlock
Was my faveourite
Thank you
Daniel Morgan
One day about 6yrs ago i had an LG android smartphone, I had had it for about 5months. I was walking home from school and the sky suddenly changed grey and a storm came out of nowhere with buckets of rain, I had my phone in my pocket and tried to race home as fast as possible but I was soaked to the skin (was about a 20min walk normally) I got my phone out of my pocket after getting changed and it wasn't on. I was so mad when I turned it on and could only see half of the screen working, it never worked again and I went back to an old Samsung flip phone since that (which annoyingly could only store 200txts in it, so requires emptying every week) and would love to have a Otterbox Defender Case to protect a smartphone that I can only dream of having.
Thanks for reading and cheers Mighty Ape and Otterbox for running this competition.
Cheers
Josh
Was travelling back from a weekend away. 3 children screaming in the back of the car. Had to pull over to reset the dvd player in the back to try and get some peace. My cell phone was nestled in the little pocket in the car door. As I opened the door a massive truck went past causing the door to slam shut but not before the phone went flying. Thankfully not under the truck but still face down on SH 1. Leaving gravel rash all over the screen. Needless to say very unhappy. Otterbox commuter Glacier could have saved all my issues.
I had just been through hell having major surgery on my spine - I'd just returned home from hospital after having my l4-l5 disk replaced with a metal one and had only been home for 2 days. It was a freakishly cold day for early February and despite the weather, my wife decided it would be a good time to take our toddler to the park so I could get some rest. I had a really stupid idea... I had a thirst for a nice hot cup of coffee so made the long slow journey downstairs to the kitchen to arrange a mug of the tasty beverage with the full intention of returning to bed to consume it. I planned everything out including taking my phone with me for entertainment whilst the jug boiled. First part of the mission was complete! Coffee in one hand, phone in the other I began the return trip at a snail's pace taking care not to spill my hot cup of Java.
Steps 1 to 12 went perfectly and without incident until the moment that I lifted my foot toward the unlucky 13th step.
It was slight... ever so slight...
But it was enough that when my toes clipped that fateful step, my balance was destroyed and I began to teeter - first fo ward, and then as I over corrected, backwards down the stairs head over heels, coffee flying up through the air, phone death gripped in my hand and accelerating with me at light speed before everything turned black.
I awoke some moments later upside down with my empty coffee mug resting uncomfortably in my groin and it's earlier contents saturating my phone - at first I was too afraid and too pained to move. As the minutes ticked by horrifying thoughts of possible internal damage from the fall began to emerge - will I be able to walk? Will this pain ever cease? Will this coffee stain ever be removed from the freshly painted wall/stairs carpet/favorite boxers???
Then it hit me like a ton of turd hitting a turbine...
MY ONLY LIFELINE WAS NOW DRENCHED IN COFFEE AND IS AWKWARDLY STUCK BENEATH MY CRUMPLED FRAME!?!
How could I save myself without the use of my phone?! Gingerly I tested my limbs and the small amount of ability I had to move them. Slowly I returned to a sitting position and looked at my once beautiful Galaxy S4. It was a sad sad sight - an OtterBox case could have prevented all this mess and destruction and yet I had too much pride to use common sense and buy one before this episode occurred. Now I have a coffee resistant S5 however I know that the only real way to protect it is to get one of your cases - the black defender would be the most likely idiot resistant one I imagine. The S6 is a nice phone but even with one of your wicked cases I bet it could still be destroyed in my hands - pictures on instagram soon...
It was Christmas day 2011 and I was enjoying time with family when my four year old nephew starts a game of 'you can't catch me!'. After a few laps screaming around the lounge I grazed the coffee table and heard an unusually loud THUD! I'd forgotten my Nokia X6 was still in my pocket and had taken the hit full force. Death was slow & painful. Over the coming weeks the touchscreen would miss more & more inputs, until finally failing to register any at all. So frustrating to watch an incoming call and not being able to answer it!
I'd love the hell out of an S6 & Otterbox Symmetry Gridlock case :) Thanks for the competition!
It was a warm summers evening at a friends party. A good time was being had by all, maybe too much of a good time. My friend while slightly drunk tripped on stairs with me walking down them while texting. We both tumble down the stairs and land with a great THUD. My drunken friend gets up and dusts him self off saying, "that was close". Sure he was fine, but my wrist was sprained and my phone screen cracked. never have I disliked drunk people as much as at that moment. If I win I'd like the Glacier case. thanks mightyape
It was an overcast day, surely a subtle sign to tell me things would soon turn against me.
I had decided to go to the local park during my lunch break as was consistent with the phase I had been going through at the time of feeding the ducks.
Standing at the edge of the pond I slide my phone into my bra for safe keeping, all girls know that your bra is the best place to store things when you have a lack of pockets. I made extra sure it was wedged in there well.
I proceeded to feed the ducks bread piece by piece until one slice of bread was left. This last bit I rip into little pieces and cupped in my hand, ready to throw far and wide. I was going to make it a good throw, it was going to reach those ducks in the back.
I bend my knees and elbows a little and make ready for the swing. With sudden acceleration the little pieces of bread scatter to the wind and so does a pink thing go flying past and and with a plunk descends into the water.
Pink? Bread isn't pink! But my phone is pink. Frantic boob patting ensued to establish that the jolting motion of my throw also dislodged my pink cellphone from my bra. There beneath the water is was laying amongst the duck poo and scunge.
And of course my phone is my baby and life cannot go on without it so I was my job to rescue it. In I went. Luckily it wasn't too deep. Out came a sopping wet phone that was not really a phone any longer.
If only I had wrapped its pink shades in an otterbox. With the word otter included in the name you know it would have protected my poor phone from nasty things like duck ponds!!
I would love the black Defender case, because my phone needs to be defended from me. Thanks for reading :)
I had a rather old Motorola flip phone.
At work, the computer hard drive sat on our desk and our screens were on the drive. I would sit my phone on the drive.
One day I knocked the phone and is slid straight off the drive into my cup of tea. It disappeared completely under the tea. I fished it out, took it home, took it apart and put it in rice. After a few days, I did manage to get it going again, but it was never the same.
The camera (which wasn't very good to start with) wouldn't work at all, and it kept loosing power very suddenly - so it would have been no good in an emergency (ie stuck on side of road with broken down car etc).
I persevered for a couple of months with it, but eventually had to replace it.
I upgraded to a Samsung s4 which is fab, but the s6 would be even better. And I would love the Purple Amethyst Defender Case.
The s6 and defender case would be too big to fit in my cup of tea at least!
My son, the ever adventurous mischevious boy he is decided to see if he could climb through the bathroom window. We live in a first storey unit and the window is tiny and not far from the ground.. to cut a long story short he got himself stuck in the window. So I had my neighbour on the outside of the house trying to pull him backwards and I had to stand on the toilet so I could reach the window to help push him out of it! Needless to say it was alot of effort and in the process my phone and mp3 player slipped out of my pocket into the toilet.. After about 30 minutes he was freed from the window and exclaimed "Could of been worse mum, I could of gone in the toilet.." Haha ahhh kids! Using an old Nokia now :( The Purple Amethyst looks great :)
My goodness have I got a blockbuster story for you...
Back in 2012 in my last year of college there was a nation wide earthquake drill. I was sat in maths class with my fellow pupils as our maths teacher started to explain what was going to happen. He turned on the radio (to ZM I believe) and told us that once a certain tone started being broadcast we had to get under our desks and act as if it were an earthquake. We all confirmed our understanding and waited expectantly for the tone...
*boooooooo* It struck our ear drums, but no one seemed to be making a move. So I figured, being the over enthusiastic person that I am, that I would help encourage the others to follow my lead. "EARTHQUAKE!" I screamed as I began to violently shake my desk "EARTHQUAKE!!!!". Everyone began piling under their desks. The tone subsided, my desk shaking stopped, and I climbed out from underneath it to the laughter and confused expressions of my class mates. Success, as far as I was concerned...
I began to pick my things off the floor. First my maths book, then my pencil case, and lastly m- that's when I saw it. My cellphone was lying face down on the ground, unresponsive. Unbeknownst to me it had been happily perched on my desk up until the shaking had started. It had then slid off, smashed between two desks as I gyrated mine back and forth, and taken a plunge to the floor. The screen was utterly smashed, along with my hopes that the phone would be okay. DEAD, IT WAS.
Fun fact for ya: Two weeks later I managed to smash the screen of my replacement phone on another desk! Bang on the corner :( My most recent phone has also been cracked from jumping on my side onto a stage with it in my pocket. However, the inner screen of this one hasn't been broken, thank goodness, so it's still slightly usable.
All true stories, unfortunately I don't have instagram so no photo evidence :(
If I were to win I'm happy with whatever case you give me. Although, to reduce my chances of breaking this wonderful new phone, you might want to give me the strongest case... The Defender I assume? :)
Thanks!
No matter where I put my Samsung Galaxy S2 phone to charge my 3 years seems to be able to find it and pull it from the charger to play you tube kids clips, ok it helps him with numbers and language but i never seem to have a charged phone, would be nice to have another phone and case to protect it from the scratches a 3 year old can do. if i was picked i would like the OtterBox Defender Case for Samsung Galaxy S6 - Purple Amethyst
Decided to have a lovely breakfast of chocolate chip pancakes with my beautiful children when there Dad was away on a boys weekend. We be needed cream so off to the shop we went (walking as its just up the road). On the way home my boys decided they would have as running race, i went to chase after them and bang dropped my phone. It went flying bouncing off the grass gutter straight down the grated drain by the road in to a huge puddle of water. Tried to get the top off the drain and get it out but had no luck :( HTC one m7 $1000.00 phone literally down he drain. Rang Dad to see if he could help he came over with a crowbar and we got it back. Totally wrecked had to go straight to the rubbbish..... pancakes were delicious tho.......
Humpty dumpty sat on a wall
Humpty Dumpty had a big fall
All the kings horses and all the kings men couldn't put Humpty together again
Moral of the story, get a symmetry glacier case.
This story is a thing of nightmares, torn and twisted, this night is fresh in my memory, it physically hurts to think about and haunts me at night. That is why the story I am about to tell you is top-secret. I was sworn to secrecy by all whom were involved in the night, however, I am willing to tell you as a forewarning as too why one should possess an Otter box case.
It was a cold and windy winters night, the wind pounded against the window and the rain thudded against the roof. The pale, muffled sounds of thunder flittered in the back ground. The power was out and I curled myself up on the couch with my cats in anticipation of a grim night...
Just as I started to calm down and settle into the night, all be it slightly cramped by the cats, I heard a horrendous beeping, a beeping paramount too the children's screams, fingers tearing down a chalk board, it was on par to a twisted clown chuckle. The noise filled me with dread, how could something be beeping if the power was off?
The cats ears twitched at the screeching and after a quick moment to build up courage I stepped out of the warm embrace of my blankets and out into the dark unknown of the night...
After some brief fumbling around my hands grazed over the cool glass of my brand new Motorola G 2. I grasped the top of the phone with my sweaty, shaking hands, the phone fumbled before I firmed my grip. I tinkered around trying to find the buttons on my new cell phone a few beeps indicated the volume button before I found the power button at the top. The screen came to life and my eyes shuddered under the light. My fingers tapped and turned eventually activating the flashlight application. I extended my arm to illuminate my path as I endeavored to find the source of the unknown beeping...
I searched high and low for the source of the mysterious beeping, the computer, the fridge, the oven, the washing machine and dryer - heck, I got so desperate I even check to see if it was the toilet that was beeping. None of these prevailed and I was left knowing less about the spin-tingling noise than before.
Then,
It dawned on me...
The beeping must be coming from downstairs.
The idea shuddered through my body as cold as ice, if my suspicions where true I would have to go outside to get there. In the cold and torn eve. My mind tried to suffocate the idea, flooding it with other ideas of what could be making the noise. I searched low and high but in the end I had to succumb to the fact that the noise was coming from down there...
I stuffed on my dirty sneakers and an old musty smelling pull over and stumbled down the rain swept stairs and into the unknown of the night...
The night haunted me, every whistle of the wind I took as a foot steep, every creak of a tree I took as an attacker prying in the hidden light. I took every gust as a breath and every noise as a death sentence, my heart thudded through my chest and into my throat. Panic and terror consumed me as I fumbled with the clunky door handle, trying to slot in the key under the fading light of my cell phone. Constantly twisting my neck to try spot my followers...
I pushed through the now open door and slammed it behind me, sliding my back down the door I pawed for breath, my lungs burned, my face was frozen and my heart jittered with fear and torment. I took a moment to compose myself and realized that the beeping was louder down here, I must have been right, but what was making the noise?
I sat my cell phone high above my dad's office on the filing cabinets so I could search through the room under the dim light in an attempt to find the source of the noise. A while of fumbling, tripping and entanglement in wires lead me to the corner of the room...
I had found the source of the noise! It was the generator that my dad had installed to ensure his computer wouldn't shut down in a power cut. I felt like such an idiot, duh! Why didn't I think of that! I burst out laughing at my stupidity but then a flash of lightning struck, illuminating the room and startled me. I felt my feet fall from under me. I fell into the filing cabinet. I looked up from the ground where I fell to see my cell phone tumbling from the top of the cabinet. I extended my hand in an attempt to save my poor baby...
PHEW!
That was a close one I sighed.
The phone landed squarely in my palm, I pushed myself off the floor and headed towards the door to head back into the crypt of the night...
I sprinted up the stairs like a little kid, with my ankles kicking at my bum and slipping everywhere. My heart thudded with the idea that I was being followed, even though I knew I was not it still engulfed my every being with torment and horror.
I stumbled back into the couch soaking wet, hair slathered down my face smelling of rain. I didn't care and pulled the blanket back across me and dosed off into the night surrounded by my little fluff balls.
I woke to a shudder at the window, I pulled out my cell phone to reveal that it was 3:13am
Was somebody out there?
No, they can't be, don't be absurd, it's all in your head...
The window juddered again, petrified I pulled back the curtain...
There stood two male figures, one twisted beyond belief, torn lip and black eyes. An heart stopping stare that could burn through even the strongest men. The other was painted as a clown holding a sack slung across his back, grinning at me, burning into my soul...
I feel back into the floor in shock, my cell phone flew across the room and into the corner. Landing face first on the carpet. I crawled towards my cell phone, with every movement my body became more and more drenched in terror.
Who are they?
Are they going to kill me?
I froze in a heap, I couldn't believe it, how, why? I could hear their chuckles from the foetal position I had now assumed in the corner. It took every inch of my will power and strength to look back...
What did I see you ask?
My dork of a brother and his mate standing at the window waving around a bag of Macca's laughing at me.
Urgh.
I looked such the fool whimpering in the corner...
I picked myself up, dusted off my still damp jeans and bent over to pick up my cell phone, my brand new beautiful Motorola G 2 just to find that the screen was now engulfed, tainted, destroyed by spider-like lines that sprawled its length.
The worst possible thing happened that night, I destroyed my new cell phone, on the carpet of all places.
The night still haunts me, it haunts me beyond belief, cause now every time I make a call or send a text it leaves me with shards of glass shredding through my skin...
If only I had had one of those beautiful OtterBox Defender Case for Samsung Galaxy S6 in black, maybe then this story would have had a happy ending...
TL;DR:
>OP is a total scaredy cat.
>OP's brother has a poor sense of humour
>Brothers poor sense of humour caused scaredy OP to drop Phone
>Phone smashed on the carpet
>Now OP's phone leaves shards of glass in her as painful reminder of that night
>OP wishes she had an awesome OtterBox case so this never happened
P.s here is OP's instagram photo... http://instagram.com/p/2ieoc4JFii/
In the attempt to earn brownie points with the flat mate i decided to take out the recycle bin. i might of taken it thru the house and down some stairs where it decided to take me on in a fight where it low blowed me in the pocket needles to say the hey lets keep the phone safe in the pocket and not txt and drive the wheelie bin did not go so well for the screen.
Gridlock
I wrote a little poem for the little monkeys while u ship away the prizes for all the fellow apes out their
i have no instagram,i cant write any stories
please give me the s4 galaxy so i can be the coolest monkey in my school and not a hori (no racism)
- te coastie drunkn monky
So.. I woke up one morning, getting ready to hit the town because I had a few appointments to go too, so i got ready and started headed out, I don't really like cars so I much prefer to walk to the places I need to go. so as I was walking, listening to the sweet, sweet sounds of Five Finger Death Punch on my phone, I tripped, I don't know how, I don't believe anything but the flat concrete was beneath my feet, but I did, but I managed to regain my balance, the sweet sounds were still rolling, so everything was fine. I was about half way to town (It was about an hours walk from where I lived) when I tripped again, but this one was a genuine face plant, down I went face first into the pavement, good thing nobody was around otherwise I would have been so embarrassed, but as soon as it hit the ground, the sweet sounds had stopped, following a loud clap sound, I looked up to see my phone lying on the ground, I wondered "why had the sweet sounds had stopped?", so I went over to see if it was okay, usually my phone was okay considering sometimes my phone just falls right out of my hand, but this time.. was different. I picked up my phone to see the entire front screen was obliterated! It was a touch screen (Like most phones nowadays) so now it was rendered useless, but not only that, most of it's integral components within like the springs that turned the phone on and the speaker and microphone was just completely broken and out of place, it just wasnt worth repairing, after that I had no form of communication at all with anyone unless I made the trip to see them and hoping they would be there when I got there, oh such dark times. Defender Case Glacier^^
I was managing the Canterbury U21 women's hockey team and in the middle of a game the technical director asked me a question, as i swung round to answer her my phone that was timing the game and sitting on top off the rotation sheets flew out of my arms and tumbled on to the water turf, bounced once and slid between the grating of the drain landing with a wet plop, face down in the water. It went, occasionally, for about 2 months then died completely. Commuter case or defender case would be fine, in casual blue
First of all it was a mistake using my iPhone in its life proof case to record my waterfall experience....
All day year I had waited to go to Fiji to experience I different way of living and to experience the native life! I mean who doesn't enjoy sun, crystal clear water and beautiful food right??
After being on holiday in Nadi for a few days I finally went on the waterfall trek, we would walk through one of the towns to get to our boat the would row us to their village where we would see where they would live.
I made the mistake of leaving my phone back in the house after walking around outside for the tour and I arrive back to see one of the children holding my phone while he was biting, attempting to bend it and smashing it on the the concrete on the floor...
As I politely take it off him all of the other tourists were laughing and saying how lucky it was for me to have that case on otherwise it wouldn't have survived the trip, but I had faith and I explained that I had complete faith in my life proof case and that nothing could penetrate it's unbreakable shell.
Little did I know for what was heading my way....
After arriving at the beautiful waterfall I took a dip in it, recording swimming in the water and going right beneath the water where it was falling from the top. Then someone had a great idea and jumped off the top of the waterfall.
So after EVERYONE had a go jumping off I was peer pressured into doing it myself, so!
After climbing meter after meter the nerves were kicking in... The doubts that I would make it to the top or even that my phone would fall out of my hands.. So I clutched tightly onto my phone and gathered my courage and powered to the top.
Once I arrived up to the top I was blown away by the view, I could see past all the trees and into all the villages, so as you do I unlocked my phone and started taking memorable photos that would last a lifetime.
I then put it into video so that it would record this once in a lifetime experience, as I started to jump I lost my footing and placed my hands on the rocks so I could stop myself from falling down below and recover.
But clearly Instead I fell back, smashed my phone on the rocks while landing on my ass, then ever so gracefully skidding down VERY sharp bumpy rocks into the water below where I momenterily realised that while I was falling I no longer had my phone in my hands and that I may or may not have dropped it while being in immense pain.
So I spent the following hour looking for my phone, I later found it fully submerged in water inside the case loosing all my photos and videos from the trip and therefore not having anything to remember the trip to Fiji.
Moral of the story, don't be stupid in using a non waterproof phone in a thin plastic case in a waterfall.... Actually in even just water haha
I had a phone, once... but she was grumpy, loud and wary and her drool could curdle dairy! almost crawling now her hands are not the cleanest, but despite her evil eyes, and her temper and her cries. she always wanted my phone to be her chew tooooy
two weeks ago i was waddling around rotorua on vacation with my s3 in my pocket. now i'm not saying that the s3 was in great nick, it had more than its share of falls ( kind of the situation where the phone starts to take on t he appearance of its owner.)
to cut a long story short i had my phone in the button up pocket of my shirt, with the button undone ( so as to take many holiday snaps of trees and stuff) and the phone decided to jump out of my pocket and onto the cold hard road.
i picked it up and brushed it off as i had many times before, but ob this occasion there was a little something different.
a darkness began to creep across the screen. a dark disconnecting oil slick taking with it the pretty face of my partner on the screen staring back at me. Over the next 24 hours the screen entirely blacked out as the display shut down. and that was the death of my s3.
this wouldn't have happened if i had an otterbox defender case
A few weeks ago during the soft pitter-patter of the rain against my window, as I gazed into the deafening silence of the night, a bright flash in the sky emerged out of seemingly nowhere.
From the smouldering wreckage appeared the silhouette of a bipedal creature unlike anything I'd ever seen before. Curiosity kills the cat you know.. What was I to do? I did what any person my age would do. I ran outside in the pelting rain to investigate, with nothing but a torch and the clothes on my back.
In front of me, the shadow loomed. It must have been over 6 metres tall! I hurriedly fumbled to find my torch switch! Where was it?! There-- suddenly everything in front of me became illuminated. I stood paralyzed in fear as I took in the sight before me. A gigantic, living machine, with blue and red flame shaped decal. Their eyes opened and they stared right into my soul. Then he spoke. "I am Optimus Prime. I stand for justice and am here to protect your planet against the evil beings known as Decepticons". Shit happened, and now I'm teamed up with them.
During my first fight against the Decepticons, I was cornered and could do nothing but turn on my phone's strobe light to try and blind him. Unfortunately that didn't work too well and he simply crushed it effortlessly. Optimus Prime intervened and sacrificed himself to save me. Me, of all people. Why.. I can't do anything. I'm just a helpless child.
My one and only regret is that I didn't have a Black Defender Otterbox Case during that time. If I had, things would have turned out so much differently. Instead of being unable to fight back, I could have stood strong and fought the Decepticons. By just shouting a few words, my phone would have destroyed them all - "Otterbox, transform and roll out".
It was back in 2013, I had just started a 24 month contract with vodafone on a $100 a month plan, and I got a Galaxy S3 out of the deal. I was pretty damn impressed with the phone. Unfortunately one day, I went out on the town for a few drinks. I bumped into many groups of friends. As one group left, caught up with another, next thing you know its nearly morning, and I needed to get home.
Pulling out my phone to call a taxi, someone ran up behind me and knocked my elbow, catapulting my phone several metres across the road, connecting with the ground on the corner of the handset, sending a spiderweb of cracks up the phone. Unable to afford a new phone, and unable to afford termination fees on the contract.
I ended up completing my 24 month contract with a phone that I could barely see the screen of. The touchscreen often failed, and it would randomly exit from apps without warning. And the cracks expanded over time, until it was barely functioning. I had never needed a protective phone cover before, but never not going to have one again.
Don't have a photo..it's too depressing.
Otterbox Commuter
I bumped against a desk corner in the office. Didn't realise until I got home that I'd cracked my screen :(
Am sure this wouldn't of happened with a OtterBox Defender Case.
Glacier would be my preferred colour.
Thanks Mighty Ape!
Coming home with two heavy bags of groceries, i put my weeks old iphone 4 on the kitchen bench. There's a shelf above the bench which is always full to bursting. Putting groceries away, i shoved stuff out of the way to make room and you guessed it; something fell on my phone and smashed it. I'd paid cash ($1100 at the time) and had no insurance. I ended up selling it as it was for $500 and bought an HTC Desire. Been android ever since!!
Black Defender Otterbix case please :)
I just got the Samsung s4 :) then after having it for a few months i was getting the kids in the car i sat my phone on the roof of the car and then i forget to grab it again then we left i got home went to get my phone then i couldn't find it and remember i had left it on the roof i went back to see if it was there and it had gone it must of fallen of the roof and someone picked it up :( now im using just a Samsung galaxy trend so a newer phone is really needed https://d2cbl95zrwg5u1.cloudfront.net/images/blog/emoticons/sad.png
Oops Otterbox!!!
Not long ago, in a galaxy far far away a young man was enjoying a beautiful sunny Golden Bay autumn day by staying inside jamming on his Xbox when suddenly he receives a txt from a friend inviting him to go on adventure time exploring the wilderness. The young man is delighted and quickly gathers his things, chucks on his Hoodia, puts his phone in his hoodie pocket and scurried out to his car. Suddenly he hears a crunch while closing the car door but for some reason thinks nothing of it. When he arrives at his destination he receives another txt and as he pulls his phone out of his hoodie his hand gets covered in shattered glass. He is shocked as he realizes he must have slammed his phone in the door of the car. Meanwhile his friend that he is visiting is having a laughing fit.
Now this is the story all about how my life got flipped-turned upside down.
And the black defender case would be awesome thanks
On vacation, somewhere in the South Pacific. The day couldn't have started out any better. The sun was shining and a constant cool breeze keeping me reasonably cool in a normally hot and humid weather. Not a cloud in the sky, perfect for a drive to the local beaches. Excited and a tad sleep deprived, I grab everything I need in ass disorganized fashion. With my iPhone 5 in one hand (with a new Spigen Glas screen protector) and countless junk in the other, I quickly shove my phone into the side pocket of my shorts to grab another bag with my freed hand. Off I go, walking towards the car. I quickly throw everything in and hop into the passenger seat. That's when I hear an all too familiar sound. Like a coin down the slot of a gumball machine, my phone had fallen between that narrow gap between the handbrake and my chair. On first thought it could have been some loose change but i know very well what grim reality lies beneath my seat. I quickly jolt up and out of my seat to check my pockets. As suspected, I will need to surgically remove my phone from under my seat. If there's one thing I know about Japanese cars (it was a Toyota and FYI, I don't know anything about cars) is that they really know how to cram a lot of things in tiny spaces.
This isn't a big deal, I've done this before. I try the obvious first but there's no way that my hand could fit between the slot it had fallen through. It was as if it's sole purpose was to devour smartphones.
If I readjust the seat I could reach it from the gap in the front. I sit back down and pull the appropriate lever and slide my seat back. That's when I hear an unpleasant crunch...
Frozen with fear, dreadful thoughts begin to flood my mind. Eventually, I slowly begin searching for my phone knowing very well that I had most likely just retired it after only two years. Like a blind man trying to read, I search under my seat with only the sense of touch to guide me. There's quite a bit of trash but eventually my fingers stumble upon the familiar metal box I know too well. I pull out my arm and am surprised at my phone's condition. There were some minor scratches and a newly formed crack in my new screen protector but my phone was nowhere near the unfortunate state I had expected.
Relieved, we drive off (the driver and my fellow passengers were unimpressed by the unexpected delay and my temporary bi-polar state). Overjoyed, I quickly return to my original emotional state. I felt invincible for the rest of the day. That is, until I notice a dead weight of my water-logged iPhone in the pocket of my shorts as I emerged from out of the water.
Forgot to mention that the Melon Pop Symmetry case looks mighty sweet :)
Ok, so I'm pretty weird...why? Because in all the years I've been using Samsung Galaxy phones (yes folks, from the Galaxy S to the S5) I've never....
broken a screen,
dropped it in the toilet,
run over it with my car,
had it stolen,
left it at a bar,
dropped it while juggling with chainsaws,
shot it,
defended myself from a samurai attack with it,
saved the world with it (or have I????)
I just look after it....and have had many Otterboxes over the years to help me.
So although I won't likely win this competition, I can certainly vouch for both the Samsung Galaxy phones and the Otterbox cases - good luck everyone!
It was a hot summers day working in overalls outside in the sun then the clock struck 5pm and I couldn't jump out of my overalls faster enough but without first emptying my pockets and sitting my cherished s5 on top of the truck, but from all the heat stoke and lack of water I was tired and flustered and decided to enter my truck as quickly as possible forgetting about my phone, as we drove down the road I had that sick feeling I had forgotten something and it wasn't until we got to the round about where the phone slid off the truck and we ran over it with the back wheels that I realized I was missing apart of my soul my s5, we pulled over to the side of the road where I noticed my limited edition gold s5 scattered across the road and without thinking I ran straight into traffic and in front of a massive truck to stop him from hurting my precious phone any more then it had already been hurt ; ( apart of me died that day and to make matters worse I used my savings to get me another one but I just can't connect with it the same way I did with my first s5 and then within the first week I cracked the top right corner, obviously the phone hasn't connected with me either.. rip gold s5 you'll always be remembered xoxoxoxo
I had just got back from my American cross country motorcylce trip which had issues like idiot american drivers taking me out but that's a story for another day. I spent 10 days (because I was taken out, I was meant to have a month) riding from Long Beach New York to Long Beach Cali. After spending a day or so at home recovering I headed up to Auckland to catch up with mates. The first night I was sleeping on a couch which had a lip underneath where I had my glass of what. During the night my phone fell of the couch, under the seat and dropped into the glass of water. Now the space under the couch was just a bit higher than the glass of water and it was about 20 cm under the couch, so how it got in there I have no idea. The glass was also angled in so the phone only got part way into the glass, but there was just enough water in the glass to wet the bottom 5mm of my phone, which it turns out is enough to completely ruin it. Sad thing was I was going to take all my photos off that day, and the last time I had backed it up was day 2 into my trip so I lost the entire trips worth of photos. I have taken the phone into 5 different places to try and recover the photos with no luck!
It was the day before Christmas,
and all through the street,
not a person was talking -
not even a peep!
For there on the ground lay my new Samsung phone,
shattered and smashed straight through to the bone.
A case it had worn, but for a week,
that protected the object from cuts that were deep.
But alas it had not been worn on that day,
due to the party and my own vanity.
"It didn't match my dress," I cried aloud
as I snatched up the mess and ferociously scowled.
I feel like the commuter case would best suit my needs!
My friend dropped a can of baked beans on it when putting it in my bag and the screen smashed..she can't afford to repair it so its a tad awkward haha. all forgiven tho! after all she is my best friend!
My friend dropped a can of baked beans on it when putting it in my bag and the screen smashed..she can't afford to repair it so its a tad awkward haha. all forgiven tho! after all she is my best friend!
I would want the commuter wallet case so that way i can store my cards in it! :D
Im still using my Nokia that I have had since 2006 I has been trough some tough times Its been drop, lost, tossed, submerged, crushed and run over. there is not a single bit of the original shell left the phone is held together with electrical tape and the phone has forgotten nearly all of it's functions . The ear speaker its broken so all calls have to be one speaker phone the cameras have fallen out the key pad its taped on the volume only goes down and on top of that I am 21 and i have never owned a smart phone all my friends make fun of my poor phone and i dont even know how to really use one :'( . If i could win this new phone it would be soo awesome I would finally have a good phone that i could be proud of owning and I would be able to learn how to use a smart phone and all of the thing that they can do. if I did win I would need the toughest case you have got for it :P
Don't forget to let us know what case we need to send the luck winner!!!
I honestly can't seem to keep a phone healthy for more than a couple of months.
Currently broken on my desk I have:
- Samsung Galaxy S3 - broken screen (thanks dog!!), broken audio jack and battery that only lasted 12-15 hours not being used.
- Samsung Galaxy Y - battery died
- Vodafone keypad phone - pretty solid but got crushed by a car after it fell out my door in the driveway.
- iPhone 4s - broken screen after I dropped it on tiles.
...and about 9 various chargers, most of them with the lead chewed off (thanks cat!!).
...oh and in the box under my desk? 6 other phones of varying conditions, none of them working and none of them older than 4 years.
If I won I'd take the OtterBox Defender Case in Glacier. Cheers Mighty Ape!
My daughter and my phone don't go well together. she was in the bathroom with my phone. It ended up in water and now I cannot open my phone, the touch screen no longer works so can't get into phone as cannot enter password. So I am in need of a new phone with an otterbox defender case in blue to protect my phone from my daughter....
I just recently dammaged my phone i was out fishing with one of the boys on his jetski i had just caught a fish and got in on the ski cut it to bleed out then it slipped out my hand and back in the water it done a big circle around the ski and came just close enough to net it so i grabbed the net and reached over and the ski tipped i had the net in one hand and rod in the other but forgot i had taken my phone out for the ride was i good day of fishing but my phone is no longer working due to water damage if i won this i would like the OtterBox Commuter Case for Samsung Galaxy S6 - Casual Blue Thanks all the best to everyone
This story involves car keys and phone. I got out of my car. Put keys and phone in pocket. Phone rang. Pulled phone out of pocket which somehow attached itself to keys. Keys went flying which I attempted to catch in the same hand I hand the phone. Dropped keys and phone which happily both bounced twice and through the grill of street drain. Once I managed to retrive them after a very helpful coucil man, the keys still worked. The phone wasn't quite so lucky. So now I'm back to my original cell phone from about 4 years ago. Not ideal.........
Forgot to mention that probably any OtterBox cover would have helped saving my now deceased phone.
I’ve had my Sony Xperia for about 3 years now. The day I bought it, I also bought a protective case for it, I look at the new cases these days and mine just seems like a flimsy piece of plastic-haha, and for the first few weeks I was very careful with the handling of my new closest friend. After a while the inevitable happened, it fell, approximately 1m from my pocket onto a concrete driveway. I was mortified, dread ran through my entire body, starting from my chest and pulsing through my body because I was sure that I had just smashed my new phone. Fortunately, that little piece of plastic (case) had done well and protected my precious new friend. Thus began 3 years of a long friendship filled with good memories, dark days and funny moments. Throughout our friendship, there were multiple times where my brother in arms was dropped and I had that feeling of dread, however, each time I retrieved my fallen comrade, he would surprise me by having only a small dent in the corners of the phone or a small scratch on his face. The body armour, which seemed like a trivial piece of plastic, exceeded my wildest expectations and has done a great job of protecting my comrade. It took the most damage during our long relationship and slowly began to lose pieces and start breaking. Now it actually is a useless accessory, but is kept on due to the great job it has performed. As time went by, I got more and more comfortable when I dropped it as each time it would be fine, even when it got hit by a rogue wave, it was in my pocket, and it still managed to function properly. I began to believe that we would never be separated as the resilience of my old friend was second only to the impenetrable skin of the man of steel himself. What I didn’t notice was that the years of trauma had done internal damage to my comrade. Slowly internal processes began to creep in, thought process began to get sluggish, memory was lost and energy levels would decrease at alarming rates. I did not want to accept it, but one day, I dropped him once more, with a sharp crack, the case and phone became two separate pieces. All the damage seemed superficial and even then it was only minor, however the damage to his psyche was so extensive and this was the final straw. After the fall nothing would be the same again, he turned on but was too volatile and unpredictable to be trusted with the life and death responsibilities he once was. What was once a great phone and a proficient ally, now a shell of his former self, never to be used again. My brother in arm was given a hero’s funeral and honoured by entering the famous ‘Hall of Phones’, whose only occupant is my first comrade, a Nokia 6121. A 21 gun salute was performed as was The Last Post as he was laid to rest. Forever lost, but never forgotten. He will be sorely missed, but we must celebrate his life and the good times had during his long and illustrious career as my best Smartphone. I am currently using my work phone which is an S3 mini. It is not the same and will never replace my fallen brother.
If the powers at be see fit to give me a new partner, I would hope that he was capable of honouring the memory of my fallen comrade and clad in the ‘Otterbox Symmetry- Gridlock’ battle armour. Simple and tough-least we forget.
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I had just been through hell having major surgery on my spine - I'd just returned home from hospital after having my l4-l5 disk replaced with a metal one and had only been home for 2 days. It was a freakishly cold day for early February and despite the weather, my wife decided it would be a good time to take our toddler to the park so I could get some rest. I had a really stupid idea... I had a thirst for a nice hot cup of coffee so made the long slow journey downstairs to the kitchen to arrange a mug of the tasty beverage with the full intention of returning to bed to consume it. I planned everything out including taking my phone with me for entertainment whilst the jug boiled. First part of the mission was complete! Coffee in one hand, phone in the other I began the return trip at a snail's pace taking care not to spill my hot cup of Java.
Steps 1 to 12 went perfectly and without incident until the moment that I lifted my foot toward the unlucky 13th step.
It was slight... ever so slight...
But it was enough that when my toes clipped that fateful step, my balance was destroyed and I began to teeter - first fo ward, and then as I over corrected, backwards down the stairs head over heels, coffee flying up through the air, phone death gripped in my hand and accelerating with me at light speed before everything turned black.
I awoke some moments later upside down with my empty coffee mug resting uncomfortably in my groin and it's earlier contents saturating my phone - at first I was too afraid and too pained to move. As the minutes ticked by horrifying thoughts of possible internal damage from the fall began to emerge - will I be able to walk? Will this pain ever cease? Will this coffee stain ever be removed from the freshly painted wall/stairs carpet/favorite boxers???
Then it hit me like a ton of turd hitting a turbine...
MY ONLY LIFELINE WAS NOW DRENCHED IN COFFEE AND IS AWKWARDLY STUCK BENEATH MY CRUMPLED FRAME!?!
How could I save myself without the use of my phone?! Gingerly I tested my limbs and the small amount of ability I had to move them. Slowly I returned to a sitting position and looked at my once beautiful Galaxy S4. It was a sad sad sight - an OtterBox case could have prevented all this mess and destruction and yet I had too much pride to use common sense and buy one before this episode occurred. Now I have a coffee resistant S5 however I know that the only real way to protect it is to get one of your cases - the black defender would be the most likely idiot resistant one I imagine. The S6 is a nice phone but even with one of your wicked cases I bet it could still be destroyed in my hands - instagram pic above...
I was at the gym one night with my week old iPhone 6. I place it underneath the bench (along with my drink bottle) for safekeeping but little did I know, it was the pivot point for inclining/declining the bench. As I decline the bench to switch exercises, i feel a slight resistance and hear some faint cracking. Thinking it was the bench itself, I continued until it was nearly flat but it never quite reached a full 180 degrees, so I thought it may have been my drink bottle so I pull down a bit more until I saw light reflecting from the floor. I inspected it, only to find it was my no longer pristine condition iphone 6. The Touch ID home button was barely in place and was no longer working. With cracks all the way up the screen and shards falling out as each day progresses, i was still grateful it was still working. Sortof.
If I had a otter box case, it would definitely be a symmetry. I love the simplicity as well as the protection it provides (:
I forked mine!
Back when smart phones had only been available to people who lived anywhere but Nz.
I was lucky enough to secure through a relative a samsung Galexy wave 2, direct from the Uk.
It was network free had all the bells and whistles,
and cost me a ton.
I had had it for about a calendar month and used to play with it like it was part of my anatomy.
(I was worried I may go blind)
I even took it to work with me, and one day after unloading some freight off of a truck I couldnt find it.
After a few practice hakas and every pocket checked twice I went for a wander round the warehouse.
I found it laying on the concrete, like a victim of some crime all prostrate and helpless.
At first I thought it was ok. It looked fine!
It wasnt, the 6tonne forklift had renderd the 6x3 inch screen to a frosted glass.
The sd card was fine so I manged to save all my
selfies.
As you can probably tell I am suited to a defender.
But dont imagine it would survive me forking the hell out of it.
I had been given a new smartphone for my birthday and hadn't been using it because I hadn't had a chance to buy a case. My old phone had stopped working and I was doing without a phone for a couple of days. Then my dog went missing, he runs away occasionally and my mum and I had to go out walking around calling to him. I put my SIM card into my new phone and took it with me because that is the phone number on my dog's collar. We had been searching for him for hours and had just about given up when I got a call that someone had found him in their garden. I ran to go and pick him up and my brand new phone fell out of my pocket and into the gutter. The top part of the screen went sort of fuzzy the touch screen is a bit hit and miss and now it often just turns off for no reason and it doesn't receive some peoples' texts or make calls properly but it was still worth it because I got my dog back.
I would like the melon pop case.
My story
Around 6 years ago i was getting into an elevator while checking my phone. I bumped my arm on the door frame, knocking the phone from my hands, where it proceeded it to fall down the gap between the elevator door and the floor.
second time i dropped a phone again. It flew out of my hand while on a second floor balcony at my friend's apartment. Flew, it was like someone pulled it out of my hand in middle of conversation. I rushed down to rescue it, sure that it was going to be destroyed. My aunt was still on the line wondering what that large sound was and if I was okay. Barely a scratch. I kept on using my Nokia 3310 and continued conversation. It stopped working within a week or so on after I dropped it .
Once again, within 1 week of receiving my iPhone 4, it slipped out of my hands, hit the ground hard facing screen. And i could never use it again.
Look forward for a new phone that I am ready to take care of and put a full stop on my phone breaking story.
It was my birthday on the 7th of May, I was at work, and I went to quickly answer a birthday text from my best friend when my caseless s4 flew out of my hand and landed face first on the concrete floor. Next minute, the screen was cracked and the digitizer behind was half dead. I gave it a playful whack to see if I could improve the amount of screen I could see, and broke it even more resulting in a completely broken and dead screen. The phone seemed to still be working fine though, and I could hear birthday messages coming through that I'm not going to be able to ever see! If I was to win, I would choose the purple amythest defender case. Check out my instagram @brittanybennenbroek to see a pic of my poor wee phone!
My story:
I was on a plane back from Australia last year where I had been for a work visit, you know one of those days where you get up at 3am to catch the 6am flight to Sydney, work all day in Sydney, then catch the 6.40pm flight back to Auckland...
There was bad weather, and the flight back was delayed by 2 hrs, which meant ETA into Auckland was now 2am... But the plane finally took off...
The ride back was pretty rough through the storm, but at one point I needed to go to the bathroom. I'd been doing some work on my work phone (safely in flight mode I might add) and had it in my shirt pocket...
I picked a calm moment during the plane ride to go to the bathroom, and as I flushed the toilet on the plane, turbulence hit... I stumbled... work phone fell out of my pocket into the toilet as it was flushing...
bye bye phone... I wish I could show you a pic of it, but it disappeared into the Tasman sea somewhere (I imagine), or the plane's holding tanks (possible)...
I would like the black otterbox defender case if I win.
Thanks for the competition.
One part lovely daughter + Samsung phone + charger = Jammed port
One part adored son + ground = Bouncy phone
One part mum + couch + pirouette = Sad dad
S6 + Black Otterbox Defender Case = Happy Dad
Save my hard earned money to get myself a new phone, only to drop it while help my dad get stuff out of the car! Cracked screens make phones hard to use!
The Black Otterbox Defender Case should help defeat my natural ability to drop expensive things.
After much scoping out of phones and plans I had my brand new S4 for two days, when after a long day as a stage hand at my sons drama performance I whipped it out of my back pocket, not realising how much larger it was than my old phone and it tumbled in slo-mo down on to the road outside the theatre, face down, resulting in a giant spidery crack across the left of the screen - I hadn't had time to get a case. I cried!!!!!! My husband laughed his ass off!! And I cried a bit more. to add insult to injury, it is going to cost $350 to replace the screen....hubby says I could get a cheap $99 smart phone instead!! NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! If I win, im going to grab the Melon-pop otterbox case https://www.mightyape.co.nz/product/OtterBox-Symmetry-Case-for-Samsung-Galaxy-S6-Melon-Pop/23010019 because it is cute as hell!!!
Wendy
it was 48 hours before the concert i had waited months for. the greatest concert of my life so far. excitement was setting in, not only was i going to be watching the show from side of stage, i was *meeting the artist*.
i had my bags all packed for an awesome weekend, and i decided to leave my camera behind. since i had my phone, i thought i wouldn't need it.
i was walking to the train station and that's when it happened. i pulled my phone out of my purse to check the time, like i had done thousands of times before. only this time, i somehow lost my grip and it landed face down on the concrete. the impact cracked the LED glass, so it turned on, but didn't light up. the top screen didn't even have a scratch! in that moment, i would have loved to only have smashed the top glass, then at least i could still have used it for photos at the show.
$300 later and it is still being fixed, so needless to say, winning a new phone *and* a case would definitely make my wallet happier.
i'd love the melon pop symmetry case if i won!
So it happened not so long ago, I had woken up early and was on my way heading to class. I had my phone in my jumpers front pocket and a pair of headphones attached to it. Being the clumsy and awkward person I am, I decided avoid other humans and walk the long way round to class.
In doing so, the long way round involved much heavier doors and larger handles. As I approached the door to open it my headphones had wrapped around it the large door handles and upon pulling open the door, my phone flew out of my pocket and proceeded to fall two flights of stairs.
Upon closer inspection my phones screen had completely smashed and there was a large scratch and dent on two corners of the phone. The phone turns on but alas I have a phone that is near impossible to see and read messages.
If I had a new Samsung Galaxy S6 I feel that the OtterBox Commuter Case for Samsung Galaxy S6 - Black would be best as it has a sleek colour and will actually provide some sort of protection from such events as falling two flights of stairs.
Argued with my boyfriend about when to clean out the gutters. I said now. He said next week.
That rainy day I had the window behind me slightly ajar for fresh air while studying, and I noticed a big gust of wind blow a huge bunch of leaves off the tree in our garden.
I spun around to start the video app on my camera to film it - PROOF that there were still HEAPS of leaves that could block up the gutters! In doing so, my phone slid out of both of my hands, clunked into the window, dropped down onto the brick windowsill (outside!) and bounced into a muddy, dirty flowerpot that was full of rainwater.
That grand purple amethyst otterbox defender case would work pretty well in that situation!
(Now, I don't have the proof I needed, but I will just clean the gutters myself..... #winning!)
It was a cold day, with a wind thay cut to the bone amd fog all around (most likely due to working in a -18 degree freezer). I was up a ladder organizing the frozen products to be despatched that morning and listening to a variety of anime theme songs on my Galaxy S3 when my boss came in. She said that someone was here to pick up an order (that had not been put through the system, and as such was news to me). I acquiesed to the request to change my plans and pick it there and then. While my boss left the customer proceeded to stand in the freezer door and watch me without saying anything. Feeling self conscious I proceeded to get my phone out of my pocket to turn my music off. Given that I was wearing double layered gloves and up a ladder this was not my best call. As the phone was exiting my pocket my grip waned and I watched in horror as it fell to the frozen concrete floor below, all while the customer stood there watching silently. When I picked it up the corner was marred and the screen presented a ghostly flickering black and purple haze. C'est la vie.
As to which OtterBox would save me from this I think surprises are best.
This story could be a sign that I'm just not meant to have an iPhone (or that I'm meant to have a Samsung!!)
It had been a super long and tiring week having just attended a family funeral the day before and we were finally pulling down the marquee and getting the house back to normal. Anyway my sister had just arrived to pass on her condolences and brought a pot plant to give to the family. We were chatting away when suddenly my new iPhone 6 given to me as a Christmas present from my loving partner that had managed to stay unscathed from my 1 year old and 3 year old boys using it to watch Raa Raa the noisy lion decided it didn't want to stay in my pocket any more and dropped in front of my eyes onto the footpath below. But it didn't stop there, if continued to slide screen down across the footpath and into the gutter
Although in a pretty expensive case the concrete path was no match for the phones screen which had shattered as well as other scrapes on the sides of the phone. I was gutted to say the least bit to this day the phone is still working though it now has an impressive spiderweb effect on the screen.
And now to really put the nail in the iphone coffin ...
We decided to go to Church last Sunday to support my mother in law for her first Sunday at Church without her husband and because it was Mother's Day - we made it through the service (although I couldn't understand a word of it as it was in Samoan) and we had got to the finishing up part where everyone was out in the carpet taking photos of all the mothers and everyone in their Sunday bests :) My partner has an iPhone 5 and although my iPhone 6 was damaged it still takes better photos than the i5 so he asked to use my phone to take the photos and passed me his iphone5. Everything was going to plan and we were all getting in our cars to head back to my mother in laws for a big KFC lunch to finish the day. I had to put the kids in the car so put my partners phone on the roof of the car while I buckled them in. We all hopped in the car and headed on our way. About 5 minutes down the road I suddenly asked my partner if I had given him back his phone (having forgot I put it on the roof) - he said no so I started ringing it - it was of course on silent (due to not wanting to interrupt the church service) we couldn't find it in the car so headed back to the church carpark - no luck there.
Then I had a brain flash and remembered I put it on the roof of the car. We got back in the car and started panning the road in hopes of finding it in the gutter as we were driving past - it was still ringing and nobody was answering it so we were hopeful. Suddenly up ahead I saw a little black object in the middle of our lane - I was sure it was the phone so I yelled to my partner "I think that's your phone!" All of a sudden we felt a small bump under our tyres... My partner had ran over his own phone :(
In a nervous/I can't believe what I just done/ I think I'm gonna cry kind of voice my partner started laughing and repeating "you just made me run over my own phone!"
We did a u-turn to drive past the object and confirmed it was definitely a phone and then did another u-turn to drive up to it. I hopped out of the car and picked up the phone - it was munted - the screen COMPLETELY shattered, bits falling off on the front and back - but miraculously still working.
It's nearly impossible to see what you are doing on the screen and have no idea how long it's going to last before it dies completely or before we slice our fingers on the screen!
In both circumstances our pain and distress could have all been avoided if only we had of used a heavy duty case like the OtterBox - a purple amethyst one would be awesome!!!!
Kelly
I Fell in the shark tank while still in my work uniform while constructing the shark cage :( I frantically clawed my way out of the water because I just remembered that my phone was still in my pocket! Oh also there's some 24 big sharks in the tank. Phone didn't survived :(
Rain + Phone = phone dropping in big muddy puddle, enough said (btw https://www.mightyape.co.nz/product/OtterBox-Defender-Case-for-Samsung-Galaxy-S6-Black/23009923 )
As if being caught in the rain isn't bad enough...
Playing games in the bathroom after a night of bowel moving curry and beer.
Dropped in the bowl before the flush. Destroyed and coated
I dropped my Nokia Fold yesterday. The back flew off and the battery bounced out. I snapped it all back together and it booted up fine :(
I like the blue amethyst Otter Box, but alas - it doesn't fit the Nokia Fold. Plz halp!
I feel for what ever you dropped your Nokia on Fraser...
Arrived in Fiji on Monday with a reef snorkeling trip booked for Tuesday morning. Currently have an S5 so was super excited to take it snorkeling with me to capture all the beautiful fishies and coral. Jumped in the water phone in hand, went to take an underwater selfie with the marine life but na. Camera had other ideas. All photos were blurred and warped and I realised that when I dropped my phone a few days ago I had cracked the outside of the camera then when taking it to see Nemo, water crept into the crack and filled the lens area with water. It's been two days and the camera still isn't working. So I've had to spend my week in Fiji with no camera. It is beyond lame. If I had an otter case when I dropped it rather than a $2 shop case this wouldn't have happened and I would be posting amazing Fiji pictures on Facebook to make everyone jealous. Now nobody knows how much of a good time I'm having. Please give me a new phone and proper otter phone case to cure my heartbreak and prevent this from happening again
Rushing to get my 5 year old daughter strapped in her car seat and off to school i put my phone on the roof of the car... drove off didn't remember... accelerated down the road and tink bang bonk. Looked up to see my almost brand new samsung S4 bounce down the back of the car and then get run over by a cattle truck. My daughter learnt a few new words that day!!!
I think a new phone with a nice sturdy defender case would be much better for my daughter's vocabulary!!
One night I went to the fish and chip shop to buy tea and they gave me a little plastic container of tomato sauce with it. I had the tea and forgot about the sauce in my bag. A few days later I had both my daughters and my mobiles in my handbag. I took my phone out because it was ringing and it was covered in sauce and so was my daughters. Hers worked but no one could hear her when she spoke whereas mine didn't work at all. Took both phones to AMI to claim insurance and the agent just about fell off her seat laughing. She had never heard of anyone saucing her phones before. Both phones had to be replaced.
Also, adding on to my sad fiji story above, this is the case I would very much like to have with the new S6....
https://m.mightyape.co.nz/product/OtterBox-Symmetry-Case-for-Samsung-Galaxy-S6-Glacier/23009938
https://instagram.com/p/2pwvzwQo0D/
nothing exciting about my story - was at work (secondary teaching) and setting up for athletics day when my phone fell out of my pocket and smashed on concrete....still using it several months later with sellotape holding the shattered screen together (provides amusement for all the girls I teach with their latest fancy phones) Definitely wouldn't happen again if I had the Otterbox Defender in Black on my phone!!
nothing exciting about my story - was at work (secondary teaching) and setting up for athletics day when my phone fell out of my pocket and smashed on concrete....still using it several months later with sellotape holding the shattered screen together (provides amusement for all the girls I teach with their latest fancy phones) Definitely wouldn't happen again if I had the Otterbox Defender in Black on my phone!!
i was GOING to drop my phone, just to set up a decent story for this competition...
but then my phone got in first, and DROPPED ME!
i should have been suspicious when my phone asked me to meet in a neutral location. it said it wanted to see other people. it said it wasn't me, it was it (although it did say it was challenged by my continually putting it in peril for free phone and case giveaways, and that it didn't feel I was cleaning my share of the bathroom). all the usual story.
anyway - upshot is I now need a new phone and a protective case FOR MY HEART.
I reckon an otterbox defender in whatever the brightest colour scheme available would do the trick.
WHAT CAN I SAY it was the sadist time of my life, when I dropped my Samsung 4 phone and cracked the screen. I was walking outside from the back door and I was not thinking properly I went to put my phone in my pocket of my jeans and of course the jeans are tight I tried to squeese my phone in the pocket and of course it didn't go in my pocket at all and it fell to the concrete and my screen was cracked really bad. I so missed my phone I turned it on to see if it still went but it didnt
Jumping around on the trampoline doing some flips and tricks was all fun until I put my hand in my pocket to find my phone had gone. Mid flip the phone must have flung out of my pocket and under the tramp and on to the concrete below. I managed to get under to retrieve the phone to find it had not broken. As I was climbing up phone in hand I managed to drop it again back on to the concrete. This time ending the phones screen life by sending a spider Web of cracks over the screen. If only I had, had an Symmetry Glacier otter box case to keep it looking nice and to protect my device non of this would have happened.
I have smashed my iphone 5C screen 3 times in a month (once was my little 13mo daughter, the other two times was pure me). Over getting it fixed so please give me the new phone!
I like the look of this Otterbox case by the way, if I was keeping my iphone 5C
https://www.mightyape.co.nz/product/Otterbox-Defender-Case-for-iPhone-5c-Black/21730882
But of course if I was going to win the Samsung I would need a snazzy Otterbox S6 case :D
My Samsung Galaxy s5 D: screen got smashed when my brother accidently put weight on it while sleeping. He was playing call of duty all night with my phone when he said he coudnt even remember what happened because he was to sleepy, then next thing in the morning i find my samsung galaxy s5's screen smashed T_T. i felt really numbed because its my best friend
As a junior netball coach I was running late for practice, the girls were all waiting on the court after school but I really needed to head to the bathroom having just come from a long drive. I head off to the toilet, phone in back pocket, all goes well... flushing the toilet and pulling up the pants situation when I feel something drop out of my back pocket.
I quickly turn around to see my HTC phone splash and begin heading down the S bend of the toilet with the power of the flush.
With no other choice I dive in with my hand grab my phone and pull it out, dripping wet with girls waiting I rush outside to pull it to pieces whilst instructing them to get throwing balls around with each other as they look at me with those eyes of "omg what is she doing" and "is she crazy" as my phone now lays in pieces on the concrete netball court.
Drying out in the sun I think there may be hope for it.. until... yep HAIL. There was no coming back :(
It was a happy time between friends. Standing outside the mall shooting the breeze and cracking jokes. I slid my brand new smart phone in to my back pocket and carried on laughing and banteringbwith my pals. The jokes got wild and we were clutching our sides with raucous laughter. Unfortunately i lost control of myself and during a massive laughing fit i crapped my pants. It flooded my jeans and my new phone got inundated with a nasty surprise. It shorted out the whole thing and not only did i have to replace my jeans and underwear but my phone too.
Okay so, I've had the same Samsung S3 mini for about three years now, my parents cant afford to buy me a new phone because (obviously) a big lack of $$ and all that at the moment. The phone has had a real bashing, it's in horrible condition. It's been cracked over three times and right now the screen has large cracks throughout. The first time I cracked it was an unintentional throw. The second time was an unintentional drop, and the third time was an unintentional fling across the ground. I can get the screen fixed quite cheap but all that throwing around has messed it up. It doesn't send or receive messages well, it drops out of range/wifi, the lock button doesn't work and it will just unexpectedly restart multiple times throughout the day which can drain the battery by 10%. I reaaaaaally could go for this new phone!! Also, it basically crapped itself the other day. i was sending a text and it wouldn't send. i would usually just restart the phone, but due to the button where you turn it off not working, I just crashed it with the hope of turning it back on.. Hasn't turned on ever since. Won't even charge :'( it has now been like three days without this phone, but GUESS WHAT! now i have an even worse phone! it's a motorola defy with a completely shattered screen, about 6-8 years old, it is the laggiest thing i have ever laid my hands on, it doesn't work with wifi well at all, it dies in about 10 minutes, when you're going to send a text you can't see what you're typing because the words don't show up, when you unlock it sometimes the screen blacks out the moment it's unlocked (and then it'll do this about ten times in a row...) and those are just a small handful of its vast range of faults. it is absoloutely horrible to type on. SAVE ME MIGHTY APE, #INEEDOTTERBOX sooooOOOOOOOOO BAD! And if I do possibly win (this is v exciting I've never been in the draw for something) I would totally go for the melon pop case, so cute. Thaaaannkkksss heaps for reading and I hope I can possibly maybe hopefully win! :)))
So my phone phone goes OK but my better half could not find her phone, we had to drive about 10k back to where she was doing dog training in the dark and try and find the phone via ringing it, we found it stomped into the mud by a dog. Needless to say the phone doesn't run to good now, the phone thinks its charging when not plugged in, needs charging a couple of times a day and locks up regularly :-( . an otter box for a galaxy S5 would be good for for my wee man to chew on and protect her next phone.
So I was at a work Christmas function, everyone was getting pretty rowdy and I wound up in town with no recollection of getting there. I decided to call it a night and ordered a cab. We pulled up outside my house, and as I was getting out of the car I somehow managed to fall to the curb. I had my phone in my hand, and as I fell it put my hand out to save myself. Unfortunately my phone didn't fare so well... It was a work phone so I had to pay for the screen to be fixed.
If that wasn't bad enough, at the previous years Christmas party I lost my phone all together and woke up in the hospital! So this year I will be counting on my gridlock symmetry otterbox case to keep my new s6 safe!
I don't have a photo of the damage, but I could upload a pic of the invoice for the repair?
So I took my daughter to the Butterfly enclosure at Otago Museum and managed to drop my iPhone 3s (yeah i know it was old - but it was still a decent phone). I was carrying it in my hand, it was so humid in there I started to sweat. My hands particulary and it slipped out and tumbled down a flight of concrete stairs. I didn't notice till a wee fella came up to me and gave it back. There was absoutely no damage - on the outside, can't say the same about the inside. It wouldnt accept a charge and the home button wouldn't work. So I went online and ordered a new iPhone. When it arrived 3 days later I realised I didnt have the right sized sim card. So online I went again. A week later my new sim card arrived but opps the sim card tray had gone missing. So again online I went - the courier lost the sim card tray. It took nearly 4 weeks for me to have a functioning phone. Next time (and there better not be a next time) i'll just go the the shop my self. Why go online you ask, well the phone was on sale - such a good buy. I really wanted the Samsung S5/6 but couldn't afford it. But after all the hassles i should have just sucked it up.
So I was at work, It was time for my 15 minute break. About 3/4 through my body decided it need to loose some extra weight, not wanting to be late back from my break I took my cell phone into the bathroom with me to keep an eye on the time. As I finished my *ahem* business I started to heada back to work but I was doing so my phone slipped out of my freshly washed hands and hit the floor, before I new what had happened I had stood on it with my Size 13 steel toe boots...
Needless to say R.I.P phone.
I am still paying the phone off to this day. But I bet that If I had the snazzy OtterBox Commuter case for my phone it would have survived the unfortunate series of events that led to its untimely demise; and I would not be in this mess.
I guess ist no stranger tradition than any other. Every St. Patrick's Day at St. Patrick's College Silverstream, every Yr13 student runs around the school in costume, now it was my turn.
I had been convinced that my costume was a good idea, which it was. It was festive, read: green, and i did win the costume contest that day. Who wouldn't dressed as the riddler.
The race is about to start. Costumes feeling abit warm but it cant be worse than my friends dressed like frenchmen or seal team 6. That wen i realize i have my phone. Looking back on it now I could.have kust handed it to a teacher or do 12 other things but no, in all my wisdome i though "breast pocket. Solid."
I dont even get round the first corner when my phone flys out of the pocket with an iron of question mark. Of course i dont know til the race is over and my friend walks up to me with a iphone 4 with a shattered screen.
A proper real Phone case, like say an Otterbox, would have come in handy that day.
Otterbox should be a standard issue with every phone.
When my daughter was younger I was helping her on the toilet, you can guess what happen, out falls my good old Nokia 5120.
I quickly fished it out of the toilet, run if under clean water. Into the ice cream container with rice and into the hot water cupboard.
One week later, the phone was back working, you couldn't kill a Nokia 5120 if you tried.
I'M WRITINGTHIS IN CAPS SO THAT IT STANDS OUT. IT ALL STARTED WHEN I DECIDED TO PICK SKATEBOARDING BACK UP. I GOT OVER CONFIDENT TOO FAST AND WHILE KICKFLIPPING UP A KURB BROKE MY ANKLE. ANYWAY I WAS CHILLING AT HOME ON THE COUCH IN MY FAT PANTS (CRAPPY POCKETS) AND FELT THIRSTY. THE TRIP FROM THE COUCH TO THE KITCHEN IS A SMALL ONE SO WHY USE THE CRUTCHES WHEN YOU CAN HOP. ON MY FIRST HOP I WATCHED IN SLOWMOTION AND HORROR AS MY PHONE JUMPED OUTTA MY POCKET ONTO THE TILE FLOOR. NEEDLESS TO SAY MY WORST FEAR CAME TRUE. THE SCREEN WAS SMASHED. WITH WEEKS OFF WORK UNABLE TO MAKE MONEY TO REPLACE IT
Phone fell off the top of the car when I drove onto the motorway and survived in the case! But then I went for a bike ride and dropped it face down when I got to my destination and smashed the screen and LCD behind it!
https://www.mightyape.co.nz/product/OtterBox-Symmetry-Case-for-Samsung-Galaxy-S6-Glacier/23009938
I had recently bought myself a new and shiny iPhone 6. I was in the city with some friends on Auckland Anniversary and was walking down Queen Street. It was raining rather heavily and we had to seek shelter under the Whitcoulls store to wait. Out of nowhere a damp, humongous Golden Retriever emerged from the sheltered crowds and brushed past me, knocking my phone out of my hand and onto the cold, hard ground below. The dog walked off, but how could I be angry at a dog? I picked the phone up, feeling embarrassed and found my screen cracked in the centre and in the right hand corner also. I could almost feel my heart stop, I could see my hard earn cash going down the drain. If only I had an Otto Defender
I had recently bought myself a new and shiny iPhone 6. I was in the city with some friends on Auckland Anniversary and was walking down Queen Street. It was raining rather heavily and we had to seek shelter under the Whitcoulls store to wait. Out of nowhere a damp, humongous Golden Retriever emerged from the sheltered crowds and brushed past me, knocking my phone out of my hand and onto the cold, hard ground below. The dog walked off, but how could I be angry at a dog? I picked the phone up, feeling embarrassed and found my screen cracked in the centre and in the right hand corner also. I could almost feel my heart stop, I could see my hard earn cash going down the drain. If only I had an Otterbox Defender
For reasons that shall soon be come clear I can not add a photo to my story (well I could but it would be a very boring photo).
I have not had many phones in my life, I was that strange teenager who avoided a phone until one was thrust upon me by my friends at the age of 17 (said friends who were sick of having to use the ancient technology know as a landline). But this is not the story of that phone. When NZ got rid of the CDMA network I was forced to abandon my trusty companion and update, I put it off for as long as I could until finally I got myself a shiny new (rather crud compared to today's phones) smartphone.
My smartphone was great, I listened to music one it, I took photos of my cat, I forgot to reply to my friends texts with it, I called in sick to work on it etc etc.
But fate had other plans for my overpriced MP3 player. The day was sunny, the birds were chirping... The birds were squawking... The birds were seagulls. I was on a Boat (the interislander to be exact). I hate boats, I get seasick just thinking about boats.
To try and settle my nausea I had stepped outside to get some air. I was admiring the distant horizon when I thought to myself "I should take a photo of that... Then I can send it to mum and prove I do spend time outside sometimes". I pulled my phone out, I pointed it at the horizon and it was at this point someone bumped into me. I felt the grip on my phone give way, time slowed down and I watched my phone plummet towards the ground. I knew there was no hope, I knew as soon as it hit the ground the screen would be broken, I braced myself for this tragic event and then the phone impacted with the ground...
The phone bounced...
I heard a splash.
I dropped my phone in the ocean.
I don't know if a Purple Amethyst otterbox case would have stopped my phone falling in the ocean, but it least it would have looked stylish when it did.
My oppo find 7a decided to fall out of my pocket and perfectly position itself between the van seat and door. I went inside and when i came back i found my phone bent and smashed as i had closed the door on it. Worst Friday 13th of march in my life :(
I had an iPhone 6.
It was a normal day. Go to work, come home, dinner, bed. The usual. Well this day I woke up a little bit late. I did the quick toast in the toaster, quick shower and out the door thing so I could get to work as fast as possible.
I was half way to work when I thought I should call the boss, tell him I'd be 10 minutes late. Where is my phone?!
Remembering back to when I left, in a rush. Walked out onto the drive way, keys in one hand, wallet and phone in the other, toast in mouth.
Toast falls onto ground, put phone and wallet on roof of car, pick up toast, drive to work.
Turns out the phone had held on to the roof long enough to make it onto the road but wallet had fallen off onto the driveway.
Looks like a couple of vehicles had gotten to it... To make it all better, it was the work phone.
#INEEROTTERBOX @Mighty.Ape @camdogyo
I had an iPhone 6.
It was a normal day. Go to work, come home, dinner, bed. The usual. Well this day I woke up a little bit late. I did the quick toast in the toaster, quick shower and out the door thing so I could get to work as fast as possible.
I was half way to work when I thought I should call the boss, tell him I'd be 10 minutes late. Where is my phone?!
Remembering back to when I left, in a rush. Walked out onto the drive way, keys in one hand, wallet and phone in the other, toast in mouth.
Toast falls onto ground, put phone and wallet on roof of car, pick up toast, drive to work.
Turns out the phone had held on to the roof long enough to make it onto the road but wallet had fallen off onto the driveway.
Looks like a couple of vehicles had gotten to it... To make it all better, it was the work phone. If only I had an Otterbox Defender!!
#INEEROTTERBOX @Mighty.Ape @camdogyo
My story is pretty plain.
I was getting up late in the night to get a rink of water. All I had on me was my iphone. I turned on the torch as I walked to the kitchen, then out of nowhere the phone slipped out of my hands like soap and cracked on the ground.
The screen was gone for good but it still seemed to turn on.
The repair for the phone wasnt worth it so I had to downgrade. :(
That was also the one time I didnt bother putting the case on it. If only I had a Otterbox Defender :P
had a great night out in town after a long time. got my brother to pick me up at 4 in the morning. as i was getting out of the car, Bang!!!!!
My samsung galaxy S5 drops out of my pockets and smashes on the concrete. the phone doesn't work anymore. #HappyDays *sarcasm*
also to poor to buy a new one :(
if i won i would love to have OtterBox Commuter Case for Samsung Galaxy S6 - Black.
#INEEDROTTERBOX @Mighty.Ape @dilen20
https://instagram.com/p/2znvehQpu4/
Going back, I had not much cared for smartphones (more important things to spend money on, like games), I had owned a CDMA phone up until they shut it off then traded it in and got the cheapest phone i could. About 2 months ago I finally decided to splurge and buy an iPhone. The guy at the store helped me set it up and after explaining it to me I realised what I was actually missing and the power I had in my hand. Unfortunately on my way back to my car (it was around 8pm on a late night at the mall) I was approached by 2 men who proceeded to beat me up and take the phone (it was probably silly of me to be walking in the dark staring at my brand new iphone), i tried to track it but apple said i hadnt set up my tracking or something.
So for a week or 2 I was back to the old phone, before insurance came through and covered half of what it was worth, so I bought another iphone. This time I used it for a good week, was sure to set up tracking etc and was enjoying it greatly, having constant web and email access was fantastic.
Well, in the end, on a drive home from work one night I was crashed into by a drunk driver on the side. Unfortunately my phone was in my pocket on that side and took a big hit. I was mostly okay, nothing to severe, the worst being burns on my leg from the battery bursting, and just some back pains and leg pains.
Unfortunately Apple could not do anything about it, stating that the damage to my phone was catastrophic and they wont replace a phone with that extent of damage. Without Apple providing a replacement insurance wont cover it and because I bought it outright, I dont have any kind of plan coverage for 2 degrees to cover. So in short, im down 2 iphones and just over 2 grand, and also a mighty big dent in the side of my car.
Funnily enough, my nokia was still in the car and even after being flung around and knocking against everything in the crash, it survived fine and has been doing me pretty well to this day. Maybe that stylish casual blue defender case could defend me (or my wallet) from the perils of poor decisions and innebriated drivers. Needless to say, your prompt delivery of games have kept me busy while ive been stuck in bed all day, bring on Witcher 3 tomorrow!
was at work had my near new samsung s5 in my pocket went to the bathroom and as i stood up it fell into the loo!! didnt have much choice but to grab it out of the loo and when i did using 2 fingers only it slipped and smashed onto the floor.
#INEEDOTTERBOX
This is my Grandmother, Denise with my two siblings and I (she also has two other grand children) during happier times. She is the backbone of our family also a helping hand, a shoulder to cry on, a hand to hold and so much more to so many people from our immediate family to our extended family to complete strangers she has met. Things haven't been so great for her lately, especially after her Samsung phone was stolen from her in the local shopping mall! I would love for her to win the Samsung phone and Otterbox case (I think she'd like the Otterbox Commuter Case for Samsung Galaxy S6 in Black) to brighten up her day and pay her back for all the amazing things she has done for me. Please please please let her win it, @mighty.ape! Thank you so much #INEEDOTTERBOX
This is copied from my instagram account @melissatonkin
Please choose my Grandma!!!
#INEEDOTTERBOX
Once upon a time I had with me
My trusty Samsung Galaxy S3
I was in such a hurry to get somewhere
That I rather foolishly did not take care
I jumped into the car and my phone did dive
Straight onto the concrete drive
A sickening crack was all I did hear
My screen was shattered beyond repair
Unprintable words I did say
Because my Samsung died that day
If only I had an Otter case to save my phone
I would by not be phoneless and so alone ...
OtterBox Defender Case for Samsung Galaxy S6 - Casual Blue please
My dog ate my phone
I cried
Amethyst please ;D
It was the perfect phone - I got my Sony Xperia Z3 Compact in Boxing Day sales at JB Hi Fi, just a few months ago. I'd chosen it after researching phones for months - it was powerful, a beautiful, attention-grabbing red/orange colour and, suddenly, on sale! My girlfriend and I each got one, and that night I bought protective cases online for us both. See? Thinking.
Three days later and just before New Year's, I opened my locker at the gym...and my phone fell out of a part-open zip pocket 2 metres onto the concrete floor! The screen cracked right across and wouldn't acknowledge touch any more, although I could SEE my lockscreen still on, as if taunting me.
A repair was going to cost half the cost of the phone, but I just had to. A few days later, I got a call. After fixing the screen, they found in testing that the sound module was dead. The phone was a write-off!
It WAS the the perfect phone..
Oh, and THEN the protective case I ordered arrived. This time, I'd like to get the case WITH the phone. An Otterbox Defender Glacier. It's the only way to be sure...
For my birthday in November last year i got a galaxy s3, and it was 2 months later when my friend had come back from a year long exchange over in brazil that we decided to have a get together for him to celebrate his return!
So everything had gone perfect, i let my girlfriend and 2 of my friends come round and stay the night afterwards, because they were drunk and whilst grabbing sleeping bags and jackets and what not out of the boot, as Angus our sober driver started to head off, the other 3 decided that they weren't any help so made a move to get inside, bumping me as they went past and knocking 90% of everything i had a hold of out of my hands.....
One of them being my phone so picking everything up by myself, the last thing i picked up was my phone....and surely enough when i turned it over it was shattered, despite the 'shock proof' case i had on it. And being a student still at college i have no money, so not being able to get it fixed as it was going to cost at least $270 to get a new screen and having to put with a broken one ever since
so pleaaaase it would mean a lot to me if won this competition!
If i do win the case id like would be the
OtterBox Defender case for Samsung Galaxy S6 - Black
https://twitter.com/Moistly_45/status/600440111101251584?lang=en
Dusk had commenced. A breath of wind up on the desolate mountain. A great opportunity to capture what gives us life, The Sun. I pulled out my phone to take a picture of nature. It was breathtaking. I had taken many shots before i realised that it had gotten dark quickly. I walked away down the mountain heading toward the car. As I was looking at the photos on the way down, the universe thought it would be funny to see if my phone could fly. My foot hit a stone sticking out of the ground, I fell. My phone catapulted at least five meters before hitting the rocky terrain. I got up and picked up my phone. It had cracks on the bottom of the screen.
The universe laughed at me.
If I were to win I would like the OtterBox Symmetry Gridlock case.
I purchased a new iphone 6.. It was awesome.. I captured moments of my young 3 month old's life to now where he is about to turn a year old. Unfortunately I never was able to back up those first's in videos and pictures to icloud. Last weekend I was putting my baby in his carseat. Since my hands were full I placed both my wallet and phone on top of the car to buckle my son in. I never imagined I could forget about something so important. When I got home my wallet was still on the roof. I noticed then and there that my phone was not, and had to have been dropped off or picked up. I went back to pak n save very upset that someone had picked up my phone as it was not ringing. I didn't think I had a hope to get it back. I saw it face down at a roundabout. After stopping traffic I grabbed it off the concrete. As I turned it over I was hopeful nobody had passed over it. Unfortunately they had... it would appear many times over, as it had the appearance of diamond icicles from top to bottom. I am a solo mum and I am absolutely crushed as I am still paying the phone off, have no insurance, and most of all have lost precious memories of my son's developmental days. I have been told it is beyond repair. I am at a total loss. If I won a galaxy and a wicked awesome Otterbox case I would never put it atop a vehicle ever again, and I could still use my plan I am obligated to pay each month. I would be immensely grateful. If chosen I would adore the OtterBox Defender Case for Samsung Galaxy S6 - Purple Amethyst. I've also shared a pic on my instagram haleighkemp of my demolished phone.. Thank you
No super long story. Just one really bad day.
Maybe 2 weeks ago I was out shopping and went to pay.. oh s*!t I can't find my wallet. So I just go home to look for it. As I was walking home and pulling my keys out I dropped them.. Down a drain. No joke. Then trying to get into my house without keys my phone falls out of my pocket and the screen smashes on the ground. An otterbox case would have removed at least that insult to injury.
A few months ago I was went out drinking with some friends and my boyfriend at the time.
I decided I was pretty smart putting my new expensive phone and money and drinks in a bag.
Sadly I was mistaken.
Later that evening I went to get another drink out of my bag and discovered my phone and money floating ... in a bag full of alcohol.
Turns out alcohol is worse for your phone than water.
However my night gets worse as in the morning sadly I forgot ( due to having to much to drink) and plugged my phone into charge which fired the whole phone.
So now I am back using my old crappy phone attempting to save to purchase a new one.
I would love a new S6 and a #otterbox commuter case in casual blue
I had just left the house on the way to work after waking up late, and was in a hurry so I swung my backpack onto my back, but the pocket was open. My phone fell out, but I missed catching it and as I was walking it landed right on my foot making me kick it down the drive..... Screen completely smashed!
Purple Amethyst would have saved the day.
I dropped my brand new Samsung Galaxy S3 in the toilet - AFTER I was finished doing what I was doing - and after having to quickly reach in to get it out, ran to the bathroom and rinsed it with water -.- I had to take apart everything, put it all in a bowl of rice in the hot water cupboard and leave it there for nearly a week until it was dry :'( It is now unable to play sound or receive phone calls and turns itself off all the time.
I would LOVE an S6, with the Casual Blue OtterBox case <3
About 9 months ago my so called friend was holding my phone and she decided to throw it to the ground because she realised I found out that she was sleeping with my fiancée at the time who's also the father of my baby. Now I'm a solo mum and can't afford to fix it or get a new phone. I hate the fact that there's one glass falling off my screen and two a constant reminder of how betrayed I was by two people I trusted
Went fishing at our local swimming river. But on the way home we have to cross a train bridge to get back to town. Knowing my luck i of course forgot to grab my bag back at the spot So i went back across to retrive it. Finaly im back on track and headind home crossing the bridge once again when all of a sudden i hear a crack of something hitting the rocks. Look down to cheek it out and saw my phone split it to peices. The phone its self was cheep but held a lot of sentimental value. So loseing it like that put a damper on my day. The phone was a gift so it feels sorta weird to try and get a new one but i thought i might as well try :)
Id like a casual blue case with an S6. Or if you guys could hook me up with a cheap 80 dollar phone would be great to haha chears
Casual blue case and s6
Overlooked removing my cellphone from jeans pocket and as a result the phone was washed with the jeans. On removing Jeans from washing machine found phone still in pocket. Removed it and put it in a paper bag with rice in hot water cupboard and after a week was not able to activate. As a result had to buy another. Would like the S6 as an update and a OtterBox Commuter Case for Samsung Galaxy S6 - Glacier .
I HAD THE FIRST IPHONE IN NZ. Back in 2007. I never had a cellphone before, but since I got university entrance at 16, my folks were rewarding me after missing the teenage cellphone trend which started way back.
I was the 'cool' guy having something no one had ever seen... for two weeks. Then I tripped up outside my front door and into a puddle, my iPhone Gen 1 getting fully submerged.
Back then, when you had to parallel import the first batch of iPhones, it would've been expensive as hell to fix (sending it back to the U.S when it wasn't released worldwide etc). My parents wouldn't have even paid to fix it locally. Since then, I've had to get hand-me-downs from my younger siblings (dumbphones to knock-off Galaxy wannabes), and earlier this year I bought a second-hand Xperia Z from 2012. It had scratches and dents all over it.
So I wouldn't mind a brand spanking new phone with an OtterBox to protect it. It may have protected my iPhone and this second-hand Xperia Z!
Whoops, forgot to mention what case. Honestly, when you've had problems with smart phones like I have, it doesn't really matter what case. So whatever's in stock and protects the phone like a first born baby.
Hi. I brought myself a nice new HTC one m8 and I had it for only a few days when my dog got a hold of it and chewed on it. There are some nice bite marks on the back of my phone with some nice bite marks in the screen which are now white dots and really noticeable when the screen is dark. Needless to say I was gutted. Spent 1,000$ on this phone. Please upgrade my doggie bite mark phone
HELLO IT'S ME AGAIN, I WAS THE PREVIOUS COMMENT ABOUT THE SAMSUNG S3 MINI ANDCRAPPY MOTOROLA.
"Okay so, I've had the same Samsung S3 mini for about three years now, my parents cant afford to buy me a new phone because (obviously) a big lack of $$ and all that at the moment. The phone has had a real bashing, it's in horrible condition. It's been cracked over three times and right now the screen has large cracks throughout. The first time I cracked it was an unintentional throw. The second time was an unintentional drop, and the third time was an unintentional fling across the ground. I can get the screen fixed quite cheap but all that throwing around has messed it up. It doesn't send or receive messages well, it drops out of range/wifi, the lock button doesn't work and it will just unexpectedly restart multiple times throughout the day which can drain the battery by 10%. I reaaaaaally could go for this new phone!! Also, it basically crapped itself the other day. i was sending a text and it wouldn't send. i would usually just restart the phone, but due to the button where you turn it off not working, I just crashed it with the hope of turning it back on.. Hasn't turned on ever since. Won't even charge :'( it has now been like three days without this phone, but GUESS WHAT! now i have an even worse phone! it's a motorola defy with a completely shattered screen, about 6-8 years old, it is the laggiest thing i have ever laid my hands on, it doesn't work with wifi well at all, it dies in about 10 minutes, when you're going to send a text you can't see what you're typing because the words don't show up, when you unlock it sometimes the screen blacks out the moment it's unlocked (and then it'll do this about ten times in a row...) and those are just a small handful of its vast range of faults. it is absoloutely horrible to type on. SAVE ME MIGHTY APE, #INEEDOTTERBOX sooooOOOOOOOOO BAD! And if I do possibly win (this is v exciting I've never been in the draw for something) I would totally go for the melon pop case, so cute. Thaaaannkkksss heaps for reading and I hope I can possibly maybe hopefully win! :)))"
I AM WRITING IN CAPITALS SO IT STANDS OUT. TURNS OUT THE MOTOROLA JUST GETS WORSE AND WORSE EVERY SINGLE DAY :( I NEED THIS NEW PHONE SO MUCH, IT WOULD BE SUCH A HELP. AND SINCE I'M IN NCEA RIGHT NOW IT WOULD BE SO MUCH BETTER FOR RESEARCH AND STUFF SINCE MY COMPUTER SCREEN HAS RECENTLY JUST BROKEN BECAUSE OF MY DOG JUMPING ON IT. THIS WOULD BE BEST OPPORTUNITY AND IF I WON IT WOULD BE SO SO SO SO SOOOOO AMAZING. THANK YOU MIGHTY APE I HOPE YOU PICK ME <3
2013, in the month of May
And we'd come to the end of the day
We had packed up our stuff
Thought we had done enough
It was time that we were on our way.
Check the office, computers shut down
Workplace resembled a ghost town
With the buzz of the day
Now a silent ballet
Resplendent in a fashionable ball gown
Out the door we all go, lock the door
The alarm keeps the building secure
As we trek to the car
It's parked close, not that far
A quick drive home is what is called for
So I fumble around for my keys
Put my phone on the car roof, for ease
In my pocket I find
Pens, paper, orange rind?
And my car keys! The door lock I squeeze
The car unlocks and I hop in
Homeward bound soon I'll be, and I grin
With my car now in gear
And the road nice and clear
My journey home is about to begin
And I'm off! With keen anticipation
Listening to my fave radio station
Then I hear a loud bang
On my boot there's a "clang"
And I realise, in sudden frustration
My phone I had left on my car
Was no longer there, it's on the tar
With the screen slightly cracked
And the back fully whacked
I was about to say "au revoir"
But wait, the thing was still going
Like the Amazon, it was still flowing
Though falling apart
It still had beating heart
(And the battery light was still glowing)
I repaired it as best I could
And though it is now not as good
As when it was new
It still sees me through
And so it bloody well should!
But now it's time that it's replaced
After all of the battles it's faced
The battery doesn't last
In fact its used up real fast
I would say it has run it's last race
And this Samsung's much bigger and spacier
And I'd even say it looks much racier
Hence my little rendition
Enters this competition
If I win can I have Otterbox Glacier?
This is a tale of resilance... it was a cold night. A cold night accompanied by a my master having one too many drinks. As we were heading home, his attention shifted as he smelt the glorious smell coming from the near by mcds restaurant. As he entered a trance like state, he placed me on the roof of a parked car and wandered inside. I saw him leave mcds, chuffed with his combo. It was clear as I was not in his thoughts and this impromptu affair with dinner and altered his thinking. I watched as he got into the taxi and drove away.
3 days I sat on the roof of that car, somehow wedged under a roof rack. 3 days of early morning dew, rain, and wild rides to and from that same mcds restaurant where the car driver worked. O how I yelled, I vibrated, I screamed...anything to get anyones attention. It was horrible. How I longed for my masters warm, embracing palm. Finally on the last of my battery I let out a final yell. The car driver heard!!! She made contact with my master and I was heading home. It was a anxious waif as I waited patiently for him to pick me up. When he arrived, the smile on his face was amazing...one I will never forget. I felt his love for me.
Even though I survived my ordeal, I feel I would not be I my current condition with an glacier ottobox defender protectig me. My body is holding up well but my brain was damaged with the prolonged exposure to the wellington weather. I long to see my masters smile again and I feel I am just too slow and abit u predictable for him now. I just want to see him happy once more...
I accidently touched Michael Laws with my phone so I dropped it and ran.
Well living on a farm we've had it all over the years and have kept the phone companies in business as we've been through a few.
Onetime stands out though , we were moving some cows when a cheeky one decided to sneak round the back, my husband flung his arms out and shouted loudly to get her back on track. The phone flung out of his overall pocket with a slow motion spin through the air, straight into the rogue cows path, bumps her on the head then drops. She turned round in defeat at the escape attempt but has one last laugh as she then trampled the phone into the dirt... Bye bye phone but cows all together again!
So we could do with a new Samsung galaxy 6 with a lovely casual blue defender case.
It was a hot summers day in January 2015, my 6 kids and I were hanging out by our inflatable pool. Life was actually pretty good, apart from the pool was a little on the small side for a mass "family" swim...we happily took turns.
I had a 4 day old Samsung which I was incredibly proud of...I had literally spent the past 4 days showing her off and introducing her to everyone I knew! It was an incredible 4 days, I had her all up and running full of contacts, emails, photo and video memories. I was in awe of her really, I guess you would call us inseparable.
Now my kids being kids had secretly gathered to have a meeting, which didn't include me. I could sense my little monkeys were up to something but I really had no idea what was about to come. I noticed my husband had readied himself close by with his own phone/camera in hand.
It was then as my 6 children approached me at high speed like a pack of wild animals that i realized I was in fact in grave danger. They took hold of my limbs and clothing and started moving me swiftly towards the pool...
I shrieked for help trying to get out the words "MY PHONE IS IN MY POCKET" but with so many excited yelling kids confusion set in and my hubby misheard me and mistook my shrieks for help as that of laughter and he encouraged and egged on our children to "THROW MUM IN" "THROW MUM IN"
Before i knew it and despite my best efforts my children's determination to dunk me had worked. I was standing waist deep in the pool fully dressed and heart broken knowing my phone was tucked away "safely" in my back pocket. I forced a laugh and giggle as my kids were really happy with their achievements of getting their mummy in the pool fully clothed and I stood patiently while my husband photographed the funny family event.
It was a sad end to an amazing 4 days, i tried all my might to save her, but she was well and truly gone. No power, no crystal clear display, no music, photos or video...after an amazing 4 days, she was gone!
Heart broken, I still to his day miss her, but giggle at the memory of my 6 happy children dunking mum in the pool.
I don't have a preferred option, If I am chosen as the winner of this very cool prize I would be happy with anything I was to be given.
I do have a photo of this day but I am unsure how to add it to my story.
Thanks for reading, have a great day :)
hi when putting up my story earlier I forgot to say what case I would like. Could I please have OtterBox Defender Case for Samsung Galaxy S6 - Black
I have never had a need for an otterbox, and if you give me this phone I will look after it just as well. Just in case though, the black one looks nice ;)
Well it was not long after I had my second son. He was maybe 3 weeks old.
I was busy feeding him when I realised it was quiet. Too quiet for my two year old. So my spidey sense was tingling.
I put my baby down and went to find the two year old at the bathroom sink.
Happily giving my phone a good wash :(
I cried. He cried because I was crying. The baby cried because he was still hungry. Many tears were shed.
So that was the day my phone died.
If could definitely use a new Samsung s6 with an otter box defender case in black. Thanks!
https://instagram.com/p/2VVq82jpGL/?taken-by=keziastephens
this would make me so so happy, i have never won anything in my entire life, THANK YOU MIGHTY APE :)
I had a nexus 5 and decided it was time I cleaned the house I started with the laundry. Finish off cleaning the house and I realise in a chilling *oh crap!* moment that I had left the phone in a pocket which just went through the wash... I pull it out midway and it's litterally flowing water out of it. I quickly grab towels and start to dismantle the phone while I begin putting it in the sun. A week later I cross my fingers put the phone back together and shout hallelujah as it turns on and works as it always had... *wipes brow.. About one month later I'm heading into the hospital to visit my wife who is having the pregnancy from hell and has been in and out since week 17 with chronic pain. (now week 29) and the doctors are unable to treat due to keeping bubba safe. Anyway it's raining I'm running to the doors from the car my phone decided that now would be a perfect time and does a kamakazi dive and somersaults from my pocket into the only puddle around drowning itself and smashing the screen in the process. I scrape him up carefully in my hands and know there is just no hope to save it any more... It was a sad death. I miss having a decent phone and with a new family on the way and the issues my wife is going through its the last thing on the list.
A new Samsung s6 and a defender case from otterbox would give us such a pickme up with everything going on. Would even share it with my wife the next time she has an extended stay in hospital.
Well i am a builder and i was on a construction site up 20 floors for the ground, I was working in an elevator shaft that day so it was rather difficult to move around. So about mid day just after lunch i was getting back into the elevator shaft and my Samsung Note 3 decided it would be funny to slip out of my pocket and fall all the way down to the ground floor, keep in mind that i was on the 20th floor. Needless to say, ill be needing an OtterBox defender and most definitely a new phone!!
Had a s5 with life proof case. Dropped landed flat screen down. There was a stone that smashed the screen. Have now changed to otterbox
So, one day I decided to be a lovely daughter and grab my mum some of her favorite foods for mother's day. I had just finished shopping when I reached into my bag to pull out of wallet, when my phone came out stuck to the side of it. Before I could pull it off, it fell to the ground. I was in a rush so put it back in my bag and proceeded to pay and drive to the post shop to post my gift to mum. I pulled my phone out to check her and dress only to realise that the lid screen has cracked so I couldn't even check the address.
HEY MIGHTY APE! Me again. I wanted to add something else to the equation about my story and the Motorola. My friends are at the point of making fun of me for it hahahaha it's that bad. They make fun of the massively cracked screen and how you can't go on it when it's on charge and everything else, how it can't run Facebook, how it dies in about five or ten minutes, and how when you're in a call the battery dies even quicker. It's absolutely horrible :( Please please please mighty ape this will be the best thing ever you have no idea how amazing this would be. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU i'm going to write again and make this a story because I think that is how we enter aswell. :)
Having a case on my phone is a necessity as my phones seem to bounce out of my hand/pocket/handbag on a regular basis, hitting the ground with brute force. Luckily for me these little escapades hadn't resulted in any damage, until the Great Slip 'n' Slide of '14.
I was at work, just finishing my morning tea break. I put my phone carefully on top of my handbag and had just stepped away from the desk when I heard an almighty smack. I didn't even need to turn around to know what had happened. My phone had slid off my handbag and landed screen-down on the concrete floor.
I picked it up to see the screen covered in white criss-cross lines and pieces of the glass flaking off. The whole screen was smashed on impact, althought it was still usable. I whacked a screen protector (yes, too little too late) on to prevent further flaking, then carried on my merry way.
The story doesn't end there. I used that phone for a long time with that broken screen, always promising to fix it soon. One day after returning to the car after a couple of hours of indoor rock climbing I found the car window smashed and my handbag (carefully hidden under the seat) gone. Inside the bag was my phone, broken screen and all.
I hope they at least replaced the screen.
Ah in the drama of the story forgot to add, a sweet Melon case would prevent any future concrete floor smack down! :) Thanks Mighty Ape!
On the day of my 18th birthday almost exactly 2 years ago i was walking back from my party and my friend demanded i hand him my trusty xperia u before i drop and break it, ironically enough in the process of handing it to him it manged to fall brtween the cracks in the small bridge we were crossing (luckily landing on the concrete not water) all i remember from there is waking up thr next morning with a very broken screen on my phone with a very slow response time that ive just barely managed to cope with using till this day. My prefered case to orevent something like this occuring again would be the casual blue defender.
T’was a night of merriment, 21 years since the birth of my elder brother and all were drunk. I myself was in the midst of a beer skull when I heard the first splash of someone leaping drunkenly into the pool.
It wasn’t long after this that my ‘trusted’ friend and long-time drinking buddy came running up asking me to play a game of beer pong. I of course, accepted his challenge and made my way outside to the slightly wobbly table that would be our glorious coliseum. It wasn’t until I got outside and saw my other ‘trusted’ companion smiling maniacally that the drunken stupor which had previously dampened my senses faded and I realised I would never make it to the beer pong table, and was in fact headed to a watery grave.
Following a brief and intoxicated struggle at the poolside, I was flung headlong into the cold embrace of the pool, its waters eagerly devouring me and everything in my pockets. It was at this point that I realised my smartphone was still in my pocket, and shortly after this that I cursed the designers of women’s clothing. Why? It dawned on me that not long beforehand, my girlfriend had entrusted her own brand new smartphone to the safety of my pockets, lacking any herself.
As I emerged from the frozen wasteland and scrambled to the poolside, I saw her face, contorted in shock and fury at the loss of her precious lifesblood. It took all my strength not to slide back into the bottom of the pool right then and there but I chose life, and am now in need of a new smartphone lest my soul suffer in eternal anguish. Perhaps if either phone had been encased in an OtterBox Defender Glacier case, they would have survived the brief few seconds in the pool.
It was one of those rainy days at college and i so desperately needed a chocolate fix to subdue my stress from exams. I headed over to the canteen where i waited in line to see what goodies i could buy. Excited from some news i had received i ordered a big chocolate muffin and got my friend one too.
As i turned around with 1 muffin in one hand and a phone and muffin in the other. I tried to pass the delicious goodness to my friend but i was about to drop them. In stupid hesitation to decide what to save. i choose the muffin. Leaving my phone (a flip top at the time) tumbling to the ground where it crashed and snapped right in half!
I was so angry at myself i punched my muffin, stormed back to class and told my friends what had happened. "i was so angry at myself for choosing the muffin over the phone so i punched my muffin"
All they could do was laugh due to their dirty minds and what i had said about my muff-in....
Now i have a replacement but never enough money for the phone i want.
(plus if i won id love any case that was black :P)
it was 15 of january 2012 and i had just gotten my new phone. i went to the bathroom and noticed that my phone wasnt in my pocket. wasnt that bad, i mean its just a cellphone. but when i got out much to my disgust there was my phone on the ground dissasembled, luckily since it wasnt a very good phone i put it back together and it worked. the very next day i was doing my paper round and then was saying to my friend that it would suck if i lost it. in this world, there are some things that should not be said. nek minut my phone fell out of my pocket while walking across the road and i only noticed when i was on the other side. before i could get it there was a line of traffic that was coming my way. 8 cars had run over it and i was wishing i had a nokia. my samsung galaxy mini was no more.
(would like a nice black one if i win please)
cheers.
Lets just say never bring your brand new sony experia to mount ruapahu.
Condensation + rocks = waste of 200 bucks.
https://m.mightyape.co.nz/product/OtterBox-Defender-Case-for-Samsung-Galaxy-S6-Black/23009923
After a long and strenuous day of school I returned home long awaited to relax. I pulled out my samsung s3 mini to send a text to one of my friends when, OH NO! My phone slipped out of my fingers, and I picked it up and realized the inevitable. Multiple cracks hoarded my screen, and with the saddest of faces, I went and alarmed my parents of the accident. They reacted rather well, saying I can just get my screen fixed. I was pleasantly surprised, and I went to send it off. I got it back within two weeks, and it came back crack free. A few months later, the screen cracked again. Someone dropped it who wasn't me. This time, my parents were not as happy. I wasn't able to get it fixed, because it was only a little screen crack. Not too much to worry about. But then, that's when it started acting up. I couldn't use the speakers some days, I couldn't use the home button properly, and it wouldn't send messages. When I thought that this was bad, there was even worse to come. Much, much worse. The day I was at the gym I was walking to my destination and in an unexpected fit, my already cracked s3 mini flung across the room! "Oh no no no" I retorted. I ran over to check its condition. Worse than I thought. More and more cracks surrounded the screen. Not as bad as the first time I cracked it, but still not pretty. Dad was even unhappier. I blame the flimsy pathetic excuse for a case that I have. Then a few weeks later, it started acting up even worse. It didn't process things properly at all, internet doesn't work that good, wouldn't send texts at all, power button didn't work. Then it happened. It just turned off. No power to charge it, nothing. Dead. RIP SAMSUNG S3 MINI. I informed my father about the recent breakup with my phone. I kindly asked for a replacement. He said that unfortunately due to our current money situation he cannot afford to get me a new phone. But I can take an old phone off his hands. THAT'S RIGHT - a first motorola model. The anger that rushes through me every time I go to use this phone is unbelievable. It doesn't send texts, doesn't work with internet or data :( the battery lasts about ten minutes if I'm listening to music or in a call, I can't use it on charge, the screen is completely shattered, I have the worst phone out of everyone I know at the moment :( If I had the slightest chance to win, I would happily throw a complete burial for my s3 mini and throw this motorola off a cliff. The worst part is, my ball is coming up in a month or two. I will have no phone to take photos on, no way to remember the memories :( oh, tragic day. I also have NCEA this year and next year. My computer has been jumped on by my dog, so parts of the screen are dead (a.k.a completely black) so it's hard to use it and write assessments, which is so vital this year for me and my future. This samsung s6 would be so so amazing to win. I want to get a job to help my parents with being able to help pay for things as their money is quite low at the moment, so a new phone would be so so amazing. I hope this comment is read and recognized from the many tragic phone stories, and I hope I have a chance in winning. Thank you so much mighty ape for putting me into consideration. This new phone (and an otter box case) would go loved by me and my family would be in your debt. A melon pop case is super cute in my opinion, thank you again. x
Well my story is very sad. I have a bad habit of taking my phone to the toilet with me and a couple of times it falls out of my pocket into the toilet and so i have to pull it apart dry it nd stick it in rice for a day or so and then hope and pray it works. There was no fixing it this time... i was moving moving my 6 in 1 cooker filled with oil as i had been using it as a deep fryer.. anyways i had my phone in my pocket.. again.. and i put the cooker down to open the front door as i was going to drain the oil outside and well as i bent over to pick the cooker back up all i hear is 'plop' nd im thinking fuck... you would think i would have learnt my lesson about phones in pockets... unfortunately there was no saving it this time as it had been fully submerged in the oil regardless of my fast reactions and quick movements to pull it out the oil had penetrated deep into the phone.
If by some miracle i do win then can i just have a blue case. Blue is my favourite colour and to me thats all i really want in the way of a case. You guys can pick the design nd blue colour.
There is a small gremlin in our house who has been dubbed, by my boss, The Terminator. This gremlin destroys anything and everything in sight.
Many precious things have been broken over the last 3 years. This however went to a new level 3 months ago, when my Terminator decided to sneak my phone, and break not only that, but also my 50" plasma! Why he decided to launch my phone at the TV, we are not quite sure. End result was a shattered TV screen (despite the salesman telling me Plasma screens are far more sturdy than their LCD counterparts) and no TV for the kids for a 3 week period.
Thankfully, insurance came to the rescue on that one, but unfortunately it was not the case for my poor phone, which has never recovered nor been replaced. I feel that perhaps the Casual Blue OtterBox Defender Case may have saved my phone (but would have created considerably more damage for the TV), so that would be my choice should I win :)
Well i was working the rain started and didnt think anything of it was thinking it was just going to pass but before i know it the rain had caused a floor at my work so while i was locking up trying to get to higher ground i dropped my phone in the flood water and it hasnt started since so i couldnt get hold of my wife until i got home to tell her why i couldnt get a hold of her and what happened lets just say she wasnt ro happy about the phone but happy i was ok so this would help so i can keep in contact with her if anything like that happens again
is it bad i'm counting down the days till this competition closes, lol. hope my (previously written) tragic stories (read up in previous comments to experience the pain) deserve a chance and i have the ability to win. wish i knew about otterbox before :) #ineedotterbox #mightyape
i don't even know if writing more comments shows you how much this would mean to me hahaha
thanks mighty ape!!!
this would be so amazing though xoxo
Well I had brought an Iphone 4s brand new and had 2 years warranty with the local store. I had updated my phone to the latest ios. Thus not to mention i had never dropped my phone and all ways took the greatest care for my phone. For that day after updating it would not work for any local WiFi or network and I use cell phones as a computer. So their was no point in having the phone to do research h many were having the same problem. I went into my local store that I brought from and asked for warranty papers.? I'm like Umm do you not have it registered down on your computer from selling the phone to me under my name.? Thus no I had to have my receipt which I could not find for literally till the last day of my 2yr warranty. To wait for at least a month to receive my new phone with no details on what was fixed. Clearly it was a brand new Iphone 4s that has been working ever sense. But the trouble with the first phone :( such a hassle but to then have Surf the City a Run for the locals in the town and or bike or jog. And i was running tripped on a stone with my phone rolled over with phone to shatter it's front screen landing in a paddle.! :( And the embarrassment was all I needed to feel like a total idiot picking up my phone that would not turn on. Soo I had to finish the race quickly went home for Mum and Dad were working to put my phone in a bowl of rice. For the next morning to realise the phone was completely stuffed and would not turn on :( If only I had a Samsung phone being water proof with an Otterbox Defender colour black. Ild still have a phone.!
Appoligise over spelling mistakes for its hard typing on a old School dell computer that is literally that slow it took me roughly 2 hrs just to write that when on a phone I would have been finished with predictive txt on in like half an hour.
Swapped my iphone for samsung s3 just after the swap I tripped over my dog and promptly chucked my phone into the pool amazingly due to the awesomeness of Samsungs it kinda survived but its started fucking out again time for a new one if I win can I please have a cool Melon defender ottorbox please muchly appreciated Craig :)
Had one of the first Bellsouth (yeah, Im old) Nokia Prepay phones, all was well until one day was with mates in Manurewa, been to BK for some food, got back to the car and due to a dodgy install, the car alarm went off. Now for me to kill the alarm I have to pop the hood and fiddle with the fuses....so I place my phone, wallet, and keys on the roof of the car. Sort the alarm, turn around to see my mate picking up my stuff from the roof and hops in the car. Off we go on a 30km journey....get to the destination where I ask him for my phone. He just stares blankly at me... "I didnt pick it up, thought you did". Oh #!$%. Drove all the way back to Manurewa. Not a sign of my phone. Those things were like bricks so it probably survived the fall and someone picked it up. What did I learn from this ? Don't trust ya mates ;)
I am notorious for destroying phones, i even broke a Griffin Survivor case through daily use which was meant to be British Military Spec quality, so this is a change of pace with it not being my fault for once!
Normally I bought bad cheap phones for around $50 or so but this one was a Samsung s4
I was working at my old job as a kitchen hand at my local cafe, finishing off after a busy Sunday and preparing for a function we were hosting later that night.
I was told to take a break, so i took off my apron and put my phone on top of it while i ate my food and had a sit down.
When i returned, i couldn't find my apron or phone and assumed I had left it somewhere different and i would find it when we cleaned down after the function and got a new one on and continued the prep.
Later on when we were cleaning down and i still couldn't find it, I asked if anyone had seen or moved it, the chef said the boss came through and grabbed all the washing when i was on break...
I hurriedly rang the bosses number from the work phone but the load of washing was already on and the damage was done... :,(
Otterbox Defender Glacier would be my choice here, hopefully they're better than the Griffin ones!
Was just casually minding my own business at work and knocked over my glass of water on to my apparently not so water proof Xperia.
I've gone through a number of phones over the years and that's because most of the time I've dropped my phone and cracked it's screen or the phone starts playing up, certain apps won't work, it won't charge, etc to where I still have these phones in one of my drawers haha (Ipad is now stuffed as well - no case) All of these phones never had a case of some sort - You'd think I would've learn after the first or second phone but to this day I still don't have a case or cover for my phone.
Twas a wet and windy day in Auckland CBD. My Auckland uni lecture was starting in several minutes however my greedy, "under nourished" stomach grumbled menacingly at the thought of sitting in a room for two hours without nutritional supplement.
I began the minute journey up soaking side streets towards the convenience store for the student special ($1.80 steak ; cheese pie). Upon leaving the store the heavens opened, swiftly moving back to the safety of my studio my pre-owned Samsung galaxy S3 bleeped at me signalling a new message.
Reaching into my pocket to retrieve the device my wet hand slipped, thrusting the delicate uncased phone at the cold hard ground. Years of ninja training taught me to use my foot to carefully guide the stray Samsung to a safe landing, however this turned into a dropkick as I watched it tumble several metres along the sidewalk and into the gutter.
A sturdy case would have sustained the damage, however the bare device sustained a badly cracked screen, camera and broken home button... it finally died 3 days later from water damage.
To make matters worse not only was the text I received a message a $700 repair bill on my rusty 1993 Honda accord, but my steak and cardboard pie was smothered into the ground during the incident.
If only the fall had been broken by an otterbox defender in white, I wouldn't be here with my story of this sad sad day
Thanks, Connor ;)
Was a very busy day at work, and cables needed to be run in the attic. I scrambled up the ladder to get into the attic space. I took both my phone (which I had purchased a month prior) and wallet out of my pockets and placed them safely on top of the water header tank.
I spent a good few hours running cables, tying them back to make them all tidy (a little bit like building a computer really) running the cables needed. I heard my phone receive a few txts over a period of time.
I was in a tight spot in the attic, when I heard my phone ring (it possibly was the boss), I tried my hardest to get out of the tight space I was in by shuffling on my stomach going backwards (while trying not to fall through the ceiling), but by the time I had got out of the tight spot the phone had stopped ringing.
I continued to make my way over to my phone to see who had called me, when the phone started ringing again, then to my horror the phone vibrated off the top of the header tank, bounced off the header tank over flow tray, bounced across some insulation, as I was fumbling over all the joints/rafters trying to stop my phone, it slid through a gap between two joints, and fell straight down an internal wall with a loud thud as it hit the bottom of the wall, there was no way without cutting holes into the customers wall of getting out my phone, so there it lays until the day someone renovates the home and finds it, and hopefully returns it back to me (If only!!)
If only this event had been prevented by having an Otterbox Defender in Black installed on my phone, my worst nightmare would not have happened.
omg i know this sounds so over the top but i'm seriously losing sleep over this competition. as you have probably realized the current phone i have is a huge burden. it's gotten even worse, it;s at the point where i can't unlock it now :'( it's horrible. i hope to see my name as the winner and be able to find the best and most entertaining way to explode this motorola. if i win, i will find the best way possible and post it to the mighty ape wall on facebook. sounds like an extremely fun time. #ineedotterbox I HOPE I WIN!!!!!!!
This story begins in a time before smart phones in a world where flip and slider phones were the thing to have.
My old faithful Nokia 3200 that my brother had handed down to me for high school was going strong. Playing bump in English, who wants to be a millionaire in maths, the sheer beauty of the polyphonic orchestra of the doctor who theme song. Life was simpler and and the best feature of that phone was its durability.
Here comes the sad part better get a tissue. The phone was covered in scrapes and bruises before I got after my brother and dropped many times and even put ot through the wash, so when I got it the old girl was a bit slow but that added to the charm. One faithful nigh after hockey practice I hoped out of the car and through the hole in my boots bag my love feel out. It was a cold night as I headed inside it wasn't a charging night so I didn't think about the the phone and she spent the night out side in the cold frost of Rotorua. I still tear up thinking of the ice crystals forming on the circuit it wasn't till the next evening that I found the phone cold, alone and crying for help(I was calling it to try and find it) I rushed it inside warmed it up played some more bump. I had saved it. It wasn't till a few months later that the damage started to show, the phone started to slow down much more that before, turn off and some times not charge. Then one night I saw Richard Hammond on the television talking about the XT network, it breaks my heart to emit this but I was excited to upgrade. I got some cheap telecom phone that couldn't even play bump, and as I sat watching my Nokia 3200 play the doctor who theme song one last time I realised that there will never be a better phone. Unless the s6 is in which case prove me wrong. Defender case please.
I have an iPhone 4 that had been through several conflicts in its life.
It first saw the enemy when it meet the gravel in a parking lot. My phone made a flanking maneuver off my lap and struck deep into enemy territory face down. The assault left it battle scarred, a huge scar down its face fracturing it's glass.
The second conflict was a surprise retaliation from nature. Mother nature struck with the stealth in the form of the rain leaking into my phone. My phone survived but only just, we took heavy casualties; my headphones jack, volume rocker and speaker were all lost in defense of the iPhone.
The final assault was my phones invasion of a stair case. It caught me by surprise launching a rapid assault down the flight of stairs from my hand. My phone reached the bottom of the stairs and declared victory when it switched on again. The battle was bloody and the glass back had completely cracked while the front had cracked some more.
I gave my phone a commendation and a medal of honour as I put it in a cheap case to keep it together. I could definitely do with an ottorbox symmetry to keep my S6 protected from any wars it plans to partakes in, in the future.
2am, night fill and we were running behind and I was knackered. We were doing recovery, the last aisle, kitchenware. I was up the big ladder in frying pan land with a mountain of unopened boxes in pickings trying desperately to find the 30 cm honey comb frying pans. I'd left the rf gun in the storeroom and didn't fancy climbing down the ladder and walking all the way to the back of the store to get it, when freedom was a mere box away... Luckily we have an app to scan barcodes on our phones, so I whipped it out in a frenzy, and damn it all it was so quick my phone just sprung from my pocket, over the safety rail down, down, down.... Smack! Concrete! Ahhhh my precious! It lived the good life, but sadly its time had come. If only I'd had a black otter box defender case! Ended up having to work overtime, no extra pay and sad.
I dropped it in the river while I was riding my unicorn. I asked my uniform if she could magically fix it. She said no my rider I cannot, some time you have to learn that the zips on you jacket have a purpose. We then cantered into the sunset crying. My unicorn was crying glitter.
Seriously I dropped it In the river when I was on my fat pony. He got a fright from my dinosaur outfit.
My wife had a blonde moment with her smart phone.
She came home late with the kids and was rushing around trying to get house warm and kids fed, she had got them takeaways to keep them quiet.
After getting everything done she was wanting to use her phone and realised it wasn't in her hand.
Sitting down she thought back to what she did to try to remember where she left it. Got the kids settled down with food. Grabbed the rubbish from the car and was sure she got her phone also from the car. Lit the fire. She looked up as she was sitting in front of the blazing fire and had a dreadful thought. She quickly opened up the firebox. There in the flames was her phone.....
What she realised had happened was she had wrapped the phone up in the paper rubbish from the car to light the fire without thinking.
Now she needs a new phone.
I was taking photos on our ashfault driveway of a grasshopper for my 3 year old daughter with my Samsung S3, when I bent down for a close up it leaped towards my face. I got such a fright that I jumped away from the grasshopper and flung my phone high into the air and it fell hard behind me on the ashfault. Amazingly although it was scratched and slightly damaged the screen was fine and it still worked. In fact a year later and it still goes albeit looks worse for wear. Oh and the photo of the grasshopper came out quite well.
Defender case please. :-)
The Dark Ages
By Cam Strother
Chapter 1 ~The Big Soak~
I work nights and evening shifts and one night about a month ago I returned home tired just after midnight, after a hard day at work. My wife Arnya had been sick and hadn't eaten so I decided to cook her a late night dinner before I went to sleep. I remember pulling out my phone to listen to some music while I cooked, but not much more as my wife sent me to bed, as I was apparently acting "stupid tired". The next morning I woke to find my phone soaking in a frypan full of water. I don't know how this happened, I just know that it happened and it ended my phone.
Chapter 2 ~All Communications Lost~
Approx. 13 hours later...
After a long visit with my wife's whanau (during which time I shared my soaking phone story to anyone who would listen) we hopped in our car, ready to drive away and my wife tried to close her door but it wouldn't close all the way. Thinking her seatbelt had somehow got in the way, she reached down and saw with horror that she had been trying to close the door on her phone which was sitting in the pocket of her baggy cardigan. There was a big crack going across the top of her screen leaving everything underneath it black and lifeless. Somehow we managed to destroy both our matching white S3s only hours apart which plunged us into what we now refer to as " the Dark ages"
The End
Right, I'll just cut to the chase here..
*Disclaimer*
This post may cause confusion for many viewers as multiple phones will be mentioned. I have had a hard time writing this because even I got confused at times. Viewer discretion is advised.
My girlfriend goes through phones like no tomorrow. She's broken 6 screens over the past year and a half. Somehow. Anyway, halfway through last year she breaks her newest iPhone 4, coincidentally her 4th broken iPhone screen. She gets a new S3 because she thinks iPhones are the problem and are unlucky for her. Anyway, a few months down the road, I smash my S3 while getting out of my car. It's not too badly damaged, but it's annoying enough for me to swap to her slightly less smashed iPhone 4. Remember how my girlfriend thought she had bad luck with iPhone's? She was wrong. Not long after I smashed mine, she smashes hers. We trade my S3 for her S3, so now she has a slightly smashed S3 (let's call this S3A) and I have her badly smashed S3 (S3B) but am still using her iPhone 4 (iPhone 4) This is where it gets confusing...
I was intoxicated after a lovely night out with my flatmates, and managed to "stumble" over and land on iPhone 4. I fully smash the screen, and decide to repair it myself. I bought a cheapo screen off TradeMe and a few days later, after an intense game of Piano Tiles, I press hard enough that the screen cracks. I got really competitive that day.. Anyway, iPhone 4 was now broken, again. Meanwhile, my girlfriend (let's call her Girlfriend A) smashes S3A. S3A is gone. A lost cause. Smashed to the point where I could only assume The Hulk had a fist fight with it. So I give Girlfriend A S3B back. Girlfriend A decides she wants iPhone 4 back, which is okay with me because S3B still has working bluetooth, so I can connect it to my car stereo. Guess what happened. Girlfriend A smashes iPhone 4. I have never understood her ability to be able to smash so many phones... She has no phone, and I have a messed up S3B. So 2 months ago, I buy her a new iPhone 5s, which to this day has managed to remain unscathed. Thankfully.
Meanwhile, I have S3B smashed up as my phone and S3A sitting in my drawer for backup parts (well, whatever I can salvage from it)
And that's our story. I'm not sure if this means she needs a phone with Otterbox or if I need one just in case she smashes her iPhone 5s and I have to lend her my phone again.. Either way, I'd like it to be Otterbox Defender Black.
I would upload a photo of our smashed phones, but I don't have an Instagram ):
Thanks for your time, Mightyape!
It was actually a dark and chilly night, way back in October. I had a beautiful bottle of pinot noir and my best friend in tow, and we got out of the taxi onto one of Mt Eden's many delightfully sloped streets to meet some friends for dinner.
I tottered out of the taxi in my ridiculous shoes, which I knew I shouldn't have worn, and before I knew it, I was flying, my wine was flying, and then smack bang I landed on my head and managed to get a pretty bad concussion.
To my right, I saw a pool of dark red liquid, and immediately thought my head had cracked open and I was numb to the pain. The fruity notes of the pinot noir tickled my nose though, and I realised that the poor bottle was the casualty of my clumsiness.
I ran inside, incredibly embarrassed, and gathered my thoughts. I went to text a friend to tell them my stupidity and half of my phone screen was black, with only the legs of my Beyonce background still visible. Huh, I thought. It turns out the wine was not my only victim, and I had also landed on my phone, cracking the crystals underneath the gorilla glass, but leaving the gorilla glass in tact.
As all good IT people do, I turned my phone off and on again to see if that would fix it, and alas, my phone was now completely retired.
I bid farewell to it in an emotional scene, and insurance helped me get a replacement. My replacement managed to meet the ground of a concrete carpark building on another damn cold night where I was fumbling around to get it out of my bag, and RIP another phone screen.
Clearly I need a phone and case that can withstand my inability to function in anything less than 10 degrees, despite my childhood years which were spent grooming me for the cold in the South Island.
Considering the above, I think the Otterbox Symmetry Case in Glacier would be appropriate for me.
Please consider the plight of the foolish girl who managed to keep an S2 alive for 3 years, but has had the worst luck with it's siblings!
Many thanks, and Happy Friday!
Perhaps if my phone had been in an otterbox case in the first case it wouldn't have started the domino effect of bad luck with my Samsung phones!!!!! It all started one day when I had to go and pick up some groceries for my elderly mum. Upon getting to her house to unload, I, in my wisdom, placed my much loved Samsung Galaxy S3 on the back of my car while I was taking the goods inside, had a lovely cuppa with mum and a chat and then got back into the car and drove home :-( Once home I realised I was down a phone and promptly backtracked and did find the phone on the road not far from mums - but very smashed up :-( :-( (at least I had my Sim Card!) Back to the good ole faithful Samsung S2 it was for me! I then decided to get a new S5 as I really was finding things hard with work with the ole S2 and the battery life was a bit sad. So I purchased a Brand New Samsung S5 and was loving it but sadly was only able to love this one for about 6 weeks as someone decided they would "love it" more than me and it was stolen!! I was away from home and working when this happened - I had some lovely people try and ring it for hours but whoever had it decided they needed it more than me just chose to ignore - I blocked it and don't know what use it could have been for them - but unfortunately it never did come back - police reports done and was very hopeful for a while but now I think it has been pulled apart and sold perhaps for parts!? I was as you can imagine GUTTED!!! :-( :-( :-( So looks like the good ole Samsung S2 would get some use again! I really could not afford to buy another new phone (and my contents insurance excess had been increased due to being broken into!! yeah they never miss out huh! and was $1,000 - so couldn't go down that route either) So after a very little while of using the ole faithful again decided to buy a second hand S3 off a lady - it was only 5 months old and she had the receipt of purchase showing this - so though yeah for $200 this would be a better option for me - should have had the alarm bells ringing when it NEEDED to be picked up tonight as someone else would buy it otherswise!! So sent my 17 year old Son to pick it up as I was not home until the next day. This phone had a crack right across the screen!!!! I was Broken (may seem small but was just about over it all with regards to phones by this point in time!) You could really not see it too well when the phone was switched on - which is how she had flashed it to my son when he handed the cash to her. I did try and get this sorted once I got home the next day but she just said that it was advertised this way :-( :-( :-( :-( (defiantely wasn't and of course her add was deleted as soon as I purchased). So as you can see I really have had some pretty bad luck with regards to my phones! I add a photo of the phones I talk about and of course that good ole faithful S2 is what I am using to take the pic! So if you can find it in your hearts to award me with a New Samsung Galaxy S6 it would not only make my day but my year!!!! And I would like to protect it in a Beautiful Otterbox Symmetry Case in Glacier!!! :-) :-) :-) ;-) (have added the picture on the Facebook one but not sure how I can do this here???)
My story is one of a man, too stubborn for his own good.
When I first met my partner he had a shiny new s4. It was so much fun, we never took selfies together but instead spent most of our time watching other people's fail compilation videos on YouTube.
After a few months, my partner went to the local with his work mates and I remember the look on his face when he came home and revealed to me the first ever minor crack on his screen.
I hate to be the annoying girlfriend but I had no choice. "you need a proper case honey."
"I've got one!" He proclaimed. A very nice charger case, which is only ever on his phone when it's going flat.
I rolled my eyes but let it go.
He learned to live with it and after another few months went by he went out again and came home with another funny tale of how his screen got even more cracks. It may have been funny but that's when he started having issues! Charger cords suddenly didn't fit properly, and his mobile charger case feeling rather loose and wobbly, not something it should be described as!
"now you'll need to get it repaired!" I said enthusiastically and even got some quotes together for him.
"My Irish side says 'it still works! Save the money!" He said, chuckling a little.
"Alright, but don't complain to me when you have no phone once it stops working!" I called after him as he walked off. I was not happy about feeling the need to nag.
Sure enough, one more outing and the man returns with tales of how much of a fool he made of himself and how he has even further cracked his screen.
"I can't believe you aren't listening to me and getting it fixed!" I trilled to him, "can't you see you have maybe 2 outings left?"
I then did the worst thing possible.
I gave him 'the look'.
He went and stayed with his parents for awhile... And I learnt an important lesson.
Don't be a cow, have some patience and hopefully the broken phone will have it's own feature story in mighty ape with Otter box.
We, I mean HE says he would like a defender case please..
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I’ve had my Sony Xperia for about 3 years now. The day I bought it, I also bought a protective case for it, I look at the new cases these days and mine just seems like a flimsy piece of plastic-haha, and for the first few weeks I was very careful with the handling of my new closest friend. After a while the inevitable happened, it fell, approximately 1m from my pocket onto a concrete driveway. I was mortified, dread ran through my entire body, starting from my chest and pulsing through my body because I was sure that I had just smashed my new phone. Fortunately, that little piece of plastic (case) had done well and protected my precious new friend. Thus began 3 years of a long friendship filled with good memories, dark days and funny moments. Throughout our friendship, there were multiple times where my brother in arms was dropped and I had that feeling of dread, however, each time I retrieved my fallen comrade, he would surprise me by having only a small dent in the corners of the phone or a small scratch on his face. The body armour, which seemed like a trivial piece of plastic, exceeded my wildest expectations and has done a great job of protecting my comrade. It took the most damage during our long relationship and slowly began to lose pieces and start breaking. Now it actually is a useless accessory, but is kept on due to the great job it has performed. As time went by, I got more and more comfortable when I dropped it as each time it would be fine, even when it got hit by a rogue wave, it was in my pocket, and it still managed to function properly. I began to believe that we would never be separated as the resilience of my old friend was second only to the impenetrable skin of the man of steel himself. What I didn’t notice was that the years of trauma had done internal damage to my comrade. Slowly internal processes began to creep in, thought process began to get sluggish, memory was lost and energy levels would decrease at alarming rates. I did not want to accept it, but one day, I dropped him once more, with a sharp crack, the case and phone became two separate pieces. All the damage seemed superficial and even then it was only minor, however the damage to his psyche was so extensive and this was the final straw. After the fall nothing would be the same again, he turned on but was too volatile and unpredictable to be trusted with the life and death responsibilities he once was. What was once a great phone and a proficient ally, now a shell of his former self, never to be used again. My brother in arm was given a hero’s funeral and honoured by entering the famous ‘Hall of Phones’, whose only occupant is my first comrade, a Nokia 6121. A 21 gun salute was performed as was The Last Post as he was laid to rest. Forever lost, but never forgotten. He will be sorely missed, but we must celebrate his life and the good times had during his long and illustrious career as my best Smartphone. I am currently using my work phone which is an S3 mini. It is not the same and will never replace my fallen brother.
If the powers at be see fit to give me a new partner, I would hope that he was capable of honouring the memory of my fallen comrade and clad in the ‘Otterbox Symmetry- Gridlock’ battle armour. Simple and tough-least we forget.
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Lost my Sony Experia during the recent floods we had here Paraparaumu. Had parked up to catch the train and as I walked back towards the station over the bridge. I was checking my mail and unfortunately I didn't see the branch on the path, I tripped and my phone flew out of my hand, hit the handrail, bounced twice and did a standing into the raging river. No chance of recovery and I was left with an hours journey with no phone, oh the horror!
Guess the commuter case would be fit best.
You haven't mentioned the closing date for this (that I could see), so just on the offchance that 'm in time:
My brother jumped into a spa pool with my gorgeous Samsung Galaxy in his pocket. I freaking loved that phone, and no phone I've had since (especially my current HTC beast) can compare
Oh and also, if I were to win this I would totally rock the purple case
I may have left this to last minute...I may even be too late...But do not fret the best story is at the bottom of the list (not really).
I wish this I could say that I had some miracle Blue Eyes White Dragon moment where I left my smartphone just out of reach, to watch it smash into a handful of ity-bity pieces. But that is not the case. I do not even have anything close to a phone considered smart. (Currently...I may do after Sunday...We shall see.)
The only story I could tell (type) to you is what happened one fateful night at a job I had a couple of years ago. Let's set the mood. I was the projectionist on duty at the Kaikoura mayfair theatre, inside the tiny fireproof cube known as the projection booth.
The indescribable sound of analogue 35mm film playing and the hum of the electric arc producing light are still vivid in my mind. Anyway..It was close to half time, which meant time to switch reels and change out the copper coated carbon rods. Because the light inside the lamp housing was busted, I used my cellphone to provide light to change them.
To cut this story down, basically I ignited the arc ( it burns very hot), and without realising it I left my phone inside the lamp housing. "Here's that YuGiOh moment!" I quickly pulled out the phone with a pair of insulated pliers, the movie went dark and the phone still worked! (Albeit slightly melted on the keypad) Many complaints were fielded.
If I won, I think I would need the Purple Amethyst in a eye catching Pink!
On the way home from doing the grocery shop, my daughter fell asleep in the car. Once I had put all the groceries in the house I went back out to see if I could successfully transfer her from the car to her bed. During this prices, walking from the car to my house with daughter asleep in my arms, somehow my phone fell out of my pocket and landed on the ground, corner edge first. It all happened inn slow motion and inn was powerless! I could do nothing except gasp and carry on walking, leaving it where it had fallen.
Once my daughter was in bed I was able to rush to my phones aid. As suspected, the top corners were scraped and detente and the screen had smashed starting from the top right corner. Luckily the phone is still usable. It wasn't until later, on snapchat, that I discovered my new selfie abilities. The screens most damage is over the front facing camera. Usually this does not bother me but as my husband and I were going on our honeymoon the next day, I was quite annoyed. No loving selfie on the beach or embarrassing sleeping ones on the plane. I have a good track record with phones and as I was wearing ASICS with deep pockets I have no idea how my phone fell to the floor. The only conclusion that I can come to is that it jumped!
P.S, the purple amythyst cover would look great on and my the st S6.
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So the story begins the lights go down, we are in a darkened theater in the middle of the night, no-one is around other then the tech crew that seem to never leave. It is seldom that the theater is not alight with millions of watts of illumination, but today was not such a day, for as the artificial mist rolled in, the next cue was recorded and the stage came alight in a glowing red to reveal the set of the current play, Anne Frank.
With such light I managed to catch a glimpse of the time and realized I had but a mere 10 mins to finish patching in the sound board. With that upmost haste I whipped out my phone and flicked on the flashlight. Mere moments later upon deftly uncoiling a snake, it slipped in my hand and so crashing down my phone went. Screen shattered yet still functional with a corner completely unresponsive and black.
But wait it does not stop there, after the final touches were added the tech crew and I retired for the night, with myself staying over at a friends place, and with an up and a jolt I woke in the night only to thwack my head on a table and send a vase of water tumbling over me. It was only minutes yet it felt like hours, in the haste to clean the water I failed to notice the disasters at hand. My phone drowned. But the story still has a happy turn. The phone now lives on, with portions of the screen dead and the camera no longer able to see my beautiful face :(
Dear mighty ape, I emplore you to put me out of my misery and if I win, would love to ve provided with the darkest Glacier case you offer.
Our daughter had just started school and there was an orientation day for new parents. While the daughter and wife were listening quietly, the younger son decided to start running around and making LOTS of noise. I decided to go out on the playground with him to keep him entertained.
He played on the playground for a while, but being three is rather difficult to play on the big kids playground. So, I decided to show him my old basketball tricks (that I haven't done for at least 15 years). All going well dribbling the ball, shooting, etc and dribbling through my legs while the son chased it...until my wife's phone drops out of my back pocket and onto the concrete court! CRACK!
The phone now has a lovely crack from bottom right to top left and has a fireworks explosion look to it. Oops.
Oh, and the case I would like is: OtterBox Commuter Case for Samsung Galaxy S6 - Black
Walking out to my car to head to work. The cat shot past me as I was going down the concrete stairs into the garage. Missed the first step, dropped my galaxy note, tried to catch it and failed miserably. Then to add insult to injury, kicked it on the half bounce off the concrete floor. On phone is now 2 pieces of screen, 3 pieces of motherboard, a bent battery and numerous bits of case. Concrete, steel caps and phone are not a good combination. I think a black defender otterbox case would be great for next time. I'd be a great product tester
One fateful morning, mere hours before a crucial university deadline representing a solid 50% of my paper grade, a cruel series of events driven by stress and sleep deprivation befell me. In the forty-eighth hour of my wakefulness I took it upon myself to cleanse my eyes of their crusty exhaustion beneath the redeeming waterfall that some might call the shower.
Though I felt myself grow rejuvenated, unbeknownst to me, the healing waters had overflown their bounds pooling thickly upon the floors of the realm known commonly as the bathroom, soaking my freshly laid out garments.
"No matter!" said I, with renewed vigour and determination as I set about remedying the situation. I dried the floors and placed the soiled garments into the mystical water tumbling device called "washing machine".
The crisis was averted and all was well... or so it should have been but for the fact that my beloved cellphonular friend lay unsuspecting in the soft cradle of my trouser pocket, and I ignorant to it's impending doom as that mystical device filled with soap and water and began to rumble and tumble.
A beloved friend was lost to me that day to a senseless, watery death. Never shall I forget the soul crushing pain I felt when I looked upon my cellphones lifeless screen and saw not a flicker of light nor heard ever again the humble vibration of a text message received.
And yet this competition brings new hope that the scar on my heart might be soothed by the balm of the black OtterBox Commuter Case.
New years we had all the children at our place. (His, mine, and ours.) We decided to go for a trip to the zoo, which involved the smaller children in the car, and the eldest with me on the back of my motorbike. We get to the zoo and are half way round when it starts to rain. Being all paranoid about my phone I keep it in my hand held under my jacket when not taking photos of the children and cute animals.
Once we had seen enough, and the fact that we were all soaked was getting to the younger children, it was time to head home. Not wanting to risk my phone on a motorbike in the rain I put it inside the plastic bag of the kids snacks, stopped to add hubby's as well since he thought I was on to something. I tied it securely, and then put it inside the bag in the boot.
Once we got home and unloaded the car, we got everyone into dry clothes and changed and I proceeded to make the usual hot drinks you would expect in this situation.
As I go to retrieve the youngest's sippy cup from the snacks bag I notice that the lid has come off. And the no spill cup has indeed spilled. It has drowned not only my 2 month old prized phone, but also my husbands 6 week old one.
Most expensive zoo trip ever.