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G-Form iPhone 5 Case Tested By 100,000 Foot Drop [Video]

G-Form iPhone 5 Case Tested By 100,000 Foot Drop [Video]

Posted January 4, 2013 at 7:32pm by iClarified
G-Form, a company who makes protective cases for the iPhone and iPad, sent an iPod touch to an altitude of 100,000 feet in order to test their iPhone 5 case.

In the video, the iPod is lifted to over 100,000 feet by a weather balloon which bursts at altitude, then releasing the iPod to free-fall to Earth.

Unfortunately, the camera stopped functioning after reaching altitude so there is only footage of the way up. G-Form released a similar video for their iPad case.


Take a look below...


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lgcomms
lgcomms - January 6, 2013 at 10:54pm
A Tad lame, I must say?????
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Ary
Ary - January 6, 2013 at 12:57am
I don't think this Video is Real, Why they did not show up the iPhone which it working before iPhone take off? Just showing the iPhone already landed and working ... waist of time ! I don't believe !
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JudgeMe
JudgeMe - January 5, 2013 at 1:59pm
Im with you on this
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?? - January 5, 2013 at 3:09am
That was an iPod touch?
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Thoune
Thoune - January 5, 2013 at 2:15am
Drop test on sandy area! Come on man!!!
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zetaprime
zetaprime - January 5, 2013 at 1:36am
I want to see one dropped from orbit and survive re-entry, or even better, 40 km/sec entry from the Kuiper belt.
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Gizmo967
Gizmo967 - January 5, 2013 at 1:13am
It's not even iPhone 5, it's iPod! Check 2:36 it has facetime icon which is only available (as separate icon) on iPod and not the iPhone. Why would they lie if it's real? Cheaper to destroy iPod?
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Gizmo967
Gizmo967 - January 5, 2013 at 1:27am
It's called iPhone 5 and uploaded by G-Form. The video name I mean. How misleading is that? Not just iClarified, guys doing fake marketing also.. And the guy in the video keeps calling it iPhone 5..
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xi
xi - January 5, 2013 at 12:46am
the gods must be crazy.....Xi traded his coke bottle for an iphone5
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Gorbi Dhogg
Gorbi Dhogg - January 4, 2013 at 8:58pm
This is totally lame ... there's NO way to prove that it was the actual phone that crash-landed due to the camera outage. A totally worthless publicity stunt.
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Jailbreak iPhone 5
Jailbreak iPhone 5 - January 4, 2013 at 7:52pm
Str8 waist of time
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Al
Al - January 4, 2013 at 7:47pm
Thank god for this. I keep dropping my phone from the motherfuckin jet.
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thevmax
thevmax - January 4, 2013 at 7:42pm
WOW! I can't wait to drop my iphone from 19 miles up in the sky! Wait a minute!?! What the hell am I talking about!
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