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

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Posted January 4, 2013 at 7:32pm by Shalom Levytam

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.

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Comments (12)

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lgcomms - January 6, 2013 at 10:54pm

A Tad lame, I must say?????

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 !

JudgeMe - January 5, 2013 at 1:59pm

Im with you on this

Guest - January 5, 2013 at 3:09am

That was an iPod touch?

Thoune - January 5, 2013 at 2:15am

Drop test on sandy area! Come on man!!!

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.

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?

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..

xi - January 5, 2013 at 12:46am

the gods must be crazy.....Xi traded his coke bottle for an iphone5

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.

Al - January 4, 2013 at 7:47pm

Thank god for this. I keep dropping my phone from the jet.

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 am I talking about!

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