Careless: 75% of Malaysian smartphone users surveyed have damaged their smartphones over 2.8 times in the past five years.
In Sunnyvale on July 18, observers gathered around a machine to see whether smartphone glass dropped from more than a yard at a 40-degree angle could survive a fall onto rough sandpaper.
A loud “whap” resounded, and the glass found in some inexpensive phones sold in India and China showed cracks all over the surface.
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