I am estimating it was roughly four feet, give or take a few inches. I went to grab it off the surface, and wow this phone is very slipped naked. It slipped right of my hands in the worst possible fashion. Screen first driving right into the ground horizontally. Battery cover pops off and flies at least a foot or so away, and the battery pops out and goes the same direction. I didn't even want to pick the phone up at first, I just kind of stared down in amazement at my own stupidity for taking my otterbox off due to bulkiness moments before. I pick it up, flip it over and to my surprise no crack on the screen. I was really expecting the screen to be cracked. This was on concrete flooring as well. Fortified glass FTW.
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Just dropped my naked GNex from four feet...
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Do not try to above at home, it was performed by a VERY lucky soul 
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Mine slipped off my lap last week onto the concrete from my truck 4 feet. Landed on the bottom right corner. Chipped off a good size piece of plastic on he corner, and scratched a few other places. But the screen itself is fine. I was surprised!
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The plastic housing is pretty cheap and easy to replace yourself.. I don't know where you can get it for the LTE version but for the GSM there are some links here:
Galaxy Nexus Rear Housing Replacement - xda-developers
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I dropped mine from perhaps 3 feet onto concrete. But it was in my Defender case. Heh heh.
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Dropped mine caseless from my lap while getting out of truck. Phone slammed into the road and skittered about 5 feet across the road face down. Picked it up and the glass was perfectly clean with one .25mm pock mark of gouged glass under the softkeys. The plastic was slightly scuffed too. I was also scared to pick it up when I realized what I had done.
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It's not gorilla glass, it's some cheapy alternative, which isn't up to the job IMO. Never had an issue with gorilla glass screen phones before, always went naked, never a scratch.
Never dropped my GNex or even fumbled it, never put it in a pocket with keys, yet a big scratch. I'm not dumb, obviously something has come into contact with the screen (probably a piece of soft cheese), but I'm saying I've been super careful.
Get a screen protector folks.
http://androidforums.com/samsung-ga...-glass-used-galaxy-nexus-screen-terrible.html
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Gorilla glass is just a brand name. Fortified glass is fortified glass. You probably had the phone in your pocket with a few grains of sand or dirt. Be more careful.
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Please don't lie to people. Gorilla glass means nothing. The Gnex does not have cheap glass on it. It is fortified, scratch resistant glass just like gorilla glass. In fact, Samsung has their own substrate/glass division, they know what they're doing.
Everyone has their own stories of how their gorilla glass got scratched, or how their non-gorilla glass didn't ever scratch. Good glass does help, but it all comes down to taking care of your phone. I personally hate screen protectors and would rather have a few scratches than look at a crappy screen protector all day.
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samsung-corning didn't supply fortified glass/GG for smartphone display.
they supplied glasses for LCD, and LCD TV.
Samsung-mobile-display(SMD) got their GG from corning directly (10% of their product) and rest were soda lime from asahi. (90%)
so GNex's fortified glass are soda lime from asahi.
corning and SMD made an agreement to make a co joint company to supply glasses for OLED display last year oct but that company isnt set yet.
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I'm not lying, it's not top notch glass, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1m1pTOowKo. I've actually managed to re-create the scratch on another part of the screen with a piece of Gruy
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Well mildly amusing. Although the glass on the GNex does suck, and that's no joke.
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Plenty of people have scratched Gorilla Glass screens. Just because they have managed to scratch their screens does not mean GG sucks, and just because you managed to scratch your screen without figuring out how means the glass on the Gnex sucks?? No.
I would like to see side by side tests myself of various screen damage tests between a droid razr and Gnex, myself - but just because GG is "arguably" better (and by "arguably", I mean a lot of you suckers by into hype naming) doesn't necessarily mean the Gnex glass sucks, even if GG is better with scratching, breaking, and marring. Without side by side tests, this is all just a bunch of pissing and moaning.
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