Although the issue of robustness and resilience of our gadgets should be major, most users ignore it or even believe that a case will save them. Experience has shown that the main cause of the renewal of our devices is their destruction due to an accident. And the most common of these is the natural by mistake, drop. Recently, the insurance company SquareTrade Europe is dealing with insurance electronics decided to study their vulnerability.
The test deployment of devices from a certain height and then dip them in the water is not the most reliable methodology, but there seems to be unfair to one of the participants. Anyway the negative lead captured the Apple iPad mini with a score of 7.5. Second most vulnerable to accidents device with 7 points the Samsung Galaxy S4 and third the iPad Air. See the full list of the most vulnerable devices according to tests of SquareTrade Europe.
1. iPad Mini/7.5
2. Samsung Galaxy S4/7
3. iPad Air/6.5
4. Samsung Galaxy S3/6.5
5. iPhone 5C/6
By Nicole P.
