Size and weight considerations for future Openmoko devices

[Ian Stirling]

Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote:
> 
> Am 03.05.2007 um 13:32 schrieb Ian Stirling:
> 
>> wim delvaux wrote:
>>> FWIW,
>>> most of these 'light' phones do seem so 'fragile'.  It looks like any 
>>> drop from pocket or table might smash them to bits.  Less weight 
>>> generally means more flimsy devices.
> 
> No. It is easy to make a fragile looking device that is robust and vice 
> versa.
> 
> It is more the mixture of materials that determines the robustness and 
> finishing which determines how robust it looks. And finally a smaller 
> device has less inertia so it is more robust. Look at an ant. It can 
> fall from 10m and survives...
> 
That's not solely robustness though, air resistance helps lots too.
I suppose it's not that long given current trends till phones can be 
dropped from any distance as they'll hit terminal velocity at a safe speed.
I suppose some stuff - microSD cards, for example, already can be 
dropped from any height.