How does the glass on my iPhone break?

Shattered glass is unfortunately a very common problem for both the 3G and 3Gs iPhone. In fact, it is perhaps the most common issue that iPhone owners face related to accidental damage. So how does the glass on an iPhone usually break?

The outer glass on the iPhone can break for a number of reasons, but broken glass is most commonly caused by the impact from a drop or fall. Even though broken glass is generally caused by a drop, a drop does not always result in broken glass. If you are an iPhone owner, you have likely dropped your iPhone dozens of times and not suffered any damage at all. So what specifically causes the glass to break? Well, as you might imagine there are several factors that influence an impact resulting in broken glass.

The obvious influencing factors are the height of the fall and the surface of impact. The higher the fall, the greater the force of impact, the more likely the glass is to break. Similarly, the harder the surface of impact, the more likely the glass is to break. Of course this is common sense; anyone would rather drop their iPhone from 2 feet onto carpet than from 10 feet onto concrete. But what are the other not-so-common-sense factors that affect glass breaking on the iPhone?   A face down drop is the best way to break the glass on an iPhone.

How ever you break you iPhone, Computer Heaven has got you covered…