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Smash the iPhone! Drop it! - will it survive?

PC World has broken the hearts of many iPhone wannabe owners. It bought one, and then trashed it.

The excuse? Well, explained Eric Butterfield, it's all in the interests of Science:

It would be a shame--after waiting hours in line and spending $500 to $600 on an iPhone--to lose it to a minor mishap.

To see how well Apple's phone can stand up to abuse, we stressed it with increasingly rigorous scratch and drop tests, which we informally conducted in the PC World kitchen, hallway, and back alley.

And for the delicate of stomach, a warning: do NOT WATCH THE VIDEO! What video? This one...

You were warned...

And PC World's conclusion? "There's no need to coddle this sexy little device." It survived everything they could throw at it:

First, we released it from waist height onto a carpeted floor. Then we let it fall from chest height onto a hard linoleum floor. Lastly, we let it slip from our fingers and bounce onto a concrete sidewalk from head height--as if we had been talking on the phone.

The iPhone not only continue to work after each drop test, impressively it still looked good as well.