Yep, that's pretty much what my first smartphone [not a Centura] ended up looking like...after I broke its glass.
It makes me cringe just thinking about it.
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Not all phones have gorilla glass...or glass at all.
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It makes me cringe just thinking about it.
Yeah...it made my jaw drop when it happened. I didn't know whether to laugh [because of the boneheaded thing I did that made it break] or cry [because I really hadn't anticipated replacing my almost brand new phone at that point]. I think I laughed and cried.It makes me cringe just thinking about it.
Maybe the Centura does have a glass screen. Maybe not gorilla glass but I found this photo online and it appears to be glass. I've dropped plenty of plastic phones and have never seen anything like this.
Ouch! That's not plastic.
We used to have a garden patio that looked like that.
If the device has a capacitive display then it's almost certainly a glass rather than plastic screen covering it.
Revenant Ghost
Android Expert
Maybe the Centura does have a glass screen. Maybe not gorilla glass but I found this photo online and it appears to be glass. I've dropped plenty of plastic phones and have never seen anything like this.
For some reason, the cracked screen on that phone is making my skin crawl.
Rukbat
Extreme Android User
1) People who tell you to spend more money on something should hand you the money. What you can afford is no one's business. And I say that as someone who lived on the left side of the menu most of his professional life. I own a Note 3. You own a $39 ST phone? That's nice - how's your carrier's coverage over here? Telling you to buy a more expensive phone is just as rude as asking how much you earn.
2) I've seen gorilla glass scratched by something very common - a diamond engagement ring. Decent screen protectors are less than $5. I may be violating my own rule, but I think that if you can afford a phone, you can afford a $3 screen protector. It's cheaper than a new screen. Or a yard of plastic fabric from Walmart, split among about 10 friends. It's just a bit thick, but it should work, and that's about 20 cents per phone.
3) Nextel used to make a phone (Motorola i58, IIRC) that was made basically for industrial use. Hard, resilient, flexible plastic case and I swear the screen was transparent steel. I watched someone drop one off the 4th floor of a building under construction, right onto a concrete parking lot. He was lucky that no one stole it before he got down to the ground and grabbed it. (Oh, it had a couple of barely visible scratches on the case.) Worked fine. It was also pretty water resistant - you could use it in the rain. U-G-L-Y phone. Big, thick. But don't hurl it at a wall unless you're prepared to replace a piece of wall. (The battery cover would pop off and the battery would come out if you dropped it from your belt to a vinyl floor, but nothing broke.)
Get a teen-ager to carry something like that today? Maybe as punishment for a felony conviction.
2) I've seen gorilla glass scratched by something very common - a diamond engagement ring. Decent screen protectors are less than $5. I may be violating my own rule, but I think that if you can afford a phone, you can afford a $3 screen protector. It's cheaper than a new screen. Or a yard of plastic fabric from Walmart, split among about 10 friends. It's just a bit thick, but it should work, and that's about 20 cents per phone.
3) Nextel used to make a phone (Motorola i58, IIRC) that was made basically for industrial use. Hard, resilient, flexible plastic case and I swear the screen was transparent steel. I watched someone drop one off the 4th floor of a building under construction, right onto a concrete parking lot. He was lucky that no one stole it before he got down to the ground and grabbed it. (Oh, it had a couple of barely visible scratches on the case.) Worked fine. It was also pretty water resistant - you could use it in the rain. U-G-L-Y phone. Big, thick. But don't hurl it at a wall unless you're prepared to replace a piece of wall. (The battery cover would pop off and the battery would come out if you dropped it from your belt to a vinyl floor, but nothing broke.)
Get a teen-ager to carry something like that today? Maybe as punishment for a felony conviction.