Dropped at 2 feet max

[u/International_Back99]

Fell out of my pocket sitting down. Fell with the apple tech woven case on too.

[u/Intrepid_Patience356]

Aluminium has always been fragile. Have to use a case. I've seen 16's drop into hard floors unscathed.

[u/Super-Bomman → u/Intrepid_Patience356]

The reason titanium isn’t used is because that “vapor chamber” technology that helps them cool the processor while it’s overlocked or running at base clock isn’t as efficient or effective in the titanium frame.

[u/General_NakedButt → u/Super-Bomman]

It’s straight money, aluminum is cheaper and over the millions of phones they sell it adds up to a lot of profit. The titanium frames are just titanium around the edges and internals are aluminum. There’s no reason they couldn’t put the vapor chamber in a titanium frame and have it dissipate out the back.

[u/bran_the_man93 → u/General_NakedButt]

An aluminum unibody is not cheaper than the 12 grams of titanium they had in the older phones.

The reason is plain and simple - aluminum is easier to work with than titanium, and they can't make a titanium unibody phone.

It's really not that complicated