G-Form Demonstrates New XTREME iPhone 5 Case In 100,000 Foot Drop Test

G-Form is a company that is known for creating protective cases for mobile devices, like the iPad for example, and they’re also known for putting their protective cases through extreme tests. Well if you’re in the market for protective cases for your iPhone 5 or iOS device, G-Form has announced that come CES 2013, they will be releasing a new line of cases under the company’s XTREME lineup, and for starters the company has released a video on YouTube in which they put the XTREME iPhone 5 case to the test by dropping it from over 100,000 feet. In all fairness an iPod was used to test this rather than the iPhone 5, but based on the results, it looks like the iPod managed to survive the drop, so we expect that the iPhone 5 should as well. While we doubt that many of you guys will be dropping your iPhones from over 100,000 feet, hopefully this is reassurance that when your phone slips out of your hands and falls to the ground, nothing will happen to it.

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G-Form drops an iPod touch in a case from 100,000 feet, rivals Felix’s antics (video)

GForm drops a caseprotected iPhone 5 from 100,000 feet, rivals Baumgartner at his own game video

Just because Felix Baumgartner set records by jumping from 128,000 feet doesn’t mean he has a lock on stratospheric freefall stunts: see G-Form’s latest video (after the break) as proof. In keeping with the tradition of launching a case line and then subjecting it to abuse on camera, the company dropped a new Xtreme iPhone 5 case from a balloon that reached 100,000 feet before it and its payload — which actually happened to be a 5th gen iPod touch — fell to the Nevada desert. Not surprisingly, that we’re hearing about the story means the drop went as planned — apart from needing some time to warm up after a plunge through -60F skies, the MP3 player emerged in fine shape. Is the freefall a publicity play that won’t affect how anyone uses an Xtreme in real life? You bet. Still, it’s one of the more dramatic drop tests we’ll witness, and evidence the case can take some exceptional abuse; after all, it’s not every day that our mobile devices reach terminal velocity.

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