For me, it's more of a fidget-spinner. I keep popping it off and on when bored.

Moreover, the battery coming out seemed to act as a shock absorber. If you do throw it hard enough for it to come out, and that was rare for me, at least something gives instead of breaks.

Ah, the memories of classmates playing soccer with phones in high school... phones could run MSN, browse websites (without JS! The .mobi site owners were just forced to make sites lightweight), play Java-based games, had replaceable screen covers, honestly what more should we want? That it's now open source Android instead of proprietary Symbian is great, but slap a touchscreen on it for web browsing and upgrade it from GPRS to 4G or so, and theoretically we could just have nice things.

It happened to me repeatedly with two different phones, but never when I had a protective case on the phone -- and I always buy one.

It has for me, and that was a Caterpillar ruggedized phone.