Motorola just released a comprehensive infographic detailing just how often people have to deal with shattered screens, as well as the most common scenarios resulting in cracked displays.
Titled "Cracked Screens and Broken Hearts," this infographic follows the big launch of the Droid Turbo 2 for Verizon Wireless, or the Moto X Force for the global market. The Droid Turbo 2 powerhouse has a slew of neat specs and features, but its main point of sale is its shatterproof display, thanks to Motorola's ShatterShield technology.
The Droid Turbo 2 will not end up with a cracked screen even if it's dropped onto the floor, on concrete or other hard surfaces that would typically cause a phone's display to shatter.
The vast majority of devices, however, don't come with shatterproof displays and more often than not, people have to shell out notable amounts of money to replace cracked screens.
In case you were wondering just how often people crack their phone screens, Motorola has the answer to that.
"Every two seconds *CRACK* someone accidentally drops *CRACK* their smartphone, leaving a shattered screen *CRACK* and a shattered heart," notes Motorola.
The company surveyed 6,000 people across six countries to get the data for this infographic, offering detailed stats on cracked screens.
According to this survey, 50 percent of phone owners on a worldwide scale had to deal with a cracked screen. Of the six countries included in this study, India came out on top with the most cracked displays: a hefty 65 percent of people surveyed in India said they had a shattered display at one point or another. The stats further list Mexico with 64 percent, China with 63 percent, Brazil with 50 percent, and the UK and U.S. with 38 percent and 34 percent, respectively.
When it comes to the most common scenarios that result in cracked screens, Motorola calls them "phone fumbles" and lists "grip and slip" with 50 percent, "pocket drop" with 32 percent and "lap launch" with 27 percent, as these are the most common ones. Grip and slip involves dropping the phone from your hand, pocket drop refers to having the phone fall out of a pocket, while lap launch refers to that all-too-common scenario when you have the phone on your lap and it drops when you stand, because you forgot you had it there.
Motorola also found out that 21 percent of people worldwide currently have a phone with a broken display. At the same time, 23 percent of smartphone owners globally continued to use their device even after the screen cracked, although they cut their fingers in the broken glass, and 42 percent of global smartphone owners cite high costs as the main reason for postponing fixing their cracked display.
Further highlighting just how dreadful it is to end up with a cracked display, Motorola notes that seven percent of the people surveyed would rather have a private selfie accidentally make its way online than drop their smartphone and shatter its screen.
The infographic offers plenty of other details, but all aim to prove the same thing: accidents can and will happen, and shattered screens are far more common than we'd like. In this context, Motorola's new shatterproof smartphone sounds increasingly tempting, and that's the whole point of the company's infographic.
