Update: Nexus One becomes space cowboy, pays dearly for the privillage.

Matthew Reyes, self titled “Freelance scientific molecular evolutionary biological videographic NASA microgravitational & space education specialist”, decided to strap a couple N1s to a model rocket and have it capture the entire ride up…and down. The laws of physics don’t bend for anyone or anything. The first phone went up naked, unprotected by such physics defying contraptions like a parachute. The end result was a painful death. The second one however was attached to a parachute. In the end, it is the second phone that survives and brings back the sweet footage of the whole trip. Hop inside and check it out!

Update

I’d like to point out that I flubbed this one. I wasn’t careful with distinguishing two different phones and tests, resulting in a factually flawed article. For that, I apologize. The phone that was smashed and destroyed as originally posted was actually the first of two phones. The latter of which you see in the video inside, blissfully twirling down to earth compliments of its parachute.

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