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Video: This is what happens when you shoot a ‘bulletproof’ iPhone

19
Mar
2014

Earlier this week we wrote about the Holy Grail, a new smartphone screen protector that maker Sir Lancelot’s Armor touted as being made from “bulletproof” glass. Yes, there was a reason that we put the words “bulletproof” in scare quotes: While such glass may indeed be the same type of glass used in bulletproof windows, it probably wasn’t strong enough to stop an actual bullet from doing serious damage to your iPhone. And sure enough, Ars Technica has decided to do yeoman’s work by actually firing a gun at a Holy Grail-equipped iPhone… and the results were not pretty. Ars’s Lee Hutchinson took a friend’s old iPhone 4 equipped with the Grail to a local shooting range and fired more

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