It's incredible watching it slide ever-so-slowly on a surface that I previously thought was pretty much level.
This should be a feature of all phones. There's nearly zero number of times I want my phone to move from where I've placed it.
AT&T has a phone that's some serious shit. We got a demo the other day... and that thing resists drops, high temps, freezing, water splash (or underwater to a couple of feet... don't remember).
It was some serious hardware. Of course, it's not running Android, yet if you want indestructible, I was impressed with this thing.
Me, personally: My phones last approx 2 years. My iPhone 5 (got it around 1 year ago I think) is all busted up. I'm not an Apple lover, yet this thing is tough. EVERY panel on it is broken, bent, shattered... and it still works without a hitch. Props to Apple on that.
My N9 is well over a year old and has zero broken external parts. And of course the phone itself still works.
Given that a smartphone has virtually no moving parts inside, continued functionality absent being submerged or crushed is not a particularly noteworthy achievement.
That said, I've dropped it a lot of times and it only has one crack on the back so far
> The thing slides off of pretty much anything
This is incredibly true. An anecdote: I was sitting in the waiting room at my dentist's office; I knew I'd have a wait, so I turned on the access point so that I could do some work and set the phone on the seat next to me. 15 seconds later, it dropped to the carpet. WTF, so I picked it back up and put it on the center of the chair seat. It fell off 2 minutes later. WTF^2, so I picked it back up and, intentionally and very carefully, put it back on the chair seat. It didn't fall off, but it took me 3 tries to get the phone to sit on a cloth chair seat without falling off. And I'm sure it would have fallen off given more time.