Originally Posted by wilnj (Post 12538507)

I was at my brother's house one afternoon and my car was parked in the driveway. At the time I was driving my E46 330i. The boys were playing basketball.

On my way home, about 25 minutes later, my brother calls asking if my nephew's phone is in the car. Not sure how or why it could be but I ask my son to look around but it's not inside the car.

My brother asks me to look ON the trunk. He was looking at the tracking app and could see the phone going down the highway at 80.

I pulled over and sure enough, it was up against the lip spoiler. I guess the silicone case and the wind pinning it down held it there despite some high speed on/off ramp pulls.

Originally Posted by masraum (Post 12538560)

I've been using thin cases with silicone skins forever. I once bought something else, that turned out to be a fairly hard, slick plastic which is lacking one of the most important parts of a phone case, the ability to make the phone harder to drop. If the case is grippy, then I'm less likely to drop it and it's less likely to get broken so a thin, light duty case is plenty. I think I've driven off with my phone on a car twice, and both times were probably ~20 years ago.

Originally Posted by wilnj (Post 12540359)

Remember the old Nokia brick style phones? The joke was that the rubber cases were to protect whatever the phone may fall on.