sorry for your loss.. hope nothing like this happen to your next device.. :smile:
want a damage competition? come and see my 8S :winktongue:
http://forums.windowscentral.com/htc-8s/225046-there-anything-i-can-do-dead-8s.html
btw, from my experience,I can't really depend on gorilla glass for protection whatsoever..
when you drop it and "an object" hits the phone in the exact wrong place, you'll probably ended up with a cracked screen
broken screen sometimes caused with an (imaginative) formula of
(height+angle of drop+drop velocity) : luck = phone condition after the drop
my friend got an 8X, cracked it's screen with just waist-height drop... fell from his shirt pocket while he's doing his shoe laces
his luck just didn't save his phone