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Nokia Lumia 900 gets hammer and nails stress tested

Chris Burns, May 18th 2012 Discuss [0]

This week a couple of engineers from Tech Craver busted out a hammer, some nails, and their own Nokia Lumia 900 review unit to do some stress tests. While what you're about to see isn't technically as scientifically viable as we'd normally like to see in a hammer-to-smartphone test, we'll accept it - if only because they added what appears to be Stephen Elop calling them on the phone at the end of the video before the video stoppers up. This story has also been picked up by Nokia official Jason Harris of Conversations by Nokia - they're fairly impressed by the whole situation too, to be frank. Read The Full Story

Sonim includes NFC support in one of three new rugged phones

Rue Liu, Oct 10th 2011 Discuss [1]

Sonim has announced three new ultra-rugged mobile phones, including one that offers NFC support. The company claims to hold the Guinness World Record for the World's Toughest Phone and unveiled earlier this year its XP3300 Force that's hailed as the rugged mobile phone with the world's longest talk time. Read The Full Story

Sonim XP3300 Force has longest talk time in the world

Shane McGlaun, Feb 15th 2011 Discuss [4]

Sonim has unveiled a new rugged mobile phone at MWC 2011 that it claims to have the world's longest talk time called the XP3300 Force. The phone has a rugged design and works on GSM networks. It is aimed at people that work in harsh environments for long shifts and need a phone that will work the entire shift and will survive harsh conditions. Read The Full Story

The Daily Slash: October 12th 2010

Evan Selleck, Oct 12th 2010 Discuss [0]

As we march on through October, we're having to keep up with companies all over the globe announcing something new. Today we saw the release of Sony products with Google TV, and we even got some on-time analysis of the upcoming products. In our story from around the Web, we'll take a look at how Intel is doing, as they've just announced their third quarter results. And then to end the night, we'll take a look at what's been going on around the R3 Media Network. Welcome to the Tuesday edition of The Daily Slash. Read The Full Story

Sonim offers new XP1300 Core rugged mobile phone

Shane McGlaun, Oct 7th 2010 Discuss [2]

I have talked about some of Sonim's rugged mobile phone offerings in the past like the XP3 Sentinel. Sonim has unveiled a new rugged phone called the XP1300 core. The new phone is claimed to be a breakthrough in waterproofing tech as the world's first IP-68 rated GSM handset. Read The Full Story

Sonim XP3 Sentinel phone keeps lone workers safe

Shane McGlaun, Jun 17th 2010 Discuss [1]

Some people work all by themselves in situations where they are far from help and could be seriously injured. These folks need equipment that can stand up to harsh conditions to keep safe. Sonim has announced a new mobile phone that is designed specifically for workers alone in harsh conditions where injury is a daily risk. Read The Full Story

SlashGear Week in Review – Week 7 2010

Shane McGlaun, Feb 21st 2010 Discuss [0]

MWC was in full swing this week in Spain and SlashGear was at the show in force. There were a staggering number of new mobile phones and other gear that was spied at the show for the first time. Early in the week we got some preview action with the Samsung Wave S8500 (SlashGear hands-on at MWC 2010) The Wave is the first Samsung smartphone to run the Bada OS. Read The Full Story

Sonim torture tests “nearly” unbreakable XP2 Spirit phone at MWC

Shane McGlaun, Feb 17th 2010 Discuss [1]

Nothing is more embarrassing for a manufacturer than to have its product tested and the features touted found to be false. This is exactly what happened to Sonim at CES when it dared a BBC journalist to try to break its indestructible XP3 handset, and break it he did. With that fresh in mind, Sonim is showing off its first 3G handset at MWC called the Sonim XP2 Spirit and is this time calling the thing "nearly" unbreakable. Read The Full Story

Smashed Sonim “indestructible” XP3 shows danger of PR pride

Chris Davies, Jan 11th 2010 Discuss [1]

Sonim have managed to carve a niche for themselves in the cellphone handset industry by offering supposedly "indestructible" devices to the sort of users who care more about ruggedness than they do multitouch. Unfortunately sometimes their marketing comes back to haunt them, such as when the BBC's Dan Simmons was challenged to break the latest Sonim handset, the XP3. Read The Full Story

Sonim Technologies Teams up Land Rover, unveils rugged Mobile Phones

Daniel Lim, Dec 3rd 2008 Discuss [0]

Mobile phone makers are known to partner up with devoted designers for fashionista. Sonim technologies looks to change the trend, focuses in alternate lifestyle audiences by bringing in all-terrain automaker Land Rover, co-branding rugged and eco-friendly mobile phones for outdoor adventurers. Read The Full Story

Sonim XP3 cellphone takes rugged to another level

Chris Davies, Nov 24th 2008 Discuss [0]

Sonim have announced the follow-up to their XP1 rugged cellphone, which comes in the shape of the chunky XP3. Despite Sonim's enthusiastic claims to the XP1's invulnerability, the XP3 is apparently even more shock and drop resistant; it's also waterproof, and can survive being fully submersed for 30 minutes within one meter of water. Read The Full Story

Sonim XP1 ruggedized cellphone gets hammered online

Chris Davies, Oct 24th 2008 Discuss [0]

If you're the sort of person who gets a thrill from things such as the Samsung SSD drop test video (and we're not judging you, as we do too) then you might enjoy watching the regular battering that Sonim's XP1 ruggedized cellphone is currently receiving. The handset - also known as the JCB Toughphone - has been made the star of its own online reality TV show but, unlike in most other such shows, the audience really is getting to see what they want: the star being battered with a great big hammer. Sonim XP1 test videos - starring an elephant, no less - after the cut Read The Full Story