Beeb reporter breaks Sonim's 'unbreakable' phone with fishtank
All in a day's work
A BBC reporter covering this year’s CES broke Sonim’s…ahem…“unbreakable” mobile phone during a video demonstration of its toughness.
BBC Reporter Dan Simmons (left) tests and breaks a Sonim handset
After dunking the handset into a fishtank, Reporter Dan Simmons repeatedly smashed the device onto the tank’s corner.
On his fourth attempt to break the handset a horrible crunch can clearly be heard as the phone’s screen cracks, forcing Sonim CEO Bob Plaschke to admit: “You’ve actually broken the phone.”
Simmons didn’t say which Sonim model he was testing, although it was likely to have been the XP3.2 Quest Pro – Sonim’s most recent handset, which was unveiled at CES.
Register Hardware has reviewed Sonim handsets in the past, including the S1, but we may pass on the latest one! ®
COMMENTS
RPS
If I was the Sonim presenter, the fish tank wouldn't have remained unbroken for long.
'phone irradiates head
Fish tank breaks 'phone
Head smashes fish tank.
It's like a painful, expensive version of rock, paper, scissors
it did break, but....
he was hammering the hardest to protect, most delicate part of the phone bloody hard against a corner... the forces on the screen were pretty extreme! the fact that it took about 4 or 5 attempts to break is really very good going!!
you dont know how tough something is till it breaks... for me, seeing that it does take that sort of abuse is a good selling point! and if the screen is proper daylight readable, ill have one for days on the yacht
Amazing phone
It is amazing that if you see the video, still the phone works. And anyway Sonim phones are covered by a three year unconditional warranty, which other phones don’t have.
As piloti says, this is really a lot of stress for a phone. Other phones would not have held this long.
Excellent stuff
The best part of the video is the way the journalist is so abjectly apologetic (so much for hard-hitting journalism) while Plaschke remains completely calm and collected about the whole incident. Sheer class.
