Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/11/bbc_breaks_sonim/
Beeb reporter breaks Sonim's 'unbreakable' phone with fishtank
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Posted in Phones, 11th January 2010 15:59 GMT
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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 [1] 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 [2], but we may pass on the latest one! ®