Nokia: destroying phones for fun and profit

posted Oct 8th 2009 7:00am by Caleb Kraft
filed under: cellphones hacks

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No matter how grumpy you are in the morning, this video should make you smile. This is one of the jobs many of us dream of. Take a tour around Nokia’s product testing facility with Engadget. Watch in the video as phones are squashed, pinched, smacked, baked, shaken, dialed, slid, opened, and closed repeatedly. Sure, we don’t get to see any of them obliterated, but it sure is fun to see those machines at work. Each one of these tests will be run until the phones eventually come apart or cease to function. Too bad they didn’t show us that part of it.

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12 Responses to Nokia: destroying phones for fun and profit

Spork says:

October 8, 2009 at 7:11 am

Awesome. This post did make me smile this morning.

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monkeyslayer56 says:

October 8, 2009 at 7:50 am

:)
idk if its a hack buts its definitely one of those fun informative articles that i like
o wait nvm the phones were being “hacked” on

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GSV Ethics Gradient says:

October 8, 2009 at 9:01 am

I looked round Nokia’s their test facility in Farnborough once. Looks like mostly the same kit, but they did have a cool device on a massive vertical rail that which held a phone with a pneumatic sucker, then accelerated very fast downwards and release it letting it smash into a concrete slab.

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mars says:

October 8, 2009 at 10:28 am

The music.. It ruins it.

Also, not even close to being ‘hack’ related.

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sly says:

October 8, 2009 at 10:34 am

the goggles… they do nothing

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spacecoyote says:

October 8, 2009 at 11:28 am

I always wondered why Nokia phones were so damn durable…now I know.

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elal1862 says:

October 8, 2009 at 12:07 pm

But still no good test for faulty Flash memory and warranty repairs taking up to three weeks… groan…

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aztraph says:

October 8, 2009 at 2:39 pm

I have a boulder cell phone, the GZone from casio, supposedly made to military specs, but not to mine. had it for about a 9 months and the case has cracked the keys don’t work all the time and one short drop and the Micro sd card unseats itself, maybe they should take a lesson from nokia. My N800 has been dropped and squashed untold times and still runs great. kudos nokia

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deaf mute says:

October 8, 2009 at 5:34 pm

If I wanted to read Engadget, I’d read Engadget.

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jproach says:

October 8, 2009 at 11:08 pm

I agree with mars, music totally ruined it.

Lots of cool one off stuff though.

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نوكيا says:

November 5, 2009 at 7:19 pm