The document summarizes the testing of the Sonim S1 mobile phone to assess its durability. In a series of tests, the phone withstood being kicked in a parking lot with minor scratches, being run over by a car with a cracked camera lens, deep scratches from keys and tools, submersion in water and hair gel for hours with no effects, freezing overnight and working after thawing, and having boiling water poured on it with no damage. The phone survived all extreme tests intended to destroy it, demonstrating its durability and status as virtually indestructible.

1. evening standard Friday 17 July 2009
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The phone even Naomi can’t break
£250 gadget can
survive shocks,
ice and the fury
of supermodels
Mark Prigg
Technology Correspondent
IT IS billed as the first “indestructible”
mobile phone on sale in Britain.
Impervious to dust, dirt and shocks,
it can be dropped from six feet on to
concrete. It will work a metre under-
water, in -20C conditions and cope
with short bursts of 100C heat.
The phone should survive angry out-
bursts from supermodel Naomi Camp-
bell, who has admitted in court
throwing hers at her assistant.
It could also be just the thing for Indestructible: the mobile has been dubbed the world’s most resilient, and will
Downing Street — one Labour MP stand up to users like Naomi Campbell, left, who threw a phone at her aide
claims Prime Minister Gordon Brown
broke three handsets in a week by
throwing them against the wall.
Covered in a tough rubber coating,
... and we really tried
our hardest as well
the phone has even been approved for
use by the military.
Today, Tesco said it has been inun-
dated with orders for the £250 phone,
which went on sale this week.
A new study found that on average,
MOBILE phones seem to break
down on me every six months. Daisy
one in three young people breaks a
handset during summer months, cost-
I’m not sure if it’s the fact that I
tend to accidentally drop them,
Dumas
ing users £157 million each year for leave them in steam-filled
replacements. bathrooms or take them to muddy
Tesco said it hoped the new handset, festivals, but they expire on me
which was designed by Land Rover and like clockwork. So the chance to impressive results. Keys, steel
comes with a three-year unconditional put an “indestructible” phone to prongs and safety pins made very
guarantee, could help save people the test was too good an little impression. Two very minor
money. opportunity to miss. lines were just about visible.
“Our research shows that summer Robust, reinforced and strong On to submersion exercises. We
holidays can be holidays from hell for (read chunky, rugged and walkie- dunked the phone into a
mobile phones,” said Lance Batchelor talkie-esque), the Land Rover particularly toxic hair gel for six
of Tesco Mobile. Sonim is not a dainty handset. But hours. Result: very slimy keys but no
“The new, virtually indestructible then its target audience isn’t other change. We left it out in the
Land Rover S1 phone by Sonim is the wearing ballet pumps. rain overnight. Result: no change.
first in the world to be as tough as a We started with a game of “kick Sir Ranulph Fiennes is supposedly
Land Rover and is the world’s only the phone” in a supermarket car a fan. But failing a trip to the slopes
military-rated mobile phone — making park. Cue drop kicks, collisions of Everest, I left the phone in the
it resistant to humidity, dust, shock, with trolleys and several freezer for eight hours. Result:
salt and heat. squashings by befuddled shoppers. switched itself off, but turned on
“Add to that water resistance, the Result: minimal scratching of with ease after warming up.
ability to survive drops on to concrete, rubberised shell. Doggedly determined to destroy,
extreme temperatures and resistance Moving on to the road test. We I poured boiling water over the
against drops into the nastiness of pub- reversed, accelerated and handset. Result: no change.
lic lavatories and you have the most emergency stopped over the Unbelievable. It is now sitting in the
resilient phone in the world.” handset. Result: cracked camera cooling water. Its shining screen,
Lindsay Weaver, from Land Rover, lens, minor scratching. complete with rugged backdrop,
said: “Like our vehicles, this phone is Our scratch test also produced stares up at me mockingly.
extremely capable and will work in the
toughest of environments.
“It is made from hardened plastic
which is injection-moulded to the
handset, and water, oil and petrol-
resistant. This is covered with a hard-
ened rubber allowing the phone to
withstand drops.
“A non-porous coating is applied to
stop anything penetrating the case. It
has hardened rubber keys and a
scratch-resistant screen.” Tough: the Sonim survived drop kicks, being run over and boiling water
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in 2012. The decision was prompted
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ciple to services for same-sex partner- that allow gay marriages, domestic
ships, a move described as a severe partnerships and civil unions. It was
blow to hopes of worldwide unity for passed hours after the Church voted to
the Anglican Church. allow the consecration of gay bish-
The bishops voted 104-30 at the Epis- ops.
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California, to “collect and develop bishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams,
theological resources and liturgies” for under intense scrutiny. Lambeth Palace
blessing same-gender relationships, to refused to comment on the vote.
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