Sonim XP3 unboxing
Well look what we have here - Sonim’s latest rugged wonder phone, the XP3. A feature-filled upgrade to the XP1, the XP3 sports the same rugged and durable design that made its predecessor famous. The XP3 is a GSM phone with a 128 x 160 anti-glare and shock resistant screen, Bluetooth, flashlight and a three-year no questions asked guarantee. Those features are just icing on the cake, here are the specs that really matter:
- IP57 certified waterproof and submersible for 30 minutes at up to 1 meter in water
- MIL-810F certification for salt, fog, humidity, transport shock and thermal shock
- Hardened rubber, non-porous exoskeleton
- Withstands shock-drops up to 2 meters on concrete
- Impervious to sand, dust, mud and industrial micro-particles
- Operational range between -20C and +60C
- Scratch resistant protective screen
- Keypad buttons tested to 500,000 pushes
Sonim told us to push the phone to its limits and that is definitely what we intend to do. Then we thought to ourselves, who better to come up with some hardcore “torture” tests for our XP3 than the fine readers of BGR? No, we won’t be driving to the Grand Canyon to toss the XP3 in or strapping C4 to it, but give us a shout in the comments and let us know what damage you think we should inflict upon this phone. We will pick a handful of suggestions, capture them on video and include them in our full review.
Tags: GSM, Rugged, Sonim, submersible, XP3
If you have a wedding coming up you could add it to the tin cans on the back of the car and take it for a ride.
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have a CAT 797 get close to it here in Alberta ‘ Oilsands country.
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“accidentally” leave it in your pocket for a trip through the washing machine.
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Its nice and cold in NYC right now, why not put it thru some real world scenarios? On a rainy day, drop it on the pavement and kick it down the street. Or skip it on a large puddle.
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1) Tie it to the back of a paperboy’s bicycle as he does his entire route.
2) Same thing, but with a pizza delivery guy for a day.
3) Re-enact the final scene from “300″ using an iPhone as God, toothpicks for spears and the XP3 can be King Leonidas. Make that iPhone bleed.
4) Put it in a tube sock and go running down the streets of your local city, swinging it around like a mad man, hitting every wall and pole. Just avoid people and their cars, that would create the scenario of you getting your ass beaten.
5) Do it up Ace Ventura style, find the biggest staircase you can and roll it down from the top. If it doesn’t make it the whole way, proceed to scream and fall to your knees in despair.
That’s all I got for ya BG, if you do any of those I’ll be proud.
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Do the “Samsung SSD drop test” on it
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Seriously, as a boating instructor, drop it in LI Sound dragging behind a power boat
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At the plumbing company I work for our tech will often have their cell phone drop out of the holsters and fall to the ground. This sometimes is followed by the phone being run over when they dont notice its missing. A quick 1meter drop to the ground and slowly running it over would simulate this pretty well.
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http://www.firepowertv.us/
Check them out for ideas. drop from airplane, track hoe 0 degree turn, baseball bat, have hot chicks in bikini’s hold it(I’m not sure what this test, but the video’s are really nice to watch).
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Drop it from 15+ stories up. I know you don’t want to drop it down the Grnd Canyaon but a 15+ story drop is a real possibility for a phone belonging to workers on swing stages doing construction, renovations, or even just cleaning windows
Also you can freeze it into a block of ice, put it in a block of jello, take it to the beach and drop it in the sand just to see how much gets in (if any), give it to a classroom of 2-5 year olds for a day or 2
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You have to do the toilet flush test…working phone dropped into flushing toilet…I can’t tell you how many pagers and cell phones I have had reported to me being trashed this way…
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In order to truly test this phone, I think you need to put it through an official “Drunk College Kid Test”! which includes…
1) Strapping it to your side and then barrel roll under a garage door before it goes all the way down.
2) “Accidentally” drop it into a pitcher of beer for at least 10 seconds.
3) “Accidentally” urinating on your phone because you thought it was a random cat in the alley.
4)Leaving it in the fridge for 24 hours next to your beer for beer pong.
5) Giving it the ol’ touchdown spike for when you just chugged a beer before your buddy.
You know…just a few everday tests…
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Put in 5 gallon bucket fill with wet cement, forget about it. 4 hour later remember where you put it and liberate it?
washing machine. then for completeness put it in the dryer.
Drop it while driving down the road with the window open.
Go to a farm, I’ve destroyed several of my phones on a farm, it’s pretty easy.
make it sit next to an apple fanboy and listen to why it’s just a iphone clone and how they need to come up with an original idea for a couple hours, It’ll probably self destruct on this one.
hockey.
curling.
shuffleboard, on a boat
give it to me for 30 minutes
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sand please test it in some sand i have never had a phone hold up in the desert even in my pocket they get full of grit
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Do what I want to be able to do with a phone. Mount it to the handlebars of a motorcycle so you can receive calls through a helmet intercom and use the GPS (without having to buy separate devices) and go ride all day in the winter in the Pacific Northwest while it is raining. Just for good measure drop it a few times and bang the gas nozzle into it when refueling.
No access to a motorcycle and cold blowing rain? Feel free to send the phone to me and I will let you know how it fares and take pictures of the whole ordeal.
In case you don’t feel like sending me a free phone any word on how much these will set us back? It looks like a good choice for those of us who find iPhones and G1s to be too fragile. As far as I am concerned I would much rather spend $300 on something I can drop or get wet than $300 for something that looks cool but shatters the first time I sit down without taking it out of my back pocket.
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Can it take a bullet like the RAZR. I’d start there.
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I want to see how it does in more than three feet of water. What happens if you drop it in a pool that’s 10 feet deep and fish it out a minute or two later (once you’ve emptied your pockets and taken your shoes off)?
I know it’ll survive a drop in the toilet, but a phone this expensive and supposedly durable would be pretty lame if that’s all it takes to kill it.
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1) Throw it in the microwave.
2) Drop it in a bucket of motor oil.
3) do a torque test. C-Clamp each end and twist in opposite directions.
4) Take it to the zoo and let some chimps trough it around.
5) Accidentally leave it in a taxi and see if you can find it again or get it returned. I’ll drive!
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Drop it in a pint of beer, then chug it.
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Leave it in your pants pocket, then chuck it in with the laundry.
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I think you need to do every thing in a specific order that would test the ability to with hold. first is case craks even if minor to the phone to see if dust or water can get to it then to test it after hot then cols weather. then re do the test again to see if the phone with hold to the same sequence of events…for example start with dropping it from a high place then a nice kick as soon as it hit the ground. kicking the phone should be aimed at a fairly deep body of water. after that repeat the drop and the kick but instead of water aim it to place full of fine sand. after the first two tests, expose the phone to a very high heat followed by a very cold temp….
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#1. Put it in a side pocket in a checked bag on a cross country flight.
#2. Leave it on a dashboard for a day or two
#3. Do your own version of ‘will it blend?’
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Coat it in BBQ sauce. Then give it to Oprah.
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Way back when when I worked at Nextel (before Sprint took over) and the i530 first came out my demo was taking it out side and throwing it at a brick wall on the side of the AVCO theater in westwood as hard as I possibly could. We had an idea one day but no one could locate one of those automatic ball pitchers…. ya stick that sucker in there against a cement wall see what happens… Thats a good idea…
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give one to the crew of a volvo 70 in the volvo ocean race, let them put in their pocket, 9 mths should be a good test.
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