Nokia 3720 classic takes a licking and keeps on talking
Over the past few days, the folks over at Nokia have been putting an unknown handset through a variety of torture tests on video, presumably to whet our appetites for an imminent announcement. The poor little guy has been dunked in a pint, smacked with a golf club, punted through the air, drowned in a pool and even dropped two stories off a ladder — each and every time followed by the phrase “it’s still working!” Suffice it to say, this new Nokia kit is ruggedized and it fairs extremely well in a variety of real world accident scenarios. As many had assumed, it looks like said handset is shaping up to be the IP54-certified 3720 classic we first heard about last month. Specs were reported this morning as follows:
- Water and dust resistant (IP54 certificate)
- Battery life: over 2.5 weeks standby time
- FM radio
- Integrated flashlight
- S40 OS
- 2.2-inch QVGA display, 16M colors
- 25MB internal memory
- MicroSD card slot
- Bluetooth
- 3.2 megapixel camera
Pretty decent for a handset that can take a serious beating. Nokia will certainly be announcing this scrapper soon but for the time being, it’s rumored to be hitting the streets some time in September at an unknown price. Hit the jump for a few of our favorite 3720 torture test videos.
I think the most impressive is the 2 story drop. The golf club thing’s a little weird. The beer pint thing is obviously useful for the pub and bar hoppers lol.
What I don’t understand is why Nokia’s making such a big deal about it, as if they’re the first do make a ruggedized phone.
They need to find someone who actually knows how to swing a golf club. Nokia emphasizes too much on hardware, they need to realize a phone is 50% hardware, 50% software. Maybe some people may need this phone (construction workers?) but other than that, it doesn’t prove anything…
Or they’re making a big deal about it because it’s their first rugged phone.
@jeremiah..they’re taking a page outta apples book, not the first to do it but will tout their product like they are!
Nice test, but it looked like the screen was busted after the Golf Club hit. I see the Ladder drop more realistic than the Golf Club hit. The Liquid dive could also happen.
@JohnBo
This isnt a smartphone….its a cellphone. Smartphones maybe 50% hardware and 50% software, but in real life, there are alot of people who would want a rugged phone. Lets get real, there are only a small amount of people in the world that are techies (like us who go on blogs like BGR).
@Mikeee
Can you name another phone out there that IP54 certificate? I think there should be a huge deal made about this phone…..the damn thing is water proof!!!! it could save peoples lives….imagine if your plane crashed in the ocean…..
@ThisGuy
if there is a plane crash and the landing is not like the one in the hudson then what are the odds your still concious lucid and have service
It looks like the first “ever” phone that could drop 2 stories and still be working. No other phone that’s tagged with a “military grade” label on it can survive that kind of abuse. The only thing is that it has to have hard rubber around it. Plastic won’t cut it. Unless its steel, which I’m sure that’s deffinately not the case here
Can you advise on what carrier might have this phone? My father-in-law is a concrete foreman and could use a phone like this! His phones usually last him six months.
@thisguy
The Sonim Tech Xp1 is IP54 and the XP3 is IP57 certified, the Motorola V76R is Milstd. 810.
If you look some more around you find some stuff from General Dynamics.
No-No-No-Nokia… I mean Tour, DOH!
Will it blend????
@mcd_boston: Of course not!
Oh….I don’t know. A friend of mine ruined a Motorola flip phone (Razr) by dropping it in the toilet. Thus, the beer drop seems fitting…and a bit more sanitary! (I let my friend know about this phone…..he might drown another one–who knows?!?!)
Next commercial: Guy drops the Nokia in a pint, drops the pint out of a 2 story window then someone at street level bats it out of the air with a golf club.
Im expecting royalties Nokia.
I wish the iPhone could withstand the beer test.
Actually it’s Nokia’s 4th rugged phone:
The first one was the 6250, then there was the 5210( I saw people use the damn thing to play soccer and throw it against walls…) , the 5140 and this one, the 3720. Nokia builds great phones, it’s a shame that they decided to stick with s60 in their smartphones…
check their timeline: http://www.newlaunches.com/entry_images/1107/12/nokia_timeline.php
It’s interesting that IP54 isn’t actually waterproof or dust proof: it’s dust protected and splashing water proof. Sounds nit-picky, but IP67 is actually dustproof and waterproof to 1m. IP68 is waterproof beyond 1m depth. Check wikipedia of you want references.
my old nokia 6620 took one hell of a beating to, and it was droped in a glass of beer and still worked, kicked across a parking lot throw out of my car window while driving, and it still ran strong i finally got rid of it a year ago because i upgraded to a blackberry curve, which has had its fair share of torture
Wow, I was working for Nokia 8 years ago and suggested a ruggedized water resistant phone. The response was “it wouldn’t sell”. I guess I was ahead of my time…
@greg, seems like you were not ahead, but the person you spoke to was out of touch… (6250 came out in 2001).
Not sure which model it was, but I saw a Nokia on Metropcs service dropped 20ft off an antenna tower, hit the roof of the building, break into 3 pieces and bounce off the roof to the floor another story down. When we put the pieces back together it still worked just fine!!!! Back when the Sony/Ericsson T300 first came out, it went for a swim in the washing machine! It drowned ;( That would be a good test for the phone!
Kollalo Videon….