Nokia's N91 drop tested 300+ times
By Ryan Block 
posted Nov 14th 2005 12:20PM
posted Nov 14th 2005 12:20PM
We have no way of confirming the validity of this or anything, but apparently this dude Younghee was chatting it up
with a very proud Nokia mechanical test engineer, who told him that the
N91 survived a three hundred cycle drop test —
the same kind that killed an iPod mini after
only 12 drops. Well, we suppose that solves possible-problem number one with a hard drive-enabled cellphone; now, onto
battery life, price, and in the case of the N91, aesthetics.
[Via del.icio.us]
That's good news. I fearer the hard drive would make the N91 fragile, but it appearts not. Now I just have to wait for one...
I drop my Nokia 6820 like more than 200 times so far. No damage at all, but I only can said that there is one or two less signal bar than my dad's Nokia 6230 in same wireless carrier - Cingular. He never drop that much, he is so careful.
That is good to hear, the one thing i dred is the price on one of those things. I would love to own one but i cant justify spending over 400-500 dollars on a cell phone.
as a quality engineer i am curious of what the specs of the test are. (how high, onto what surface, random orientation or set face/edge/corner order) also, what was the failure criteria? did it just need to power on? or was it fully functioning at the end? it definitely dope if it was a decent test. but it could be comparable to saying that your car can pull a full stop in less than 2 feet (from 5 mph).
Now if Nokia would only ship the damn device!
That means that I can let it fall 300 times before it stops working? I don't think I could do that to my smartphone that doesn't have a HDD :p
i have always believed in Nokia, had my old 8210 dropped millions of times and the same for 7600... no damage done wotsoever! that s the high quality you pay for :D
Good point #4.
Add this to the list:
-Dropping it while the hard drive is spinning.
nokias tend to be rock-solid, period. i have dropped my 3650 many, many times and the faceplate flies off but it is always perfectly intact.
i plan to get an n91 as soon as it comes out, but it's hard to believe the 3650 is 3 years old--it's a great piece of technology.
>Dropping it while the hard drive is spinning.
No problem. From 1 meters the N91's accelerometer parks the hard drive heads before impact.
does anyone know when this is coming out?
#11: from what i have read, it claims to be early 2006... very unforunately missed the xmas hype. all bcos of the DRM from MS...
by the way, found a good review abt the phone with videos (quite a large one, 7mb), the real thing just looks great :D http://forums.mobileburn.com/showthread.php?t=11681
Hi guys, I'm from New Zealand and thought I'd share a story. This guy was done with his Nokia 3315 and thought it would be funny to throw it off the Sky Tower (tallest building in the Southern Hempisphere). So he chucks it off the edge it falls down to the streets below and hits a taxi causing a big dent. The phone was wasted but the Police came along, put it back together and without much trouble got it working! Next thing they did is look for the guys home number recorded on his home and gave the guy a lovely call!
Nokia make durable phones!
I hope its powered by Infineon ICs..
Just like those on in the F1 Ferraris and Xbox 360s.
So wat if the phone looks..well I won't even go there...can't wait to get my hands on it...I just hope its not too pricy...whats the suggested price? $400?
I accidently dropped my nokia 6230i at the speed of around 40 kmph from a bike and nothing much happened to the phone except for a few scratches and a cracked cover which i got replaced for a few dollars and the phone has been working fine till date.
Sorry, but to all those who say Nokia makes solid unbreakable phones, I say bollocks. It's not like their cases are any better either, they crack like crazy when it comes to the low grade plastic covers they use for the 6230 and the similar models with and without camera [7250 etc.]
At least any other phone tends to hold together and still work when you drop it. A nokia just falls apart so that you're collecting the case from there, the sim from here, the battery from that guy down the street....
Tait, you're definately in the minority with your bad luck. There was a video posted on Hofo with someone taking a... forget which model Nokia and slap shotting it into a hockey net and putting it back together, it working perfectly fine, even the case was fine, just scratches.
I've dropped mine several times getting into my car/out of my car and various other times, only very minor scratches.
that's the thing with nokia, the cases absorbs the fall, hence the cases often fly off, but the impact is not directly onto the phone... i'd rather buy a cheap housing for my phone after a drop, rather than have a "solid" phone that's crushed after it hits something solid..
that's the thing with nokia, the cases absorbs the fall, hence the cases often fly off, but the impact is not directly onto the phone... i'd rather buy a cheap housing for my phone after a drop, rather than have a "solid" phone that's crushed after it hits something solid..
younghee is a girl, btw...
One time I was hanging out with my buddies on the moon with my Nokia 7710. My buddy Tom found the old golf club that Neal Armstrong left there back in the previous century. He thought it would be hilarious to use that club to drive my Nokia out into space. It ended up flying in a direct path into the sun and I was sure it was lost forever. Fast forward 250,000 years: I am having a martini on my front deck one Tuesday morning when something falls from the sky. Can you believe it, it was my old 7710!
The case was missing and the circuitry had been melted into a plasma, but it still worked perfectly and it even showed 12 missed calls from my ex-girlfriend. Nokia phones sure are durable.
#20 wins. All other submissions will be ignored!!
LOL
>Nokia phones sure are durable.
AGREED!