Meh, my old school Nokia 3xxx took a tumble down two flights of concrete stairs and landed in a puddle in the rain. Not only was there not a scratch on it, but the person I was speaking to on the other end was still there and wondering what the hell had caused all that noise.
One of my friends plucked a Nokia 6255 out of the snow (as in, it wasn't his and had been dropped by someone else, it was literally covered except for a bit of blue sticking out), and had it activated on his account. The thing looked terrible, but I gotta admit that was a nice phone.
Another friend had his Nokia (One of those old gray bricks with the wing shaped buttons, you know the ones) tied to the bumper of his car by a string attached to its antenna. It was dragged there for about 4 miles, and recovered in full working orders (albeit scratched).
My old Nokia slid off the pizza box I was carrying, bounced on the concrete stairs, and in slow motion went over the edge to the concrete 10 feet below. Parts went everywhere. Fortunately, the parts were just the battery, battery cover, and sim card. The phone itself got a crack in the plastic over the screen and a scratched corner and worked like a champ once I put the battery back in. I was really impressed.
My dads is a mason. His Nextel Motorola i305 was dropped 3 stories, run over by a 1 ton truck, lost in a wheel barrel of cement, and dropped in a bucket of dirty water. It was a monster. The contacts on the charging port eventually wore out, and it was retired. A few friends have had Nokia phones. All of them loved them. One of my friends mom lost hers in the snow during winter and when she recovered it in the spring it still worked. You guys have some amazing stories.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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Meh, my old school Nokia 3xxx took a tumble down two flights of concrete stairs and landed in a puddle in the rain. Not only was there not a scratch on it, but the person I was speaking to on the other end was still there and wondering what the hell had caused all that noise.
THAT was an ultra durable phone.
One of my friends plucked a Nokia 6255 out of the snow (as in, it wasn't his and had been dropped by someone else, it was literally covered except for a bit of blue sticking out), and had it activated on his account. The thing looked terrible, but I gotta admit that was a nice phone.
Another friend had his Nokia (One of those old gray bricks with the wing shaped buttons, you know the ones) tied to the bumper of his car by a string attached to its antenna. It was dragged there for about 4 miles, and recovered in full working orders (albeit scratched).
My old Nokia slid off the pizza box I was carrying, bounced on the concrete stairs, and in slow motion went over the edge to the concrete 10 feet below. Parts went everywhere. Fortunately, the parts were just the battery, battery cover, and sim card. The phone itself got a crack in the plastic over the screen and a scratched corner and worked like a champ once I put the battery back in. I was really impressed.
It's a well known fact that 3310s cannot be killed by conventional weapons.
My dads is a mason. His Nextel Motorola i305 was dropped 3 stories, run over by a 1 ton truck, lost in a wheel barrel of cement, and dropped in a bucket of dirty water. It was a monster. The contacts on the charging port eventually wore out, and it was retired. A few friends have had Nokia phones. All of them loved them. One of my friends mom lost hers in the snow during winter and when she recovered it in the spring it still worked. You guys have some amazing stories.