How did you kill the cell phone?

I'd dropped my phone a hundred times and nothing ever happened to it.  Then I had set my phone down on a step below my deck.  I accidentally knocked *the tiniest* pebble - smaller and lighter than a grain of rice - down the step.  It landed on the screen, and thereby destroyed my phone's screen.
 
Guy Ashley said:
Having had the annoyance & inconvenience of dropping/drowning/breaking several mobiles over the years I bought one of the Sonim toughphones. They are built to military spec, waterproof, dustproof, withstand 2m onto concrete etc etc.

Expensive initially but has survived a number of traumas!

This link is for the UK distributor but they are available in Europe and also the US. (Just as well not made by Festool then!! [big grin]

http://enduromobile.com/#
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I had a look at them but they are like 200 GBP or more  they looks really solid and it says they are DUST proof BUT they are big and ugly but I needed a phone which would last because I am breaking them all the time its ridiculous.

Was raining one day and I had placed my phone in my tool box forgot about it and came back tool box had 1 inch deep of water DAM!!!!

Another time I had my phone in my front chest pocket and was on the roof and it was raining like mad!! End of the day check the time my phone was turned of tried to turn it on but it wouldnt turn on I had a proper look at it and noticed it was proper wet and took the back off and it had water inside DAM!!!!!!

Was at Alton towers on the Log flume at the start you get pulled up to the top well all the water goes to the back of the log flume where your sitting this dirty brown water behind me and gues what my phone slipped out of my pocket and went into the dirty water I couldnt find it and had to wait till we got to the top and went down so the water would go to the front and my phone went sliding and I grapped it. DAM!!!!!!

Left my phone in the window sill proper raining was coming in onto the window board where my phone was DAM!!!!!

All my other phone broke with dust keys just stop working phone turns of when it wants things like that.

Any way so decided I need a more robust phone and the Sonim Enduro/Guest/Guest Pro  looked like the only option but I didnt like the size and looks and so I have gone for the  SamsungB2100 because it only cost me 90GBP so if it breaks I can buy another one and it still cost me less than one Sonim Enduro.
The Samsung only claims waterproof not durst proof unlike the Sonim claims its dust proof.

JMB
 
Consider this

Functionality against looks. Its not meant for posing in nightclubs

Cost. As per Festool "Price is temporary, quality is timeless"

The Sonims are built to a military spec, 3 year no quibble guarantee, dustproof, waterproof, gorilla glass, etc, etc. So if during the three year guarantee period it breaks send it back, get a new one. Seemple as the meerkat says!

Do the maths, 2 phones a year @ GBP90 = GBP 180 over 3 years = GBP 540. One Sonim Quest Pro = GBP 260  ::) ::) ::)

The choice as they say is yours, and you have made your choice.

We eagerly await your next interesting, amusing and informative post of the circumstances in which this Samsung is rendered useless!!  [tongue] [tongue]
 
Sonin/ JCB phone is the way to go. mine has been covered in just about everything you can find on site. Dropped from high places and abused above and beyond the call of duty, Flippin thing just won`t die. The software that runs it goes a bit goofy at times but best work phone i have ever had. [big grin]

John
 
If they made a touchscreen PDA phone that was waterproof, dustproof & unbreakable, I might be interested...
 
Peter,

The Otterbox is great but won't protect your iphone from water.  Even the company warns against it.  Check out the truly waterproof case for the iphone on Magellan's website called the ToughCase priced at $179.99.  It has built-in GPS as well.
 
I keep my iPhone in my shirt pocket. Couple of years ago I forgot to button that pocket and then leaned over a second story railing. The drop onto concrete was about 12 feet. The case was pretty well destroyed, but the phone just had some bruising in the corner.
 
Guy Ashley said:
Consider this

Functionality against looks. Its not meant for posing in nightclubs

Cost. As per Festool "Price is temporary, quality is timeless"

The Sonims are built to a military spec, 3 year no quibble guarantee, dustproof, waterproof, gorilla glass, etc, etc. So if during the three year guarantee period it breaks send it back, get a new one. Seemple as the meerkat says!

Do the maths, 2 phones a year @ GBP90 = GBP 180 over 3 years = GBP 540. One Sonim Quest Pro = GBP 260  ::) ::) ::)

The choice as they say is yours, and you have made your choice.

We eagerly await your next interesting, amusing and informative post of the circumstances in which this Samsung is rendered useless!!   [tongue] [tongue]
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I totally agree with you but at the time I was think 90GBP which is nothing really and he had one in stock and he had to order the Sonims I needed the phone soon as because I didnt have a phone lol no phone doesnt help with work lol.

I have already dropped the Samsung  [blink] tell you what it proper bounces lol I caught it as it bounced back up lol

JMB
 
woodguy7 said:
DAM !!!!! JMB, you go through a lot of phones  [big grin]
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The problem is the latest phone are rubbish for durability and I have always been a sucker for the latest phones.  NO MORE im sticking with simple plain phone which are waterproof. I only need it to send/receive txt and calls I get other gadget to fill in the gaps. 

Lucky me lol I gave my girlfriend my old sony T camera and bought my self the Panasonic DMC waterproof camera  well we went out drinking she took the Sony with her and left it on the table and you know people who are pissed spill drinks well their was a thin layer of drink on the table which some how was enough to kill the camera. So me being bit drunk and being a silly billy started showing people how it would never happen with my camera and put my Panasonic in my pint lol Then licked it clean lol.  I love waterproof gadgets brilliant going beach you don't have to worry about being pushed into the pool with your camera or anything.  I hide my Panasonic in the Sand when at the beach dig little hole and I can go out not worrying about any one stealing my camera or wallet unless they start digging round.

JMB
 
We had a new, demo John Deere LS180 skid-steer on-site, and I needed to clear the base of a foundation and backfill behind it.  Up goes the full bucket, but as I got close to the foundation with the front wheels, I forgot that curling the bucket up leaves a bit of a ramp, so the full bucket was overhead, and - well - you guessed it, I got a rain of dirt.  Fortunately, my new cell phone was in a holster from Ripoffs, so the holster took the dirt that would have otherwise gone thoughout the phone.  The Ripoffs have a substantial spring steel clip to hold them to the belt.  Can't tell you how many plastic clips I've broken and how many cell phones have been trashed because the plastic clips broke and the phone self-demolished on the hard concrete.  None since finding Ripoffs, though.  Recently bought a BlackBerry after my Palm Pilot died, and it was immediately encased in an OtterBox Commuter, then parked into a Ripoffs holster that fit.  

http://www.ripoffs.com/ if you're interested.  
 
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