Unbreakable mobile phone - broken
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beanzontoast
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Talk about setting yourself up for a fall...!
Is anything truly unbreakable? Nevertheless, I'd have expected it to take a bit more than that to damage a phone marketed as being tough!
Is anything truly unbreakable? Nevertheless, I'd have expected it to take a bit more than that to damage a phone marketed as being tough!
beanzontoast
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- South of The Peaks
Thinking about this some more, I know where this demo went wrong: presumably if he'd fallen off a 10 storey building and landed in 20 feet of water, the phone would have been ok?
Fnaar
Smutmaster General
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- Thumberland
Ha ha... most amusing! 
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
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- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
It was very funny, but I think you can see why the phone broke. Instead of just dropping it, the reporter repeatedly hammered it against the corner of that aquarium so all the force was being concentrated into just one small part of the screen.
Claiming it to be 'unbreakable' was asking for trouble. I'd have just called it 'waterproof' and 'extremely rugged' which it certainly is.
Claiming it to be 'unbreakable' was asking for trouble. I'd have just called it 'waterproof' and 'extremely rugged' which it certainly is.
Piemaster
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- UK City of Culture
Although I'm repeating my post on the 'tin opener thread' I feel the unbreakable claim has already been covered on this thread
Campfire
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- near Risley Moss, Warrington
Quite some time ago I was working for Ericsson at a local technical/sales office. I had no idea about mobile phones but they had a new one there that they demonstrated by throwing it against a wall. It was blue plastic and a rounded off rectangle shape. I never did manage to find one, as it was some time before I actually had a phone of my own.
I still do have my first mobile phone, an Ericsson T39 which for sentiments sake, will keep. It works very well but texting is really hard work despite predictive text. (and Bluetooth, posh hey?) I don't use it everyday, being a bit of a gadget girl & favour either a touch screen or a Palm.
I still do have my first mobile phone, an Ericsson T39 which for sentiments sake, will keep. It works very well but texting is really hard work despite predictive text. (and Bluetooth, posh hey?) I don't use it everyday, being a bit of a gadget girl & favour either a touch screen or a Palm.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
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- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Just don't use the screen area to hit the nail!rh100 said:
thomas
the tank engine
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- Woking/Norwich
ColinJ said:Just don't use the screen area to hit the nail!
I think normally hitting the screen how he did wouldn't of done that. An unfortunate fluke. With any mass produced product, there is bound to be one which let's it down.
