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    By Zee on 11 Jan '10   16 Comments

    BBC Reporter breaks ‘unbreakable’ mobile phone at CES

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    Discussion

    • Tony Jansen

      Cudos to the CEO for not panicking and taking it with humor :)

    • http://www.northtoowoombait.com.au Stuart Shields

      Haha! Atleast the CEO was nice about it, but honestly who in there right mind is going to “attempt” to break the screen on a mobile phone?

    • Liz

      I guess they didn’t whack the phone on something hard while they were working on the prototype. Seems like something that should’ve occurred to them.

    • http://www.lancefestivalen.se Janne

      I still want one…

    • rezon

      they didnt think someone would whack the screen

      • Harri

        That video is quality!! Although you hear loads of claims about rugged mobile phones, this guy shot his with a shotgun?! http://www.isitrugged.co.uk

    • http://tomharvey.tumblr.com/ @tom_1986

      That’s brilliant. The CEO should have just handed him his free (and broken) phone right there.

      • http://technecatscratchings.wordpress.com kvweber

        I was rather wondering why he didn’t…

    • http://www.redbullet.co.uk Andy Shield

      One USP – it had one USP…

    • G-man

      FAIL

    • http://twitter.com/patrick Patrick de Laive

      Last year in Barcelona I went to their booth, but I was interested in a different thing than their ‘unbreakable’ phone…

      imate

      • http://zee.me Zee

        LOL. :)

    • http://www.snipblog.com Simon

      I saw the same demo on TWiT.TV and they hammered the crap out of it, and it didn’t break – funny to see though

    • http://thenextweb.com/asia/ Regina

      That was awesome. He broke the unbreakable phone. I guess that means he gets a new one!

    • http://twitter.com/aadler1204 Aimee A.

      During PEPCOM at the Mobile World Congress, eight tech reporters put Sonim's newest phone, the Spirit XP2, through a torture test. We worked with them to produce videos of the tests. Here's a link http://www.sonimtech.com/video.

    • paulinabrusca

      During PEPCOM at the Mobile World Congress, eight tech reporters put Sonim's newest phone, the Spirit XP2, through a torture test. We worked with them to produce video's of the tests. Here's a link: http://www.sonimtech.com/video

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