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Drop tests? Pah, who simply drops their phone these days? I mean, the number of times I’ve run over my phone with my car, but no one tests for that, right? Having survived loads of other tests, some guy intent on destroying his Lumia 920, took it to ‘the next level’. Phone versus car; who will win?
Honestly, I’m surprised by the result. Who’d have thought the Lumia 920 was so damn hardy? I mean, it survives a car, a bat, getting tossed high in the air, in fact, it’s only when it’s hurled hard against a block of concrete that the screen finally gives in. If that was pretty much any Android phone, and definitely the iPhone, it would be toast simply from the drop, let alone the rest of the abuse.
Nokia’s hardware has always been legendary for sheer solid build quality, and it seems the new Lumia is no different. If you want a hardy phone you can drop like you could the Nokia 3310, it looks like the Lumia 920 is it. [YouTube via Ubergizmo]
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i was most impressed when the screen didnt break from the baseball bat.
The car i think an S3 would survive, but not an iphone.
I wondered if he would of hard reset the phone if it would have come back on after the bat but he didnt try, most probably a broken connector.
Have you seen the iPhone 5 vs S3 drop test?
Nokia is being pathetic.
Where the hell can I buy a red Nokia Lumia, on contract, with a good service provider? This is just silly, Steve Ballmer and Head Of Nokia (what’s his face) should fire themselves for being such disgraceful leaders.
If they did a pure Android I would get it. It is really a pity that they sold their soul to MS.
It’s a pity for anyone to sell their soul to anyone other than Google it seems.
Not really, it’s all about options. I am not against Microsoft just to have more options, even Nokia would be better off and grabbing more market share.
how so? I doubt moving to Android would gain them much more market share as people outside of tech cirlces know Samsung… not Android. Android means nothing to them its all about Samsung.
Would google hand 1b over to Nokia? No way… So i think better for them at MS and it looks like WP8 sales are going well.
I didn’t say move.
This deal between Microsoft and Nokia favoured the former much more than the latter. Brief history to explain:
Microsoft needed a hardware mobile company to compete against Apple and Google.
Nokia was “not doing well”, Microsoft’s head of business division Stephen Elop is appointed as the new Nokia CEO.
Shortly after joining Nokia an internal scare mongering memo written by himself was suspiciously leaked to the public predicting doomsday for the company.
Microsoft as the charitable company that they are offered to help Nokia out of the hole as long as they signed an exclusivity deal with them for the puny sum of 1 Billion, yes it is puny Google pays Firefox 300 million a year just to be the default search engine.
This whole story would probably have been much different if another CEO was in charge. A deal could and should have been struck with Google and Microsoft. They would both be interested in paying.
Nokia sold it’s soul for cheap.
All that being said Nokia and Microsoft are my second phone of choice and slowly they will pass Apple.
yep, Not been to profitable for them so far I imagine and if the rumours about Microsoft making their own phone are true, thats going to hit them too.