Nokia Launches "Most Rugged Handset to Date"
Nokia has just announced the 3720 classic and the Finnish cell phone manufacturer is calling this phone its most rugged handset to date.
Entirely sealed to protect its guts from harmful materials like dust, sand and water, Nokia is touting this phone as the perfect phone for beach goers, construction workers and clumsy people who tend to drop their phone quite a bit.
Aside from being IP54-certified (which means yes, dust might find its way in there; but even if it does, it won’t be enough to turn your phone into Nokia’s most rugged paperweight to date), the 3720 packs a 2.2-inch display, a 2 megapixel camera, an LED flashlight, an FM radio, triband EDGE, microSD expansion (1 GB included) and Bluetooth. Availability is expected before the end of the summer at €125 (roughly $175).
I have to say, with all the smartphone releases lately, it’s nice to see a phone that I wouldn’t be afraid to drop. What’s the most durable phone you’ve ever owned? Let us know in the comments below!
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There is no 'more rugged' phone than the Nokia 1100.
I have an old 8800 from 2005.. it's stainless steel + sapphire glass construciton make it a nice melee weapon.
Lets Put This Baby to the test with My Dads Legacy of Extreme CellphoneMania, He Has gone from Dropping Phones at 100MPH to Dropping them from 8 story buildings and the classic "i knew i lefted here near the pool" (1 Month ago) haha, his only Motorola (star Tac) survived everything and made almost every Nokia in his hands Perish
The most rugged phones I've ever owned were ALL NOKIA's, any will do... Samsung is alright too, but not near NOKIA.
The most s**t phones I've ever owned were 1) Motorola, 2) Kyocera, 3) LG, and 4) Sony/Ericsson.
I've had many Nokia handsets, and despite not being particularly clumsy, I dropped most of them many times, and they continued working. One of them had a funky '4' key which was "fixed" after a drop. =)
Hey Daller, do you stick it up your arse?
Nokia 6102b. it survived a deployment to iraq. nuff said
I definitely dig the new iPhone, but also miss Nokia's sturdiness. Those old 'candy bar' models were indestructible. Will we ever see a fortified smart phone?
My trusty Nokia 5160 survived water and several drops.
Casio Gzone... dropped in the tub. Dropped on the ground... chewed on by my son, had it almost 2 years no issues.
My First phone was an Audiovox 3000. It was tough as steel. I dropped that down 4 decks on a warship and the thing never missed a beat. Even the Battery stayed on.
Nokia 3210, and before that the 5110 (I think), now those were indestructible phones
o yeah, and the battery lasted about 10 days
My first phone was a solid nokia with a monochrome screen. It was rugged.
Most durable I've had is my current phone, also a Nokia candybar style model: the 6010!
Thing has been with me for about four years now and still going strong on the replacement battery. If it starts to look like crap I just snap the casing off, run some air over the electronics and wipe the screen out with isopropyl. Snap it all back together and it looks like new (if you ignore the huge gouge in the screen from a previous encounter with the planet Earth).
Does it stream TV over the cell-ternet? No, but it does make phone calls.
And surprisingly, I have never broken a cellphone. It's always the people I lend them to who do it.
Nokia 6021 would have won the USA a couple of wars in the past. It is very, very hard to make it malfunction.
I also had an 8800 which I used frequently as a hammer. It never broke, I eventually lost it, unfortunately.
The best phone I ever had:NOKIA 6230 The warrior
There is no 'more rugged' phone than the Nokia 1100.
Except for that old nokia with the black 'n white screen. I dropped it onto concrete from 2 stories up, no problems. Washed it in a washing machine... it rewired the buttons to different things for about 5 hours, but after that, no problems.
Phones today can't even take a drop from 3 feet. :_(
On the other hand, anything in a Otterbox Defender case is practically bulletproof.
nokia 3210 omg i played tennis with one of this and it still didn't break, a few scratches here and there but nothing else, grr it took forever to destroy that one so that i could ask my parents at the time for a new one...
Nokia 1100, by far. I used one for four years, and then I gave it to my dad. The damn thing still works, and it has more hits than a golf ball...
Considering I'm still using my oooooooold Nokia nGage QD, I'd have to say its the most rugged phone I've ever had.
Plus it still runs NES emulators perfectly, why buy a new phone that doesnt even have the features of my old one?
A Nextel phone I used while working for a company. It fell out of my pocket and spent 2 days in the Oregon winter rain. I found it on the lawn a few days later and it worked good as new. Great phone!
Well thats pretty neat. Just hope its not the dissapointment the N97 is.
This would be great for my dad, though he currently uses the Samsung Rugby (I forgot the AT&T branded name). Which works pretty good... but he's actually already broke it partially, since a water pipe blew into his chest and cracked the tiny outside screen. Then it has a few burns since he keeps it in his pocket when he welds.
They should really consult my dad for damage-proof phones >,>
Making a phone IP54 doesn't make it rugged, just water and dust resistant.
Most Rugged in my book goes to the Helio/Samsung Heat. At the time, it was technically superior to the Chocolate and it could take a beating. Thrown full speed into a brick wall multiple times by a friend with temper problems [his phone, not mine], it never once stopped sliding properly or developed any cracks.
Casio GzOne Type-V. Purpose built to be abused.
It's just one of the (more or less) rugged phones, but probably not the most rugged, eg. the Sonim phones (like XP3), Samsung B2100 (with IP57 instead of Nokia's IP54) or M110 (more sratch resistant display), Casio G-Shock or maybe the Motorola Tundra. Some local crash test videos, including a car drive-over-it test:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWQIKAslZkY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jj_U9jGPPU0
i used to have a nokia 1100. i droped it down the stairs, into water, played football with it and broke walnuts with it!!! don't believe it?
See it yourselves:
http://rapidshare.com/files/254478120/1100.3gp.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/254480281/1100.3gp.html
My LG's have been very robust, all flip's. All the moto's I've had were crap except my badass 7868. My bro has the gzone and makes a point of throwing it in fish tanks, pools, on the ground, chucking it down a road, making calls underwater, etc. and it has never gotten more than a few scratchs.
Every one of my non-smartphone phones has been submerged more than once, they all lived to work again, just gotta dry them out good. Never dropped one of my smartphones, but I'm extra careful with them.
Have you guys not seen this video of the iPhone...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qbWjaW25mQ