Tuesday, April 19, 2011

This is why u must useNokia phones

Nokia places a phone under

a bunch of needle-sized

water dispensers and then

lets it drip all over the

phone, which tests for




resistance in situations like rain, or splashing from a

pool.





The humidity simulation,

which tests the durability

of phones in up to 95%

humidity, is helpful in determining if a phone will

hold up in particularly damp

areas like South and

Central America, where

gadgets don't have the

longest lifespan.



Nokia also tests how the

phone reacts to various

liquids, creams and gels

(lotions, hand sanitisers,

etc...), since stuff like that

tends to accidentally spill while sitting in a purse or

backpack with the phone.





Tests for bending and

twisting are pretty

straight forward and self

explanatory. Still, you can't help but cringe to see a

phone placed in such an

unnatural position.



Nokia

says when you have your

phone in your back pocket

and you sit on it, it's susceptible to bending.

One of the cooler stress

tests that exists is the

Drop test— not only because it uses a giant friggin'

machine, but also because

they record the drops

using a camera that can

record 100,000 frames per

second, which is 3,000 times faster than the

normal video camera.



The

videos are then analysed

frame by frame,

determining the degree to

which a device becomes distorted upon impact.

Check it out.





When Nokia drops a phone,

they drop it from about

the height of a shirt

pocket onto concrete, since that's a likely scenario for

dropped phones. They also

attatch a phone under a

steel device that pushes

down 100 newtons of force.





Nokia has a series of wear and tear stress tests,

when gauge the phone's

ability to take bumps,

scratches from daily use.

Dust testing involves

throwing a handful of phones in a dust filled box

and letting everything co-

mingle. How much dust gets

inside? And do buttons stop

working when foreign

substances get under the surface? This is where you

find out.

They also let phones roll

around in a bunch of pieces

of hard, pointy plastic to

see where it might scratch, scuff or crack under

duress. These pieces are

like plastic chocolate chips

and bite-sized pyramids,

and they're pretty sharp.

This phone met an unfortunate demise in the

name of quality control.

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