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.
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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