"No gimmicks, just pure functionality"

Reporters from Prosieben, a German television station,recently took us up on our offer to the media to try and destroy the World's Toughest Phone -- the XP1.

Snipped from the write-up of their review:

 

A few weeks ago we received a packet, a plastic bag filled with sand and nails\. Inside the packet was the supposedly indestructible Sonim XP1 mobile phone, which -- its manufacturer claims -- is the "World`s Toughest Phone.”

 

Of course we did not believe these claims without testing them. At first, we put the phone outside overnight. We believed that when we saw the display had moisture underneath its screen that we’d managed to easily destroy it. But no, after a little time passed the humidity disappeared and the phone was fully operational.

 

So we took the phone to the Masters Dirt Festival in Winterberg, Europe's largest mountain bike free ride festival. There, we asked mountain bikers to try to destroy the phone.

 

First, we tested it on asphalt. Several mountain bikers drove over it, and jumped on it with their bikes’ rear tires. The Sonim XP1 was unimpressed. Then one of the riders had an interesting idea. He drove over the phone and at the moment in which the rear tire rolled over the phone, he stopped abruptly and ground the phone onto the tarmac. The sound this procedure made was not good, and it also left clear traces  of damage on the phone. In fairness we have to say that probably no display in this world would have survived this treatment. Nevertheless, a little worse for wear, the XP1 still worked properly.

 

So we tool the phone home and bathed it in hot water, which the XP1 seemed to enjoy. It is indeed a very tough phone, but it isn’t very attractive, with a look straight from the 90’s and a nasty ring tone reminiscent of the mobile Stone Age. The functions are Spartan and limited to the essentials --no gimmicks, just pure functionality.

 

We still have a few more tortures to inflict on the XP1, but one can safely assume that this mobile phone will easily survive any situations its likely to face in real life.