Snipped from a review in The Warsaw Business Journal:
Take Sonim Technologies' Xtreme Performance I (XP1), for example. If
this apparently sturdy little gadget were a person, it would probably
be a cross between John Wayne and Johnny Knoxville - an emotionally
distant, chaps-wearing adrenaline junkie. Of course it's not - it's
just a phone - but it still seems like the kind of phone that would
wear chaps.
Sonim hosts a number of inspirational videos on its XP1 website,
www.toughestphone.com, which demonstrate ways to test the phone's
alleged mightiness. In these videos the XP1 survives being run over
with cars, showering and sauna'ing with a dodgy-looking guy, as well as
being put in a freezer and submerged in milk and beer (not at the same
time, though). It can also be used as an impromptu soccer ball or
junior-league hockey puck, struck with a baseball bat or a golf club,
used to hammer a nail though a board or put through a cement mixer - it
endures all of these things with the good cheer of a well-medicated New
York socialite.
The XP1 is not totally indestructible, however. As some gumptious Scandinavians went to
great lengths to prove, shooting the XP1 with an airgun, a Rugar 10/22
semi-automatic rifle, a 9mm Glock 17 and, finally, a Remington 700
rifle, is guaranteed to end in telecom tragedy.
In more techy terms, the XP1 is an IP-54 certified GSM phone with
Bluetooth. Its battery allows for five-hours of talking time in
temperatures ranging from -20C to +60C. Feel free to test that for
yourself, by the way, and if you survive please send some pictures our
way.
And from IntoMobile:
Just a quick post on a handset that isn't especially
new (i.e. it's been visible on the interweb for a little while), but
has suddenly popped on to the radar of a number of UK phone-vending
websites!
This beast amongst phones is the JCB Toughphone, which
is actually the Sonim XP1 ruggedised phone under another guise. The
'kewl' part is that JCB is part of many peoples' memories from when
they were smaller - if you lived near any building sites like I did,
you will be VERY familiar with the logo, and banana-yellow colouring!
On a marginally more serious note, the specs of the
handset are impressive ... operating
from -20°C to 60°C, and obviously being able to withstand serious
'drop/throw/kick/stamp/bang' abuse