(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); The company JCB have come up with an idea for a Toughphone. As you may of guessed this phone is very tough, it is almost indestructible. It meets military standards too.

The JCB Toughphone is ideal for those who work in arctic conditions, under great heat, underwater and the most important building workers.

Here are some of the tests that are carried out to ensure this phone is tough and meets its requirments.

Rolling Drop Test:
we drop it 50cm 1,000 times over

Drop Test:[/U]
we drop it from 2m on all six surfaces and all four corners

LCD Impact Test:
we apply 0.5Nm of pressure to the screen

Compression Test:
170Nm applied 5,000 times to both front and rear case

Anti Bending Test:
front and rear case bent 5,000 times with a pressure applied of
250Nm

Twist Test:
product twisted 5,000 times with a pressure of 2Nm and then 20,000 times with 1Nm

Humidity Test:[/U]
phone is kept in a chamber for 48 hours at 70° C and at 90% relative humidity

Electro Static Discharge Test:
+/-4KV contact discharge and +/- 12KV Air Discharge

Vibration Test:
vibration of 3G during 2 hour / axis plus bumps of 25G during 40 minutes / axis

IP Dust Test:
phone kept in a chamber for 8 hours with a mix of 2kg dust per M3 of air

IP Water Test:
phone is immersed in 30cm of water for 8 hours

High Temperature Test:[/U]
the phone is run through functional tests at +75° C for 24 hours

Low Temperature Test:
the phone is run through functional tests at -30° C for 24 hours

Thermal Shock Test:
the phone is taken from -40° to + 70°C every 30 minutes for 24
hours

Salt Spraying Test:
5% NaCl solution sprayed on the phone at 1 litre per hour spraying continuously for 24 hours

Keyboard Test:
every key on the keyboard is pressed 300,000 times and on every 8,000 cycles all keys are subject to an 8Nm pressure test

Side Button Test:
each side button is pressed 100,000 times and on every 5,000 cycles and 8Nm meter pressure is applied

SIM Test:
a SIM is inserted and removed 3,000 times

Touch Screen Life Test:[/U]
a pen is dragged across the screen 100,000 times with 250gf +/- 10% at 60mm per second and a stroke length of 25mm

SD card Test:[/U]
SD card is inserted and removed 5,000 times

USB Test:[/U]
a USB cable is inserted and pulled out 5,000 times

Earphone Test:
an earphone cable is inserted and removed 5,000 times

The JCB Toughphone has also been dragged behind a car going at a speed of 120 MP/H.
NM is a metric unit of force.

I wrote all this myself except the list which I got off the JCB website.

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It probably doesn't stand up to phones with good features though :p

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I looked at their phones they don't look very good :p i'd rather have an iPhone :p