Introduction
Who knows this company? Sonim. Not many in the mobile industry, as XP1 (Xtreme Performance One) is their first phone, earlier they had Push-To-Talk servers as their business. Starting up in the mobile phone marker they made a phone that is unique in its category. That’s because it resists anything.
Some nice forum users have attracted our attention upon the phone, and since I remembered seeing someone with such a handset recently, I turned to him and we took this interesting follow on a test ride. As I had to give back the phone, I had no chance on trying to kill it, as we did with Samsung M110 (although my colleague Bocha likes such things very much), but still the phone has fell once on hard stone and survived a heavy rain in my pocket. Of course most phones would be capable of such things, but XP1 knows much more than that.
The manufacturer states that the phone has IEC IP52 certification, which means that it even has to resist fire. (Ok, it doesn’t have to, but officially it works between -20 and +65 °C). To demonstrate this resistance, the company has uploaded lots of videos to YouTube, where they are testing the handset in extreme conditions. Here’s a little list of these tests:
First comes the beer test, then the break test, driving through it with a car, water resistance, used as a football, fastened to a petard, thrown in a cement mixer, shower test, falling, spilling milk on it, dirt and dust resistance.
So according to all signs, Sonim XP1 supersedes every other commercially available outdoor gadget, maybe the legendary Ericsson R250 Pro could be a competitor, but since that’s a five-six year old phone, there’s not much chance for a comparison.
A cikk még nem ért véget, kérlek, lapozz!
