After 5 years of quality service

[Eagle Kammback]

My phone finally died
Samsung SGH-D357
I ran this phone over with the F150 (on wet grass, but still)
Multiple angry slams against the ground
Accidentally dropped it 4 floors onto concrete when pulling my keys out of my pocket at Liberty (2 buttons I never used popped out)
Been sprayed with water multiple times


Are there any new phones on the market this tough? Maybe with a louder speaker and longer battery life?

[tedly]

Re: After 5 years of quality service

There's a model from Samsung that was designed for contractors and construction workers. It's tough as nails, but I don't remember the model number. Comes in a safety yellow color. I'll try to find it somewhere and post the info.

[Eagle Kammback]

Re: After 5 years of quality service

Thanks

I don't need a phone with all these special features, I don't even need a camera, I want a phone that makes calls, and is tough

M brother got an iPhone 4G, it broke already, dropped it from about his knee and shattered the screen, I had a Sony Ericson, dropped it from about 18" onto CARPET and it broke the screen, TWICE

[tedly]

Re: After 5 years of quality service

That one IS tough. Got one for my mom because she keeps dropping the phone thanks to her arthritis. Not a single problem out of it in over a year and a half and the thing is constantly getting dropped from waist level or higher. You may not need all the features, but then don't use them. The camera comes in handy sometimes, but that's about all I use on my phones.

[JOES66FURY]

Re: After 5 years of quality service

Thanks

I don't need a phone with all these special features, I don't even need a camera, I want a phone that makes calls, and is tough

M brother got an iPhone 4G, it broke already, dropped it from about his knee and shattered the screen, I had a Sony Ericson, dropped it from about 18" onto CARPET and it broke the screen, TWICE

the motorola Razor was a good phone, I had mine 2 years and it fell out of my tuck more times that I can count, fell off the hood of the truck when I forgot it was there and pulled out...my son played with it all the time...took a real beating...I havee another motorola that I had for 3 years and my son uses it now...it has taken some major abuse....it is the Motorola V750

[TC]

Re: After 5 years of quality service

Tossed my Motorola Droid across the floor at Lone Star and it came away unharmed, but then I do have the nice military looking protective case for it. ;)

[IRONHEAD]

Re: After 5 years of quality service

most motorola's are good,, just not the el cheapo one..
i retired mine when I got the blackberry.. still works.. fine dropped it tons..
it's now my alarm clock..

[ethelkilledfred]

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Here is my last iphone-



I lost it at home @ 4:00 am one morning just before I left for work. I went back to look were I was parked, but instead of parking it and looking for I was using my headlights to drive slowly and looked around. I stopped and went inside and grabbed the home phone and called it. It rang from underneath, and I thought wow how lucky I didn't run it over. But not so lucky, I did run it over. This is the result of a Semi truck running over an iphone. It still worked, but I could not answer it or make calls cause the screen was broken.

[Brian Lohnes]

Re: After 5 years of quality service

It still worked, but I could not answer it or make calls cause the screen was broken.

Doesn't that mean it didn't work? :D

[IRONHEAD]

Re: After 5 years of quality service

It still worked, but I could not answer it or make calls cause the screen was broken.

Doesn't that mean it didn't work? :D

TILT TILT TILT

[Loren]

Re: After 5 years of quality service

Are there any new phones on the market this tough? Maybe with a louder speaker and longer battery life?

I can tell you that a new LG nv3 can take a lengthy trip through the air, land in the dirt to bounce and tumble to a sliding stop, and still work just a sh*tty as it did before.

[70chevyC-10]

Re: After 5 years of quality service

It still worked, but I could not answer it or make calls cause the screen was broken.

Doesn't that mean it didn't work? :D

Only when you tried to use it I guess. Otherwise it was fine.

[A/Fuel]

Re: After 5 years of quality service

I had a phone in my pocket while getting a little to close to a couple running 44amp mags. I don't know the physics involved but it fried it.
If I were him seeing as you were so hard on the last one and it managed to have a decent life, I'd stick with the same one.

[oldsman71]

Re: After 5 years of quality service

I break lots of phones :-\ I always get ones made on monday or friday :P

[chevy3100]

Re: After 5 years of quality service

Phones are a total crapshoot - some will take a beating and last, the same model might take only a fraction of the beating and die....

WIfe had a Nokia flip phone - she drove over it with an S10 Blazer on Ashpalt - no damage other than scratches (bad)
I had almost the identical phone, my dog stepped on it and the screen broke.....

Brother in law has an Iphone, leaves it IN his hot tube for an hour, lets it dry out and it still works great.
Wife has an Iphone, gets it wet for 10 seconds & it is a $600 paperweight.....

Also - the Iphone with the broken screen - screen can be replaced real cheap (like $40 bucks around here). Provided the rest of the phone still works....