Beware! Water soluable phones

[Paddy_N_Murphy]

SWMBO never bothers to organise herself with phones/ upgrades and just gets suckered by the provider to take the next 18 mo deal and never knows what phone she wants etc.

Result ? She uses them, breaks them, takes an old one of mine, and literally washes & repeats.


I ended up getting her a Samsung Solid Extreme http://www.samsung.com/uk/consumer/mobile-phones/mobile-phones/bar/GT-B2100SRAXEU/index.idx?pagetype=prd_detail

Waterproof to 0.5m for 30min submergence. Shock proof, Dust proof.

Bought it contract free from Amazon for about £60.

The Sound quality is not at that awesome, but so far so good !
Downside is the PC / Address book compatibility compared to a Nokia.


I may or may not of several times taken it and put it in peoples pints to prove a point that it is waterproof

 

[AntarcticPilot]

Anyone tried this? I've seen one and it looks very tough, and it is an interesting alternative to the more commercial offerings!

 

[Babylon]

Anyone tried this? I've seen one and it looks very tough, and it is an interesting alternative to the more commercial offerings!

Looks great, but "The software available on the phone makes it suitable for power users and developers only -- it is not yet ready for the general consumer."

 

[AntarcticPilot]

Looks great, but "The software available on the phone makes it suitable for power users and developers only -- it is not yet ready for the general consumer."

I've seen one being used by an OpenSOurce expert, and actually, I think that the statement above is a bit OTT. Sure, it is being marketed at OS developers - but it is capable anyway. And it is basically a cut-down version of Linux on it, so it will run anything that is sensible within the confines of the display. But it really is for specialist applications; the people I saw were interested in developing geographic data logging applications for it.

Personally i thought it was a great idea, and if I had the money to spend on a "toy", I'd get one!