OtterBox has been the number one name in making mobiles ready for the rugged lifestyle, and their latest product is bringing the same service to the BlackBerry Bold. Since the BlackBerry Pearl, OtterBox has been changing their overall design strategy; they’ve moved away from fully-encapsulated, waterproof, cases that could stop a bullet in a pinch,…
Airlite 900 Review
Bluetooth headsets are plenty popular, but unless you’re a corporate powerhouse who’s on the phone nonstop or a yuppie too cool to hold a phone in their hand like the rest of us plebeians, headsets aren’t that practical to be wearing all the time. Honeywell’s recently-launched Airlite 900 aims to provide an alternative hands-free solution…
Reader input required: how would you test a ruggedised handset?
Following on from my post yesterday, I continue to garner test requirements for the physical examination of mobile communications devices by means of impaction of inaminate object(s) – or in other words, how to batter some ruggedised handsets in to submission! If you would like to see extreme physical peril come to the Nokia 5140…
Reader input required: how would you test a ruggedised handset?
So the other day I hit upon a great idea – I’m an outdoorsy kinda guy, I like my mobile gadgets, and I always shed a small electronic tear when one of them gets damaged. So rather than weep, I figured I should turn that frown upside down and test out some devices that just…
Decision Time: Nokia N82 Review, to publish or not to publish?
I’m in the last stretch of my Nokia N82 review titled “Nokia N95, N95 8gb and N82: The evolution of the multimedia computer,” when all of a sudden my N82 breaks. I wanted to take a picture so I took the phone out of my pocket, flipped the shutter down and this is what I’m…