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Stress-Testing the Verizon G'zOne Cellphone

Posted by kdawson on from the extreme-abuse dept.

abkaiser writes "You can dunk it under water. Put it in the oven and crank up the heat. Drop it, smack it, treat it like the hunk of plastic that it is. And yet this is a cellphone. I got my hands on the Verizon G'zOne (pronounced 'G-Z-One'), a phone designed for high-abuse environments. Come for the test methodology, stay for the photo of a cellphone cooking in an oven."

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  1. Dotted already by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    mirrordot

  2. Lost in translation by Zadaz · · Score: 3, Informative

    The -one- cool phone they bring over from Japan and they uglify it.

    And strip half the features and change twice at much. Guess that's what took two years.

    (Link to original phone.)

  3. Re:I wonder how resistant the LCD is to cracking by Odiumjunkie · · Score: 4, Informative

    I dropped my Treo in a parking lot after taking some hefty back-pain meds... When returned the next day, the LCD was cracked but the left side worked. I have to cut-and-paste text messages then add carriage feed returns so I can read the text... $100 for new screen $200 for new (replacement) treo $300 for new treo version Too cheap and lazy to upgrade or fix it now...


    When I broke the screen on my sony ericsson T610 about a year ago, I was given a quote of about $200 for a new branded screen - I went to my local asian-run backstreet electronics store and got a new generic screen installed for $30 including labour (although labour is nothing, I could have installed it myself). Anyways, it was hugely cheaper than a branded part, and brighter than the original to boot! It's been working flawlessly since then.