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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."

6 of 112 comments (clear)

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

    mirrordot

  2. Special permission? by Rob+T+Firefly · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Disclaimer: I was given special permission by Verizon to stress-test the G'zOne. Verizon and I both agree: DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME. These tests were performed so that we as consumers can validate Verizon's claims without you having to test them yourself. If you break your own equipment, you're the one responsible.
    I understand why the reviewer would want a disclaimer of some sort, but since when does a product reviewer need "special permission" from a vendor to do a proper review?
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  3. Re:I wonder how resistant the LCD is to cracking by Intron · · Score: 5, Funny

    Here's the link to what you need.

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  4. Re:So they're building things like they used to. by clonmult · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Likewise. My first phone, a Nokia 6130 (branded Nk702) took a major dip in Tango, which just made the keys a bit sticky, open up, clean keyboard, and it was fine.

    After it got retired, I passed it to my son for use as a kiddies toy, and it took years of that abuse. Never really checked to see if it worked, but then realised it had a bunch of numbers in it I needed. Powered it up after 3 years of being a toddlers toy (hate to think the abuse it experienced), and everything worked perfectly.

    Menu was snappier than most of the current batch of phones as well. And battery life was considerably better. Progress, eh?

  5. Oblig. ATHF by Dachannien · · Score: 5, Funny

    "G'zOne" is not an electronic device, it is a name for a freaking Klingon.

    Hip College-Age Guy on TV Commercial: Dude, you're getting an OoGhiJ MIQtxxXA!

  6. 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.