Toughphone: Can it take a Boeing 767?

We’re upping our game here at SMS Text News in quite spectacular manner over the next few months.

The first rather stimulating task we’re aiming to complete is the brainchild of regular Monday contributor, Ben Smith. At the Nokia WOMWorld meeting the other day we were discussing the Toughphone and I was describing how I took it to the top of the ski slope in Heavenly and did some rather aggressive stamping on it — the handset still worked perfectly afterwards.

Ben reckons we should run a Boeing 767 over it.

All 60 tons of it.

I agree.

He’s been in touch with a colleague. Armed with qualifying passports, it seems we might well be able to obtain permission to try running over a Toughphone with a 767. I don’t reeeeeeellly expect the phone to handle that at all well. I’d be perfectly content if the handset came out the other end completely flat. It isn’t, after all, every day that your average construction worker lets his phone get run over by a Jet.

We’ll keep you updated.

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