Any recommendations for a rugged/waterproof phone ?
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Get a Lifeproof case for a normal phone http://www.lifeproof.co.uk
Yeah, how rugged to you need? There's some really good armoured phone cases around (eg Otterbox), and these days quite a few manufacturers are making waterproof phones (eg the Sony Xperia range) I've got a cheap e-bay plastic case on my Z1 Compact and it's survived being dropped loads of times, and regularly gets used in the rain.
my last company used iphones in otterbox defender cases and to my knowledge never had a breakage in 2 years within a case. Come replacement time after a wipe over most of the phones were almost pristine. Being apple the held value well offsetting the initial purchase cost.
These were phones used in sewers, construction sites, up electricity towers etc etc.
We did get broken toughbooks.....
These were phones used in sewers, construction sites, up electricity towers etc etc.
We did get broken toughbooks.....
Father has one of the landrover ones.
It was a very expensive phone for being a dumbphone (€250 iirc), but it was his first phone that lasted over a year, lasted three years and then he saw that his speaker for ringing had gathered some iron dust (magnets will do that), so he decided to "clean" it with a sharp nail
. It has been excellent tbh, has been left in the rain in the first week he had it, has been dropped in a bucket of mortar and dropped from 6m amongst others.
I bought him a ZTE R28, which looks like an exact copy of the phone he had, only a lot cheaper (€100) but all the same properties:
Another one that looks like the exact same handset is the "MTT Protection".
Benefits of a such a dumbphone vs a smartphone are plentiful if you don't need your phone to be "smart".
I've looked at the CAT phones, as they look a lot like what he had but they are cheap android phones with an old android version, I'd avoid them tbh, much better with a better phone (moto G) in a decent case.
It was a very expensive phone for being a dumbphone (€250 iirc), but it was his first phone that lasted over a year, lasted three years and then he saw that his speaker for ringing had gathered some iron dust (magnets will do that), so he decided to "clean" it with a sharp nail
. It has been excellent tbh, has been left in the rain in the first week he had it, has been dropped in a bucket of mortar and dropped from 6m amongst others.I bought him a ZTE R28, which looks like an exact copy of the phone he had, only a lot cheaper (€100) but all the same properties:
Another one that looks like the exact same handset is the "MTT Protection".
Benefits of a such a dumbphone vs a smartphone are plentiful if you don't need your phone to be "smart".
- His battery lasts over a week easily, two weeks if he doesn't use it a lot.
- Operate the phone with gloves (pick up when someone's dailing)
- Don't worry about dirty hands or dirty environment when picking up the phone, the button will just work.
I've looked at the CAT phones, as they look a lot like what he had but they are cheap android phones with an old android version, I'd avoid them tbh, much better with a better phone (moto G) in a decent case.
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