Monday March 02, 2009
Mobiles get the crash test
Simon Usborne
Independent
Phones are always being dropped, squashed and prodded. So how on earth do they survive?
Tied down with metal clamps on steel benches, ranks of mobile phones are being technologically tortured. If they could cry out, they would – but nobody would hear, because the noise of a hundred steel pistons pummelling their fascias is so loud that people rarely visit this windowless room for more than a few minutes at a time.
And, anyway, the walls are soundproofed. "This is what I do," Kevin Smith shouts over the din. "I break mobile phones."
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