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Nexus 4 - Did you get it yet?

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Freedom Kira:
Don't forget about Nokia. My N8 is pretty damn solid, have dropped it on concrete a couple times with no problems (luckily the floor also made it through without a crack). I would think the Lumias are pretty solid too, but I haven't held one yet.

AceHigh:
Bah, threw nokias against the wall repeatedly to see them break into 3 parts, which I assembled later only to have them work again. So don't even get me started on Nokia phones that refuse to be destroyed.

Tiffanys:
lol, that title... "yet"

Phone looks like garbage to be honest, another iClone. Nothing new or impressive about it.

Anyways as I've said before in another cellphone thread... I wouldn't get one without a physical qwerty as a built-in feature. And I'd like to see one that reacts to non-warm surfaces like... nails. Again, built-in. Not some nail add-on.

AceHigh:
Resistance based touch-screens allow you to do that. Since they detect pressure, you can poke them with a stick if you like. Likewise they operate at very cold temperatures because they don't give a damn about moisture needed to operate capacitive touch-screens.

In that regard I tortured my Nokia X2 in various ways already. Everything from dropping it unto asphalt and into the snow. That time I submerged into the river with my phone it stopped working for like a day. Then it still had problems recognizing USB for a while. I guess after all the water dried it started to work perfectly again. Likewise my last phone was also drowned, kicked, thrown, used it as a bottle opener and a bludgeoning weapon. Lasted for 6 years and the only reason I bought new is because the keypad started to fall off and I heard weird rattling sound in it... oh and the speaker was blown.

My projection is that my current one will last at least 4 more years and the main question is what phones will be available in that time. Maybe I will actually throw away money at one of those really toughly built ones.

rostheferret:
Ah yeah, the Nokia's. Was tempted by the new Lumia partly for that reason, but the price and the fact I'd have to use it as a Windows phone deterred me. My Sony Xperia Mini pro was pretty rugged too. I mean, it fell out of my pocket, had the headphones yanked out and got run over by a car and I picked it up and plugged them back in again without issue. It's easy enough to slap a decent case on a phone, though admittedly I doubt it'd survive a car going over it. The main selling point for this one was the price. Half the price of all the competition with none of the loss in specs? I'll be having that thank you very much.

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