SOUTHWOOD, England – Kevin Smith, reliability labs team leader, jokes that he gets a new pair of jeans every month. Not because he’s hard on jeans, simply because the old ones get strapped to a machine designed to test phones. The test is one I’d never imagined taking place, but I’m pretty glad it does. It simulates what happens when owners rub their phone on their jeans to give the screen a quick clean. Yep, I do it, and I bet you do too.
SOUTHWOOD, England – That was the opening line Robert Johnson, senior engineering manager from Nokia’s UK testing and reliability labs gave us when we met him yesterday. We were in the labs with the guys from Pocket-Lint, AllAboutSymbian and MobileIndustryReview to find out just how Nokia tests it’s phones. If you’re anything like us, and thought a drop test involved one guy standing on the top of the building and another at the bottom shouting “okay, John, drop it now” then you might be surprised to find it’s a bit more sophisticated than that.
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