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.

Shoutout: Hey, head over to fill in a survey at Nokia Beta Labs

ESPOO, Finland – Nokia has many ways in which it works with customers on products (here is a great overview). The folks at Nokia Beta Labs are constantly finding software and services that are being developed and many in internal testing with employees (though our Alpha Labs team, of course). When they find something interesting, they put them in the Beta Labs for the public to use, rate, comment on, and help improve. And, beta products that do well end up graduating and going off into the world.

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The proof is in the playtime

PALO ALTO, USA - The metamorphosis of a phone from conception to in your pocket can be freakishly fast. So one of the most crucial times in a handset’s evolution is early on in the prototype phase, where there’s the most opportunity to hone designs.