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My first phone was a RugGear RG930. If you think Nokia’s 3310 was built like a brick, then this thing may as well have been a rubberised titanium brick. It was

My first phone was a RugGear RG930. If you think Nokia’s 3310 was built like a brick, then this thing may as well have been a rubberised titanium brick. It was so solid I used to play ‘catch the phone’ with friends, and it ended up face down on concrete more times than I can count, but I don’t think it ever sustained so much as a scratch. If the RG930 ran Android, I reckon I could go for the high score.

prmoustache 2y ago
I had a rugged android phone from Blackview that was deemed to survive terrible stuff...I managed to drop it into the ocean. Bought another one for my significant other after changing the screen of her samsung smartphone 3 times. She has used it for more than a year, it slipped from her jacket once from my motorbike. Someone found it 1h later in the middle of a roundabout face down with tire marks on the case. He saw it only because I was calling it and it has some notification lights at the back. Not a single scratch on the screen! Her only complaints is the quality of the photos taken with the camera. I wish they were supported by alternative roms like lineageos or /e/os.
- lawlessone 2y ago
  >I managed to drop it into the ocean. Will survive being subducted under a continental plate?
  - 0x7cfe 2y ago
    We'll never know unless it would be ejected by a volcano a few millenia from now.
Cthulhu_ 2y ago
A colleague showed me their Caterpillar-branded phone, it was proper ruggedized like you see in construction radios and the like, big bumpers, plastic screen, he casually yote it onto the floor to demonstrate. Mainly so he can pass it to his kids if they're bored. The current generation Cat branded phones look pretty regular, but are probably still much more rugged than most phones.
mbonnet 2y ago
When I lived in Sierra Leone circa 2012, a lot of expats had phones like this. Ruggedized, could handle anything - dust, falling into a silty river, anything. Many a game of catch were played with them.

prmoustache 2y ago

I had a rugged android phone from Blackview that was deemed to survive terrible stuff...I managed to drop it into the ocean. Bought another one for my significant other after changing the screen of her samsung smartphone 3 times. She has used it for more than a year, it slipped from her jacket once from my motorbike. Someone found it 1h later in the middle of a roundabout face down with tire marks on the case. He saw it only because I was calling it and it has some notification lights at the back. Not a single scratch on the screen! Her only complaints is the quality of the photos taken with the camera. I wish they were supported by alternative roms like lineageos or /e/os.

lawlessone 2y ago
>I managed to drop it into the ocean. Will survive being subducted under a continental plate?
- 0x7cfe 2y ago
  We'll never know unless it would be ejected by a volcano a few millenia from now.

Cthulhu_ 2y ago

A colleague showed me their Caterpillar-branded phone, it was proper ruggedized like you see in construction radios and the like, big bumpers, plastic screen, he casually yote it onto the floor to demonstrate. Mainly so he can pass it to his kids if they're bored. The current generation Cat branded phones look pretty regular, but are probably still much more rugged than most phones.

mbonnet 2y ago

When I lived in Sierra Leone circa 2012, a lot of expats had phones like this. Ruggedized, could handle anything - dust, falling into a silty river, anything. Many a game of catch were played with them.