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A telephone with the body made entirely out of rubber. The rubber compond used would include an odorless liquid dog repellent, which would stop it from being chewed. [link]
The circuit board inside would be made of flexible plastic, and the speaker and microphone would be made out of polyvinylidene
fluoride. [link]
Flexible speaker
http://kn.koreahera...07/200104070018.asp
[Cedar Park, Oct 04 2004]
Repellent Liquid
http://www.bugspray...oducts/page632.html
For dogs, cats and small children. [Cedar Park, Oct 04 2004]
Nokia 5210
http://www.nokia.co.../0,4879,125,00.html
[FloridaManatee, Oct 04 2004]
Siemens ME45
http://www.cellular...01/siemens_me45.htm
You can have any colour you want, so long as it is grey. [UnaBubba, Oct 04 2004]
a rubber using his telephone
http://funreports.c...02/10/29/38851.html
[FarmerJohn, Oct 04 2004]
History of Nokia
http://www.nokiainf...et/nokiahistory.php
[krelnik, Oct 04 2004]
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Nokia make one. All the bits necessary to achieve your goal of near-indestructibility are rubber. |
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Dog repellant they don't do. |
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[FM]: Nokia's is merely a plastic phone in rubber garb. We've all seen bits of rubber here and there on home and mobile telephones. The phone I propose has its entire case made out of rubber. Probably not possible with a cellular, given the amount of circuitry and batteries. |
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The Kodak DC5000 camera is shockproof, for falls of up to about 6 feet. |
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I have a Siemens mobile phone that is shockproof and waterproof. Quite a bit of the case of it is rubber. |
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Someone was making a rubber phone, a few years ago, but I can't remember which manufacturer it was. I do remember that they were day-glo orange. Might have been Ericsson. |
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I used to own a rubber alarm clock that you threw against the wall to use the sleep alarm. Sorry it's off base with the cellphone theme, but it was made of all rubber. |
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Tell me, do they actually DESIGN electronics so that the battery or battery door ALWAYS pops out/open when you drop it? Is it some kind of stress releif or what? |
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Well, the Siemens 'phone I mentioned has a screwlock on the battery, so it doesn't fly out when you drop it. |
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I've always been amazed at how fragile Nokia phones are, despite their popularity. My friends are constantly relating horror stories. I've dropped my Kyocera phone many, many times, from heights of 3 to 6 feet including onto hard pavement, and it still keeps going. The battery has never popped loose in a fall. So clearly some companies (other than Nokia) have a clue about how to do this right without using rubber. |
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It would make sense for Nokia to make this however, as the company was originally called the Finnish Rubber Works back in the 1920's! (See link) |
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Lots and lots of duct tape. |
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My experience of Nokia phones is opposite to [krelnik]'s. Last year I dropped my 3210 down into the light well in front of my basement window (~8 feet) onto bricks and it suffered no ill effects. Previously I'd bounced my old Nokia 100 (analog thing) down my (stone) basement stairs, all ten of them, with similar results. |
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Sounds like the makings of a new Olympic sport. |
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