Watch the Nokia N8 and iPhone 4 get test tortured to death

18 February, 2011
When we buy a new phone we are always concerned if its body is scratch-resistant or will it get dirty quickly. This is essential information because when the time comes to sell it, the better it looks the higher price...

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  • Anonymous
  • R}7
  • 20 Feb 2011

I am neither Apple nor Nokia phone... but definitely I can tell iPhone is very bad at signal strength the sources are many of my iPhone user friends who have been using iP1,2,3 and so I have serious doubt about the stress test given above as they gave 3/3 rating for signal strength

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    • agusforthebest
    • uE5
    • 20 Feb 2011

    Hate to hardcore, 20 Feb 2011Wow amazing they did trick our eyes to show dat glass is st... moreHi Hate to hardcore,
    The glass is strongger then aluminium in term of scratch and weaker intrem of broke when you punch its.
    Please see the specification thant N8 use scratch proof class(Gorila)
    Have a nice day.

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      • Hate to hardcore
      • 2Ir
      • 20 Feb 2011

      Anonymous, 20 Feb 2011Nokia fan boys are like this all the time. They defended th... moreWow amazing they did trick our eyes to show dat glass is stronger than aluminium,I bet if ip5 is made out of paper,they'd still show paper is more durable than aluminium,damn hardcore fan boys :(

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        • AnonD-977
        • PBc
        • 20 Feb 2011

        Yet Another Android, 20 Feb 2011Oh thats easy to explain but I'll let this link speak for i... moreYep:-

        http://www.google.com/m?oe=utf-8&client=ms-opera-mobile&channel=new&aq=&oq=&aqi=&fkt=&fsdt=&htf=&his=&q=nokia+n8+won%27t+switch+back+on

        Right back at you.

        ;)

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          • AnonD-1082
          • kJX
          • 20 Feb 2011

          Yet Another Android, 20 Feb 2011Oh thats easy to explain but I'll let this link speak for i... moreIt seems like all phones got some kinks and defects of some sort. There's no such thing as perfect. =)

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            • AnonD-1082
            • kJX
            • 20 Feb 2011

            -thegame-, 20 Feb 2011GSMarena should include these kinds of stress tests in thei... morelol They should have dropped it higher. No offense to the midget fans out there but only midgets would drop a phone at a height of 1.6 feet. =)

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              • Yet Another Android
              • RbX
              • 20 Feb 2011

              AnonD-977, 19 Feb 2011So, explain this:- http://www.bing.com/search?q=Nokia+N8... moreOh thats easy to explain but I'll let this link speak for itself:

              http://www.google.com/m?client=ms-opera-mobile&channel=new&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&q=iphone%204%20won%27t%20switch%20back%20on

              See how easy that was to do?

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                • Anonymous
                • PSY
                • 20 Feb 2011

                Whatever, nokia is failing and its CEO agreed. Apple is at its peak and its share is all time high. Apple won't consider nokia as rival since nokia is best known for 20$ phone seller now. Apple will compete with htc and samsung. Symbian will kill nokia. Europeans are not very good in programming softwares or os. Americans OSes like ios, android, wp7 and no need to mention windows. So nokia, wake up and produce more wp7 and android phones. learn how moto survived and lg too.

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                  • -thegame-
                  • kxN
                  • 20 Feb 2011

                  GSMarena should include these kinds of stress tests in their reviews. For the most part, GSMarena is pretty unbiased and so implementing these tests into their reviews would further reveal the quality-build of any phone under review.

                  Also, if GSMarena applied these tests to their reviews, please make sure that its the exact same tests in the exact same order that they are performed for each phone.

                  Bring back pagers!!! lol....

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                    • AnonD-1097
                    • tUn
                    • 20 Feb 2011

                    bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12491883


                    go read dis link....apple greedy asses..........

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                      • AnonD-1097
                      • tUn
                      • 20 Feb 2011

                      Hahahhhaa......this one is funny.......the whole world knows that N8 is way tougher than iphone 4g........my frd has 2 iphone lying with display cracked.....and he had seen my N8 .....fall in front of him....nthing happened to my fone.....his fone just fell from standing height.......plz go to youtube to see the real test of iphone.....N8 Rocks

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                        • AnonD-583
                        • myA
                        • 20 Feb 2011

                        [deleted post]Get this guy off the forms. I liked these tests. They told me 2 things if I want to go swimming get an iphone for everthing else theres a Nokia.

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                          • AnonD-1082
                          • kJX
                          • 20 Feb 2011

                          [deleted post]That's your source? Sorry but your awareness is lacking in both understanding and credibility. If the N8 really sold that much then it would have been posted all over the web. If it was writen by a credible newspaper it would also been up as well. Your claims are not backed by any credible sources and it's nothing more than just a fanboy propaganda.

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                            • Raj
                            • wfx
                            • 20 Feb 2011

                            totally rubbish testing .. I have both phone and if i drop both of them from 20 feet or so. I am sure i will my iphone only into bits and pieces.

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                              • Anonymous
                              • nEw
                              • 20 Feb 2011

                              Nokia fan boys are like this all the time. They defended the N97 to death until ANSSI VANJOKI came out and admitted they had a problem with the handset. This is why I keep going on about fan boys being the main reason behind Nokia's fall, rather than demanding better from Nokia they just take the shit that they produce. No one is arguing the fact that aluminium body is stronger than glass "not plastic". These are just tests carried out on any phone they can get their hands on. If you go to the website you will find plenty other phones that have put through similar tests. There's no conspiracy just facts. High End Nokia devises have suffered from poor quality over the years and there can only be one reason for that, people are not demanding better all of which comes back to fan boys, they take anything as long as it's labelled NOKIA.

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                                • Pöllö
                                • pda
                                • 19 Feb 2011

                                FAKE! iphone 4 laggs and cracks the screen in cold tempiture... and you dident show wat happend after the poket test! n8 beats iPhone 4 in a stress test in finland weather.

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                                  • AnonD-1825
                                  • mhP
                                  • 19 Feb 2011

                                  [deleted post]Nokia has SHIPPED 4 million N8 during october-december, by the way this news posted every mobile site in finland 30 december.

                                  and then i looked the date the comment about N8 ten million sells what you pasted, it was 2010-11-24.

                                  Do you understand what's wrong with those two lines? THEY DONT MATCH NOT EVEN CLOSE!

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                                    • Anonymous
                                    • vj1
                                    • 19 Feb 2011

                                    its obvious
                                    that those who tested the
                                    phones are apple fan-boys as
                                    they did not bother to show the
                                    result of the wearout test for
                                    iphone.
                                    Plus, all people know that when
                                    an iPhone comes in a close
                                    contact with water ( or other
                                    liquid ) the built-in 'damp-
                                    sensor' will show that and the
                                    device will ( or at least should )
                                    turn off.
                                    The test is crap, crap crap...

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                                      • ghe
                                      • vj1
                                      • 19 Feb 2011

                                      that's funny cheap
                                      glass vs aluminum and cheap
                                      glass won?

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                                        • AnonD-977
                                        • P%n
                                        • 19 Feb 2011

                                        Yet Another Android, 19 Feb 2011And heres the iPhone 4 failing miserably: Antennaegate ... moreSo, explain this:-

                                        http://www.bing.com/search?q=Nokia+N8+won%27t+switch+back+on&go=&form=QBRE&filt=all&qs=n&sk=