The 35 minute virtual tour of Nokia Test Labs
A couple of days ago, I was invited to spend the day at Nokia's Testing Labs at Farnborough, UK, being given a tour of the facilities and numerous demonstrations along the way. The aim was to spread the word about how rigorously Nokia test their handsets' hardware and on that front I was extremely impressed. AAS video podcast 37 is a fairly full 35 minutes of footage from the tour (taken on the N93 and N82, for those that are interested) and will let you see and hear what I saw. Enjoy.
(If the embedding below doesn't work for you then here's the direct (and slightly higher resolution) web-watch URL: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1683931603521695595&hl=en)
Did you know: Seeing what all Nokia's handsets have to go through in order to be approved for production gave me a new respect for the reliability and reputation of its hardware. Watch the video if you think I'm easily swayed..... Special thanks again to Ray Haddow of Nokia for putting the tour together. Look out for more information from the test labs tour on AAS soon. Steve Litchfield
Published by Steve Litchfield at 8:05 UTC, November 21st
Categories: Hardware, Miscellaneous, Events
Platforms: General, S60 3rd Edition
News Discussion
I would be like a kid in a sweet shop. I really envy you guys for getting the chance to go and visit these labs, it would be a dream come true for me. Every boys dreams. Well, Nokia enthusiasts anyway.
Well done Steve.!
still, really cool
LOL - dont we all want that? :)
Speaking as someone who has a very used N95 which has no slider problems, I reckon they did fix the slider issue at some point, at least on my handset.
Actually just came to mind what that would be: someone in Finland stepping in from the cold and then going into a sauna. ;-)
So... do they also beat the test units with birch brances? ;-)
Anyway, thanks for putting that up, Steve, it's [I]extremely[/I] interesting. I've done a bit of life testing myself in previous lives. Very perceptive questions too, if I may make so bold.
I see their Kevin Smith is a similar size to Kevin Smith the film director, but not as funny. Sorry, Kevin: I hear the American one is rubbish at engineering.
Steve, what became of your flooded E71?
If there are any other handsets that you'd like Rafe to water-test, drop him an email!!
gizmodo also published a similar story
[url]http://gizmodo.com/5094602/a-look-at-the-nokia-damage-test-labs[/url]
It's not a campaign, as such, they've just opened their doors in a very public way for a day.
ILG
The problem is that these test machines seem to cost a fortune (I think he said just one slow motion camera on one test unit cost £10,000) and it's hard to see where the money would come from to do it.
I seem to remember reading a Nokia (I think!) blog post about this, where they were saying how the operational temperature range for the iPhone wasn't suitable for use in Finland.
I suppose that the capacitive screen is also a bit tricky to use outside with gloves on (not that buttons are much easier).
You can download any video from Youtube, Megavideo, etc. from vid23.com
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