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Stress Testing Cell Phones
Gregory Quirk
4/20/2009 11:15 AM EDT
As I have mentioned previously, I had to replace my BlackBerry after it
hit a rock when it fell out of the holster. This got me wondering about
how companies go about stress testing consumer products, and
specifically cell phones. A colleague sent me a link for "Testing time for mobile phones" found
on the BBC News program called >Click.
It is a really interesting story about how Nokia stress tests the products that they put out into the market, which includes more than 200 physical tests. The story talks about durability tests, like how often and how hard certain buttons are pressed, environmental test, like leaving it in extreme hot and cold temperatures, drop tests (which I would have like RIM to do more of :-), and physical build of the phone.
What tests do you think should be done more or less of? Are there situations that are missing? How about having a two year old want to call mom on it and throwing it in the dog food bowl when you say no?
It is a really interesting story about how Nokia stress tests the products that they put out into the market, which includes more than 200 physical tests. The story talks about durability tests, like how often and how hard certain buttons are pressed, environmental test, like leaving it in extreme hot and cold temperatures, drop tests (which I would have like RIM to do more of :-), and physical build of the phone.
What tests do you think should be done more or less of? Are there situations that are missing? How about having a two year old want to call mom on it and throwing it in the dog food bowl when you say no?
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