JCB builds Android blower for brickies

It's a blower

for your digger!

If you can't wash concrete off the touch screen under a tap, this won't last long in many brickies arse crack.

My Housemate is a brickie.

He's managed about a year with a Galaxy S protected from brick dust by a sock.

iP67

Subtle; very subtle.

Perfect for gigs!

My mate bought one for when go to heavy metal gigs in London clubs! It's perfect when you find your phone accidentally being kicked around and covered in beer on the floor of some dingy live music dive!

usless again

and again jcb dont bother asking folk what they need or

want, screen too small, very fiddly to use and it cant dig holes.

Gorilla glass?

I'm sure the ground in cement dust present in most builders fingers will be testing the scratch resistance of the glass a little more than originally intended.

Defy

How is it better than they Defy+JCB you referenced? The IP-rating is the same, both have a shock-resistant casing, same version of Android, but this has a smaller screen, slower CPU, and is more expensive.

Please could you add some journalistic input to your articles otherwise it sounds too much like the press release, I'd like to know why you decided to write about this phone when it has no USP.

I guess the main USP is that this is JCB's first smartphone? Doesn't look very good or anything, but it's still a rugged phone that serves a purpose and has multiple USPs.

Secondly, the Defy has never been IP-rated, so while essentially it offers the same protection, it isn't officially certified to do so. See link for debate.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1113432

Not sand resistant

My friend is a builder and has to use those flip/slide phones because it's easier to answer a call by jut flipping/sliding and not having to touch any buttons or screen. It also protects the screen somewhat and they slide in his back pocket fine.

I was a timber yard supervisor

I had the classic 3210 for years. From time to time when the screen became illegible from dust... Took front and back covers off, blew/wiped masses of dust off the business bit, washed other bits and dried under the hand drier, put back together, sorted!

It was a mosh pit at the Brixton Academy that finally put it on its death bed and even then it clung on slowly losing functions for a week or so. In the final hours just defaulting to a simple tone and unable to display the caller, just "call". Freeky!