{"id":559,"date":"2011-01-31T09:24:33","date_gmt":"2011-01-31T07:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/outofmymind.scanlen.com\/?p=559"},"modified":"2011-01-31T09:24:33","modified_gmt":"2011-01-31T07:24:33","slug":"worlds-most-rugged-phones-sonim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/outofmymind.scanlen.com\/?p=559","title":{"rendered":"Worlds Most Rugged Phones &#8211; Sonim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-380\" title=\"Topic - Interesting\" src=\"http:\/\/outofmymind.scanlen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Interesting-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>A while back I was chatting to my Cape Town colleague, Francois Jordaan, and asked him what cellphone I could get my standby technicians.<\/p>\n<p>I wanted something that would be rugged and have a LOOOOOONG battery life.<\/p>\n<p>He said that he would email me a clip on a phone that he was using. It was called a Sonim. He said this phone was water proof, shock proof and had a 3 year warranty. \u00a0Water proof phone??<\/p>\n<p>Here is the video that he sent me, it is a 4 min 30 sec clip but be sure to watch the WHOLE clip:<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/q-Sjk75ZiVQ?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/q-Sjk75ZiVQ?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Seriously if you don&#8217;t want to get one now after watching this clip then I don&#8217;t know&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I paid in R650,00 on a Vodacom Business package for the phone for the technicians.<\/p>\n<p>In case you are wondering yes it definitely IS waterproof&#8230; I took it home one evening, put water in the kitchen sink and placed the phone in the water. \u00a0I then went to the bedroom and dialed the phone. \u00a0I then shouted down the passage asking my wife to please answer the phone. \u00a0Imagine her surprise discovering where the ringing was coming from!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while back I was chatting to my Cape Town colleague, Francois Jordaan, and asked him what cellphone I could get my standby technicians. I wanted something that would be rugged and have a LOOOOOONG battery life. He said that he would email me a clip on a phone that he was using. It was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting-finds"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/outofmymind.scanlen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/outofmymind.scanlen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/outofmymind.scanlen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/outofmymind.scanlen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/outofmymind.scanlen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=559"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/outofmymind.scanlen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":575,"href":"http:\/\/outofmymind.scanlen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions\/575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/outofmymind.scanlen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/outofmymind.scanlen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/outofmymind.scanlen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}