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Nokia 5500 survives Dust, Earth, Milk, Beer, Running Tap, Multiple Falls and Car

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The Russian website mforum.ru has done a rather astonishing durability test of the Nokia 5500, and it did well. They put the 5500 in a vacuum cleaner, buried it in a garden, bathed it in milk, bathed it in beer, held it under a tap, dropped it from a height of 2 metres, then 4 metres, then 6 metres, and ran it over with a car. It survived the lot, and only broke when they ran it over with the car a second time, at higher speed. The site's in Russian but the pictures and videos speak for themselves.

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