Sonim XP3 Quest

Sonim XP3 Quest

Sonim XP3 Quest phone is very nice to look.. Rather, it's a freezable, drownable, drive-overable, drop-tested-to-2m phone for the world's butterfingers, builders, mountaineers and arctic explorers.

On the inside it's mostly just your average tri-band setup 176x220-pixel, 65k colour display, 2-megapixel camera, MP3 player, Opera Mini Web browser, stereo Bluetooth. It's got GPS and a turn-by-turn navigation app, though no 3G data connectivity -- just EDGE and GPRS.

You can pretty much beat the bejeezus out of it and it'll keep working. If you don't make a call, it'll stay alive for up to 62 days on standby, and it offers 18 solid hours of talk time.

And if it does somehow cave to the terrors of nature or a baby Sonim offers an unconditional three-year guarantee to replace it. 

It'll cost you around £300 SIM-free direct from Sonim's Web site, where you can also read more technical details about its built-to-be-beaten-the-hell-up certifications. More photos over the page.