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By Chris Ziegler
posted October 7th 2009 9:07PM Featured Video 
We had a chance to take a tour of Nokia's research and development facility in San Diego this week -- and while we're afraid to say we didn't see any Maemo 6-powered devices or Symbian^4 emulators lying around, we did see some pretty cool stuff, particularly in the product testing laboratories where engineering samples and final products are put through pure hell. The idea is to simulate years' worth of real-life product use in just a few days -- individual tests last anywhere from a few hours to three weeks or longer -- by pressing buttons, sliding sliders, actuating hinges, heating, cooling, wetting, drying, dropping, whacking, shaking, rubbing, bending, and generally defacing the phones in every way imaginable. Once a phone finally breaks, they look for obvious reasons -- cracked plastic, broken springs, and the like -- but if that initial analysis fails, they've got a well-equipped lab on site complete with a scanning electron microscope and CT scanner for taking microscopic looks at failed components in both two and three dimensions; from here, they can find broken connections on chips, incorrectly-fabricated materials, and the occasional ant eye magnified a couple thousand times (it's posted on the wall in the lab, and yes, it's scary). Follow the break for a cheerful montage of a few Nokia phones getting mercilessly beaten beyond recognition. 9
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LessThanDug Posted Oct 7th 2009 10:20PM Highly Ranked I really wanted to hear what the guy was saying haha.
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compboss17 Posted Oct 7th 2009 11:56PM Neutral Yeah me too, why can't you guys post one without the annoying music??
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barwin Posted Oct 8th 2009 1:45AM Neutral Very cool job this guy has :-)
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Kensai Posted Oct 8th 2009 1:47AM Neutral This is simply amazing. I loved the vibration table, lol!
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Groovy100 Posted Oct 8th 2009 3:59AM Highly Ranked That's what SHE said!
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efekt Posted Oct 8th 2009 4:02AM Neutral Come on guys, can you at least put a 2nd version WITHOUT the music from Transportation Tycoon Deluxe, so we could at least hear that guy's explanations (preferably with subtitles, for those really noisy parts)?
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(Unverified) Posted Oct 8th 2009 6:26AM Neutral It would've been nice to see the phones break!
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(Unverified) Posted Oct 8th 2009 8:02AM Neutral i'd love to work for Nokia!!
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