Smash It: Motorola Defy vs. JCB Phone
*This Competition is Now Closed*
The lucky winner was Joanna Steffins of The Wirral who scooped a brand-spanking new Moto Defy for her suggestion of : “Securely attach it with something strong to the back of a car bumper (wedding tin-can styley), then drive off into the sunset dragging it behind you”. We’ll hopefully be filming Joanna’s entry (not like that you mucky sods) in the next couple of weeks and aim to have the resulting destruction uploaded to our YouTube channel soon after, so keep checking back!
These so-called tough phones seem to have been cropping up with a bit more regularity of late with both Motorola and tractor blokes JCB knocking out mobileular hardmen in the form of the Motorola Defy and the JCB Tradesman phone.
We were quite taken with supposedly indestructible Defy, not just because of its toughnut credentials, but also because it held up to all the rigorous testing we subject all of the blowers we get to (hours and hours of Angry Birds and YouTube nonsense). However, whist it did the technological business, we never actually got round to seeing just how hard it really is, save for the inevitable dropping of it as we struggled to bring too many cups of coffee back to our desks. We haven’t even got round to seeing what the JCB effort has in store, either as a phone, or an indestructible lump of tech. So we had an idea…
As we’ve a drawer full of the chuffing things we thought we’d see if they’re really as tough as they claim by pitting them against each other in a series of all-action tests. But rather than going for the obvious like slopping water on them, scraping them a bit or whatever, we thought we’d ask you, the massed ranks of P4u News & Community oglers, to come up with some ingenious ways in which we could put them through their paces.
So, if you reckon you can come up with any stuff we conceivably do to one (bearing in mind that for us to get hold of a jet engine/combine harvester/plastic explosives would be nigh on impossible), let us know in the comments below and we’ll see if we can get round to inflicting whatever damage you suggest. Hell, we’ll even make a video of it, you violent reprobates.
The best idea will not only be immortalised in film, but the person who came up with it will win a Motorola Defy!
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- The competition closes on 21 March 2011
- The winner will be chosen at random from all entrants.
- The winner will be announced on site on the evening of the 21 March, and will also be contacted via email.
- If we do not hear confirmation from the winner within 3 days that they accept the prize, the competition will be redrawn.
- No purchase necessary.
- No cash alternatives.
- We reserve the right to offer an alternative prize of the same value or higher.
- The determination and decision of the Editor on all matters will be final and no correspondence will be entered into. The Editor reserves the right in absolute discretion to disqualify any entry competitors, or nominee, add to, or write any rules, or to cancel the whole or part of any competition, game or promotion at any stage without prior notification.
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