Nokia release phone 'torture' photos
If you love gadgets, look away now, just viewing these images could make you feel a bit queasy.
These images show some of the brutal tests new gadgets are subjected to before they are released to the public.
They are repeatedly dropped on the floor, submerged in water and the buttons are hammered thousands of times ... and to think how much you worry about your handset.
Nokia conducts its evaluation of new phones at 11 torture test centres arond the world including ones in the UK, Japan, Finland and the US.
They record the tests with super-fast cameras (3,000 times faster than a normal video camera) and inspect the phones for damage with 1,000 times microscopes and 3D X-rays.
Because people press the main keys on their device an average of 200-300 times every day a special device has been developed which presses the keys up to one million times in the lab.
Phones are also repeatedly dropped onto a concrete surface to simulate falling from the height of a shirt pocket and are pressed with a steel fixture that applies 100 newtons to ensure they can stand up extreme force.
To test devices which are often in bags or pockets with other items like keys or coins, so the testers place them in a special "shaker" machine with hard particles to see how resistant they are.
Other tests include pouring chemicals on the phones, exposing them to extreme temperatures upto +85°C in a 'mobile phone sauna' and putting them in a special chamber for several weeks where they will experience humidity levels as high as 95%.
So how come one drop and my phone always seems to shatter into about 135 pieces?
