Samsung is a a well known and highly respected company in the electronics industry as a whole. They make high quality HDTV’s, phones, and even digital cameras. They are well known in the mobile space for their extremely stylish and functional cellular phones. They make an extremely wide variety of phones, but their most interesting phone currently is the Samsung Instinct, their competitor to the iPhone.

Samsung also makes a nice variety of advanced texting phones with QWERTY keyboards built in. Clearly this is a company that gets that typing texts using a numeric pad is like torture. It takes forever and it just not intuitive, no matter how you try and slice it. (more…)

Ever wondered wondered how it is that your phone can sit in your pocket, day after day, taking all the abuse that you could possibly dish out and not flinching? What about the time your phone got dropped in the toilet and still worked(after the smell went away)? Let’s face it, cell phones take a lot of abuse day after day, and somehow they manage to not roll over and die most of the time. Of course, every once in a while there are some real duds that make it through quality control, but on the whole, cell phones are pretty reliable little devices.

If you’ve ever wondered how they got there, you should check out a fascinating series of videos over on Techcrunch Mobile. They got access to nokia’s hardware testing labs and took a series of videos. It’s extremely cool and will give you a new respect for what your phone goes through before it ever even touches your hands.