AAS's month of trying to destroy Nokia smartphones concludes with me taking an unscheduled fall and hurting myself rather nastily. An N82 helped break my fall, yet still works perfectly. After Rafe's attempts to drown an N95 8GB and an E71, how much more do we have to do to break one of these things? Summing up, I reckon that robustness is a factor often forgotten by other gadget blogs and reviewers.

"Now, in trade shows and in phone shops and (of course) in the hands of new users across the world, the wonders of designs like the new Nokia N97, the HTC Touch Pro, the T-Mobile G1, the Apple iPhone and even traditional Nokia designs like the N95, N85 or N96, are all easy to appreciate. The devices are cosseted, lovingly caressed and treated like royalty.

Then the real world hits. Literally."

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