Can you recommend an utterly reliable, waterproof mobile phone? I work in remote areas for the avalanche service in Scotland in the winter and modern "waterproof", "rugged" phones seem flimsy by comparison to the Motorola 8000 "brick" that I used to have.
Tom Rupar
There's clearly a need for rugged mobile phones for emergency services and military uses, and perhaps a much bigger potential market among outdoor enthusiasts who want to take their phones climbing, skiing, sailing and so on. One example is the Sonim XP1, which was promoted as the world's toughest phone. This was also sold as the JCB Toughphone. Sonim now offers the XP3 and some more consumer-oriented models such as LM801. Rivals include the Samsung M110 and Samsung B2700 rugged phones: see rugged-phone.co.uk for details.
With phones you can check the IP number. For example, a phone rated IP57 is rated 5 for resistance to dust and 7 for resistance to water. Bigger numbers are better.
