Videos: BlackBerry Durability Testing – Watch Them Get Drowned, Dropped & Crushed

By Mauricio

Do you ever wonder how your BlackBerry smartphone’s durability is tested? RIM today posted a few videos showing what they do to make sure BlackBerry devices are strong enough to deal with real-world mishaps. From the Inside BlackBerry Blog:

Today, I’m going to give you an inside look at the testing we do during the development of your BlackBerry® smartphone to help ensure it lives up to the high standards that BlackBerry is known for. Our team works to make sure that your BlackBerry smartphone is both durable and reliable – which basically means we try to break them so that you, #TeamBlackBerry, would be hard pressed to do the same. =D

Your BlackBerry smartphone is your connection to your friends and family. It is your lifeline, and we want it to always stay in operating condition so that you can stay in contact with the important people in your life. So when you accidentally drop your BlackBerry smartphone, or sit on it, or spill your morning coffee on it, we want it to keep working.

So how do we work to ensure that your BlackBerry smartphone will keep working? Well, we drop them, bend them, shock them, soak them and zap them…a lot.

The horror! The following videos are not for the feint of heart .

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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mntnJ6Fna3E&hd=1[/youtube]

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