Omnia Passes Unplanned Durability Test
 

I couldn't believe it, and I was yelling at everyone. It was Sunday morning, and I had left my Omnia on the back of my daughter's car to obtain a GPS fix before my morning run (I have GPS Trainer Pro installed - a nifty little program that monitors your running and other stuff). I had then gone back into the house to...ah...work on the crossword in the bathroom for a few minutes. :study:

You can guess what happened next. When I finished, I discovered the car was gone from the driveway. Unbeknownst to me, my daughter was meeting a friend at a neighorhood coffee shop that morning for a visit. My wife called her, but my daughter hadn't seen the phone when she left and didn't know where it was. So I jumped into my own car and started to trace her route.

There it was in a busy intersection about 2 miles from the house, face up in the middle of a lane of oncoming traffic. I was in the left turn lane waiting for the signal, and sat there helplessly as I watched a car run directly over it. I figured it was toast. How many cars had it been?

I made my turn, parked, then ran out and retrieved it. To my astonishment, there wasn't a scratch on it. I had put a silicone skin on the body, so that did offer some protection. And because it was face up, the pavement hadn't marred the screen. S2U2 came up as I punched the button. Everything seemed to be working just fine.

I had dodged a bullet. I began to wonder if it had actually been run over, but when I went to plug in the charger - the plug wouldn't fit. I had to pry the port open a wee bit. The only other issue I've come across was the screen alignment had shifted up a millimeter or so, but that was adjusted back without a hitch. No other issues have come to light.

All I can say is this is one tough little phone. :notworthy:

Wirelessly posted (Omnia1: Opera/9.5 (Microsoft Windows; Windows CE; Opera Mobi/9.5; U; en) VZW:SCH-i910 PPC 240x400)

that is a cool story. ive heard of it being run over,dropped in water and/or beer without a problem. glad to know the run over is true

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u are one lucky son of a gun...:wink:

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Dang, I guess my plan to "accidentally" run over my phone and break it to convince my wife to let me get the Omnia II when it comes out won't work...

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Wow, that's pretty incredible. Congrats!

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pretty sure i would have shed some tears after watching the car run over it.

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Thats cool....

I have dropped my omnia probably a hundred times, and it has survived..a little scratched up.. I thought that was tough!!! But run over... WOW!

Best

Chris

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Lucky lucky lucky! Thats a great story , thanks for sharing but you'll prolly have to put a little disclaimer on your post thats says *don't try this at home* ;)

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I dropped my first Omnia in the ocean. I disassembled it immediately and let everything dry. It actually would power on and the screen would come up like it was OK. The buttons, touch-screen and ringer no longer worked. The Power button actually still worked, though.

What truly surprised me was that I could call and the screen lit up and showed the incoming call. It still worked!!! I just had no way to answer the call. Now that's a rugged phone!

Wirelessly posted (Omnia1: Opera/9.5 (Microsoft Windows; Windows CE; Opera Mobi/9.5; U; en) VZW:SCH-i910 PPC 240x400)

install iconsoft dialer,turn "show on today screen " on. it wont hold a call after that. do that 3 times within 90 days and you might be able to get the O2 under verizons multifru policy