Lumia 900 Hammer Test: Video Shows Gorilla Glass On Nokia Phone Is Sturdy Indeed [WATCH]

Did you get hammered this weekend? Well, so did the Nokia Lumia 900, and it probably came out feeling much better than you did afterward.

Engineers at Nokia labs wanted to show off the sturdiness of the Gorilla Glass on the front of the Nokia Lumia 900, so they did what anyone would do: They filmed a video of themselves attempting to hammer nails into the phone's screen, and then used the phone itself to drive a nail into a plank of wood. Watch below to see how the Lumia 900 fared after its meeting with Mr. Hammer:

Nokia smartphones have long been thought of as durable -- an Internet meme called the "Indestructible Nokia 3310" even sprang up depicting the old-school Nokia handset as an otherworldly force of unbreakability:

Clearly, Nokia wants that aura of indestructibility to transfer over from its 3310 to its new Lumia 900. Along with this video, the struggling Finnish phone maker has also boasted of its Lumia 900's "industrial design" in advertisements around the web. That the iPhone's all-glass design is so prone to cracks is probably driving some of these advertisements.

Though nobody is questioning the physical strength of the Lumia 900, the strength of the sales of the Lumia 900 remains to be seen. The Lumia line, with the Windows Phone operating system, is thought to be the best hope of both Nokia and Microsoft to re-assert themselves in the cellular space. Early signs for Nokia have been mixed; we should get a clearer picture of how the Lumia 900, which launched on AT&T in early April, is selling in the coming months.

Until then, if the Lumia 900 doesn't prove popular as a smartphone, perhaps it will find a second life as a sledgehammer or mallet.

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Comments

[someperson]

05:49 PM on 06/16/2012

Nokia is toast unless they can put out a more stunning phone. Lumias are OK, but they could benefit from a few things such as microSD support, best battery life of any phone, or the best camera of any smartphone. Or something!!

[authorized-user]

05:24 PM on 05/22/2012

The real beating is given to the owner who pays too much for the phone, the plan, and loses his privacy while the OS transmits all of his personal data.

[smrtrvd]

10:35 AM on 05/22/2012

Nokia Lumia 900 is the bets smartphone in the market. At $99, it is a real bargain. I am using it for about two months and I can tell you it beats iPhone every category. I love the tiled display and it is super fast.

[tcpcat]

06:14 AM on 05/22/2012

iphone hit ground ,CRACK! Nokia Hit ground Nothing

[Cab305]

04:00 AM on 05/22/2012

That's a mallet nerd!

[ReignSupreme]

01:04 AM on 05/22/2012

Use a real hammer.

[mistergg69]

08:52 PM on 05/21/2012

I like my nokia 900

[Neitherpartieslapdog]

05:56 PM on 05/21/2012

I used to own a nokia 3310. Very durable phone. My GZ Boulder has photos on it I took under water in the gulf of Mexico. The user manual on the GZ says to clean it under a faucet.

[T Trump]

05:54 PM on 05/21/2012

Beat the crap out of it? Just give it a laxative.

[kcwookie]

05:28 PM on 05/21/2012

Let me have a go at it.

[katatonic]

05:11 PM on 05/21/2012

Nokia is king.

[philp71]

02:54 AM on 05/22/2012

LMAO when the late 90's lol

[BuckyJamesDio]

04:49 PM on 05/21/2012

Sure, it can withstand abuse from an adult. Give the thing to a teenager and THEN see what happens.

[ictia al]

05:33 PM on 05/21/2012

already did. iphone broke twice -- no, didn't put a massive ugly case around it so it no longer looked like an iphone, got lumia 900 replacement ... didn't break yet, had a few drops "without" case that would have cracked an iphone.

[philp71]

02:55 AM on 05/22/2012

i drop my iphone all the time and not a scratch with out a case whats your point again

[haggis MacBagpipe]

04:25 PM on 05/21/2012

Big deal...I can do that with my head!

[BeePeeToo]

04:23 PM on 05/21/2012

But 'Will It Blend?' That's the true test of a smartphone.

[Rich Phitzwell]

03:23 PM on 05/21/2012

meh, hit it in the right place and it will break. Ive had my smart phone drop from 30 foot up and nothing happened, same phone dropped from 2 foot and hit the corner just right even with gorilla glass and yup broke.

[Phlan]

03:32 PM on 05/21/2012

Prove it

[Rich Phitzwell]

05:19 PM on 05/21/2012

well since they seem to like to block links. do a simple search for broken gorilla glass. plenty of examples. not raging on corning or anything but a small drop with it hitting at the right angle usually on a corner will break it. drop a hammer on it and it will probably break as well. Dont get me wrong, like I stated I have dropped it from heights and it always survived but its not unbreakable

[Max Black]

10:51 PM on 05/21/2012

Gorilla Glass has a known weakness that it will shatter when hit on the side.