Did you hear about the Samsung Galaxy S5 and how it’s rugged? Archos has one of those too â€" the Quenchua with an IP54 rating. Watch a video of Archo’s CEO nonchalantly drop it on the floor and dunk it in a glass of water.
In case you’re not familiar with the IP ratings, the second digit indicates water resistance and 4 means the device can resist splashes of water, not submersion.
Even the official site for the Quenchua reads “It is designed to withstand splattering with water” (or they changed it after the fact). Anyway, the CEO didn’t know about IP ratings and things went as can be expected:
Le directeur d’Archos casse un smartphone censé… by Spi0n
That didn’t go nearly as well as putting the Moto G in water (a phone with no official water-resistance rating).
The Archos CEO must be feeling pretty bad right now (and some employee is getting the axe), but it’s possible one of the port flaps was open after the drop causing the issue. This sort of mishap can happen to the best of them:
Anyway, here’s a bit more about the phone â€" the Archos Quenchua has a 5″ WVGA display, Snapdragon S4 8225Q chipset (quad-core 1.2GHz Cortex-A5), 5MP / 720p camera a beefy 3,500mAh battery and a barometer for accurate height readings. It runs Android 4.1 Jelly Bean and has an IP54 rating.
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