The new JCB phone has taken the mobile market by storm but not many consumers realise that it is in fact the Sonim XP1 Tough Phone which is available in Black from Vodafone. If you like the sound of owning a phone that is dustproof, shatterproof and water resistant but don’t like the bright yellow colour of the JCB Tough Phone then the Sonim XP1 could be for you.
The Sonim XP1 is far more than a simple container for communications service. Sonim mobile is setting the new standard for ruggedized phones. The XP1 headset was built for people who use their mobile phones as tools, not fashion assessories.
The XP1 like the JCB Tough is engineered to be equally at home in a factory and forest, a construction site site or a mountain, on a boat in the middle of the ocean or a dry, sweltering desert. The Sonim XP1 was created to suit people who value solidly contructed tools that are built too last rather than disposable devices.
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March 11, 2008 at 6:08 pm
I have had the sonim XP1 for a day now and initially thought it might be the answer to my problem, my nokia 5140 is dying which had one problem it has no blue tooth.
On a positive note I like the XP1 for its ruggedness and as a builder on paper it ticks most of the boxes, but on unpacking it and charging it up, placing the sim card I started to check out the phone and found the following to be annoying, hopefully you will take this as constructive criticism and not negative feedback.
1. The battery life and signal indicator are very small
2. To scroll through the telephone numbers you can only type in one search letter k for instance, forcing you to scroll through the whole list of k which is also very slow in operation.
3. The keypad lock has no possibility for a security key code and a business phone has usually got a contract so it could be unlimited phoning if it ends in the wrong hands.
4. The phone number search buttons on the left are redundant for me as I have 250 contacts and it forces me to slowly scroll through one by one.
5. The phone has no speaker volume control forcing me to hold the phone away from my ear, the above buttons would have been a great place for this.
6. The telephone ring tone volume cannot be set to be ascending, and at its lowest volume setting when the phone rings the first ring is at full volume and then it lowers the volume to the level I set.
7. To text a message the Xp1 has predictive texting just as any other phone however after typing the word in and changing it to the one I require the word then has to be confirmed by pressing ok every time and then space.
8. The XP1 has no silence function so it forces me to cancel a phone call instead of silencing it and allowing the caller to leave a message so the caller becomes irritated that the call was cancelled and phones again, you could argue that I could have changed the phone mode to silent however that would mean remembering to switch the function on and of during the course of a day and inevitably forgetting the current setting and the point is that spur of the moment silencing is not possible.
For these reasons I am taking the phone back for an exchange, it is pricy for its specification and it has no camera which I don’t mind its just a shame that the money saved on the camera wasn’t spent on some decent programming, remember the forerunner of this phone is the nokia 5140 and 5140i so at the very least the XP1 should have the same performance and menu programming.
June 22, 2008 at 3:06 pm
Thanks for that, was thinking of getting one but not goig to bother now.
June 27, 2008 at 7:52 pm
i am a builder and was looking for the answer to the same problems that we all have, the phones are just not good enough for the trade. it dosent sound like this is the answer. thanks for saving me time and money !!!
July 2, 2008 at 1:32 pm
Ive had 3 of them in 5 months,problems with charging the handset thiugh far play with sonim/push to talk thers been no problems getting a speedy replacement. On the above the keypad lock security code is the one thing I do miss,its a must have and an oversite on the product.
July 5, 2008 at 11:40 am
yes ive had a jcb toughphone for a week and ive had problems with charging it, still the kids like it as it is bright, chunky and cheerful, all in all ok, play.com have them for £99 inc vat and pp
July 10, 2008 at 9:10 am
I was offerdto try the JCB phone before purchasing it. I found that the software was not user friendly like Nokia, or its just me as i am use to Nokia phones. I wanted to replace my 6230i, which is playing up. Having played for 3 hours, i boed it up nad took ot back, as i could not get my head around it.
I had written letter to the comb=pany, but no reply receied as yet ( 5 months ago).
The phone it self is fantastic, it what i want but hte soft ware nedds changing and ifthe company does this, I definatelly havea 2nd go.
The company needs to listen to public if it hast omake the impact in the market.
July 16, 2008 at 5:06 pm
have been looking foa a builders mobile anyone found a decent 1 yet ? dont need camera or blue tooth. do need easy to use solid for tempermental builder !! and not have to use predictive text as takes him ages !! anyone tried the samsung m110 solid i cant find any reviews on it help !!
September 22, 2008 at 12:59 pm
I’m on my 3rd JCB Toughphone due to charging problems. However, my woes have not gone away. Texting is PAINFUL with T9 as (on an irregular, but too often basis) the predicted word can dissapear with ZERO chance of accepting it with a space or puntuation, even though I regard myself as a very rapid texter indeed. Also, there is no user dictionary for names etc.
I’ve spoken on many occasions to JCB phones UK (Push-To-Talk Ltd) and they recognise the texting problems and also the much requested user dictionary omission.
I actually believe that the firmware has actually not been finished! Yes really. There’s some strange areas of the OS that have glaring gaps with unformatted text (instead of check boxes) and even no functionality at all. Take a look at veiwing/editing a profile or the SIM Toolkit…
The actual hardware is very sturdy with a super bright screen, but the software needs a serious amount of work to be considered friendly and complete.
They should have asked just ONE end user to test this phone for a couple of weeks before allowing it to go into full scale production.
October 18, 2008 at 8:32 pm
ma dad had this /jcb version but it it sonim xp1 xactly\ and he took itt bak nd got a nu 1. this is a shit phone as both phones hav hadbluetooth errors and voice echoing wich is spoooky to hear.
am typing this off ma omnia wich is good so long as u rnt a builder …
October 29, 2008 at 4:15 pm
Also the LM801 Tough Phone from Condurro will be available shortly
November 11, 2008 at 4:00 pm
The LM801 Condurro Tough Phone is available now via futuregizmos
January 25, 2009 at 7:26 am
I’ve had jcb toughphone for 6 months now. I got bored with it after just 3 months. Unfortunately i’m tied in for 18 months. I’ve never had any probs with the charging… lasts for 3 days at least on full charge & thats used daily for work.. Texting & talking. Unfortunately…No problems at all with it… & i’m not careful with it. It gets dogs abuse & still keeps coming back for more. If like me you work on building sites most of the time then this IS the dogz bollocks.
February 27, 2009 at 1:20 pm
Can anyone tell me how to just view the phone numbers of the people in my phonebook without pressing the dial key? There are times when I’m sure we all need to pass on a number to someone else, and I can’t see a way of doing this with out dialling the number!!
Any help would be very much appreciated.
Dave.