Sonim Land Rover S1 – Landrover S1 Review – Land Rover Phone Review
The Sonim Landrover S1 is a phone built with durability as its main design feature. The phone can withstand an inordinate amount of punishment and still come back for more. This is its main point of interest for its target market. The phone has limited functionality in the form of cameras and similar features that serve no purpose in the conditions the phone tends to find itself in.
One integral feature is the phones 2 mega pixel camera which is suitable to take effective images but not at the best resolution available. However for its purpose the phones camera delivers functional image taking. The Land Rover S1 comes with a display screen which is 1.77 inches in size. The screen displays 65,000 colours and operates at 176 x 220 pixels.
Sonim S1 - Land Rover S1 Phone
Water resistance is an integral feature within the Land Rover phone and it surpasses any other phone by providing the ability to withstand being submerged for a period of 30 minutes at a depth of 1 metre. As part of its unique and unrivalled IP67 certification the phone also provides the element of shock resistance. This means the phone can be dropped onto concrete from a height of 2 metres and function. To complete the durability element of the phone, the handset offers dust and scratch resistance.
The Sonim Landrover S1′s outstanding features include the ability of over 1500 hours standby and over 18 hours of talk time which can be an essential part of the make up of this phone which is useful and largely underestimated.
The integrated GPS is extremely useful feature which has been added after the inception of the Enduro series. Blue tooth and miniUSB offer several forms of connectivity. A built in microSD provides the means to expand the memory up to 2 Gb which is sufficient for most needs.
With a built in torch for illumination as well as an organiser to keep track of vital information and appointments, the phones comprehensive additional features make sense. Add to this the ability to record oral notes with the useful voice memo facility and the list is complete.
The Sonim Landrover S1 is a phone which offers a phone which will not baulk at being thrown around. It will not whimper at being dropped or submerged. In fact it will outlast most phones if not all and it will do that with a style and ruggedness that is beyond compare.
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August 20th, 2009 at 1:04 am
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September 4th, 2009 at 11:42 am
Land Rover Mobile Phone??!!! Don’t make me laugh – see the repsonse from Sonim:
We are sorry to inform that Phone book of Sonim XP3 Quest cannot be synchronized
with the Freelander car kit as handset does not support ‘Phone book Access
Bluetooth profile’.
So basically you cannot use your Land Rover mobile in your Land Rover!!
Rubbish!
September 5th, 2009 at 8:34 pm
I have one and its the most basic phone I have ever had the misfortune of owning. Rugged yes. Maybe indistructable but a heap of shit software wise bit like stepping back 15 years. Its a noddy phone the techno boys who have put this together were probably either idiots stuck in time or little kids who only know the basics.
October 4th, 2009 at 1:36 pm
Thanks fo the info Pete/Jayne, thats saved me a few bob. I was just about buy one online, I wont bother now.
October 28th, 2009 at 4:18 pm
I’ve owned one for a few months, and if you’re worried about lack of software, lack of 12 Megapixel camera, and inability to sync it with your car, then you’re not hardcore enough to need a phone like this!
This phone is for us who live on rockfaces, mountain tops, and beaches, who get around by kayak, quad bikes, or driving a proper Landy, not a ponced up Chelsea Tractor.
Go get an iPhone, and leave this for the big boys!
November 7th, 2009 at 9:59 pm
Pete & Oliver,
Believe it or not there are many people out there who have been craving for SIMPLE phones!
WHY?
BECAUSE WE BELIEVE PHONES SHOULD BE FUNCTIONAL, NOT GIMMICKS OR TOYS LIKE THE IPHONE.
Sure, ther iphone has some useful and nice features but I DO NOT WANT TO WASTE MY BATTERY LIFE ON STUFF NOT CRITICAL TO MY DAILY requirements.
I buy a phone to communicate and I would like it to allow me to communicate in a dependable and reliable way
What use is the iphone if I am away from electricity for days (and I often am) and the phone dies after a day.
I have been using a nokia 6310i for years and have never changed it because I can use the phone for as much as I want and not need to recharge it for NINE DAYS! Useful when you are away from home and have forgotten your charger or when you have SUCH a a hectic and manic life you forget or are unable to charge your phone every single night.
I have been waiting for a basic and dependable phone such as this for years.
This phone was meant to appeal to the likes of Jamie and I. There are the iphone for the rest where vanity might be more important.
ALSO, if I want to listen to music, I will use a CD player where the quality is so much better. I would never want listen through my phone nor would I ever use my phone to take pictures becasue I am a conoseur of quality and would use my digital SLR instead.
I have never understood people like yoursleves where quality is so readily compromised.
December 4th, 2009 at 11:53 am
im a defender driver and this is what ive been looking for in a mobile phone for years, i agree with jamie and iqbal.
December 8th, 2009 at 10:49 pm
hi, i’m a disco driver and bought the land rover s1 phone in black but had to change it to orange cos i couldnt find it on these dark nights when ever i dropped it, have to thank place i got it from as they swapped foc, was online place enduromobile, decent people
December 13th, 2009 at 7:57 pm
Well, I think the phone is fit for purpose, surprised they took the risk and called it a “Land rover”, probably the most unreliable 4×4 on the road!
Maybe the idea that landy owners spend alot of their time on their backs under the cars, means the phone in the pocket needs to be tough.
December 27th, 2009 at 9:53 pm
Have one of these also. It is my second one, the first was replaced FOC because of a voicemail icon gremlin. Second one is here and low and behold there appears to be many gremlins with it also. Keeps turning itself off and can’t be turned back on with out removing the battery (screwdriver required). texting is a nightmare – basic T9 dict. I am a spark and went through 3 Nokias in 2 months due to dust and physical abuse. the Sonim certainly comes in a goo rugged case buts whats inside it isn’t actually that good. The battery life advertised is huge. Mine has to be charged every day even with minimal useage. Buy an Iphone with insurance. Iqbal “quality is so readily compromised” if that is your snotty take on people looking for a good value product then stay away from this phone.
December 28th, 2009 at 4:13 pm
hi i have had my phone for a few months now and still cant get my numbers onto it off a nokia 5500 sport now thats a good phone any ideas on getting numbers accross i have about 450 todo
cheers
skelly
December 28th, 2009 at 11:02 pm
How can Landrover sponsor and lend their name to a ‘phone which will not provide full function in a Landrover Freelander ?
January 8th, 2010 at 5:48 am
crap phone
May 4th, 2010 at 6:33 pm
Im not convinced TBH but interesting comments.
June 24th, 2010 at 4:48 pm
I bought a Sonim S1 Land Rover phone. Battery lasts only three hours stand-by!!!! I activated the three years warranty, but nobody tells me how to use it! I sent many e-mails to Sonim customers support: they don’t even answer!!!! Sonim S1 Land Rover phone is a good way to loose lot of money! I’ll tell you if I’ll be able to have my money back and if I’ll be able to get free from this terrible, useless, haevy telephone!
September 7th, 2010 at 8:17 pm
ive had the landy phone for a week now and i love it. it is just wat i wanted and the battery has lasted me a week and i have used it every day playing music when i work so i think it is a good phone. ( my sis has the iphone 4 i played on it and the battery went dead after an hour use in my opinion i dnt relly like it tbh )
December 3rd, 2010 at 7:00 pm
What are you techno guys(nerds) doing with a Rugged phone like this anyway,…..leave this for the men who can handle it! I’m a policeman and this phone is great for my rough and tumble work!
January 22nd, 2011 at 12:45 pm
Got one of these on contract, figured it would go with my lifestyle (I drive a 1984 Defender) and for when I’m working in the forest felling trees etc. So I’m right in the target audience. It has definitely stood up to being bashed, had things dropped on it and so on, which was how my previous phones usually died, but as people have said above, the battery NEVER had anything beyond 24 hours standby even from brand new – where they got that claim of hundreds and hundreds of hours is anyones guess. The software crashes every so often and the only way to get access is to remove the battery and start again. Every now and then it just freezes up. Particularly if you go from one function to another immediately, it likes a couple of seconds to sort itself out otherwise if you press the next button immediately it can just take the huff and locks you out until you remove & replace the battery! Software is buggy – the GPS facility NEVER worked from day 1, and at the moment, I have to scroll through all my contacts as it won’t go direct by pressing the relevent letter key like it used to. It also keep sounding the alarm even if you’ve woken up and cancelled it, it just goes off again 5 minutes later until you go into the menu and turn it off completely – so currently I can’t set it, cancel ti when it wakes me up and leave it for next day. I’ve got to go right back in and reset the alarm – I’m amazed Land Rover allowed thier name to be put to this thing! If I’d paid the prices I’ve seen this advertised for I’d have sent it back as unfit for purpose.
February 12th, 2011 at 9:08 am
Hi everyone i just had to reply to these comments on the land rover phone, i got one because a memeber of the poblic recomended it to me i am a cabinet maker in a dusty atmosphere. it needs to be tough to live in my pocket all day. i use it to maked a couple of calls a day check my e mails and surf the net every day as well as play the radio on it doing all this i only have to charge it every 3-4 weeks!. If the gps is turned on it does last alot less but i dont use gps. The only thing i cant do is play my music files, i have put music files on the phone in sounds on the sd card but it will only play one at a time,
December 18th, 2011 at 1:44 am
ok after reading all these anyone got recomendations of another tough phone thanks all