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The Company: JCB is one of the world's top three manufacturers of construction equipment. The company employs over 8,000 people on 4 continents and sells our products in 150 countries through 1,300 dealer locations. Throughout our 62 year history, we have always invested heavily in research and development, keeping JCB at the cutting edge of innovation. Today, JCB has some of the finest engineering facilities across the globe, boasts a range of more than 220 machines and maintains a reputation for unrivalled customer service.
The JCB TOUGHPHONE was developed in partnership with Sonim Technologies, a privately-held San Mateo-based company with offices in London and Bangalore. Sonim engineers the XP1, the world's only GSM mobile handsets ruggedized to withstand extreme conditions indoors and out. Sonim Technologies also develops software solutions that provide enterprise services for its ruggedized phones.
Corporate Headquarters: JCB World Headquarters, Rocester, Staffordshire, ST14 5JP, Telephone:+44(0) 1889 590312 J C Bamford Excavators Limited, Registered No. 0561597
Sonim Technologies, 1875 S. Grant Street, Suite 620,San Mateo, CA 94402, United States. Telephone: +1.650.378.8100, info@sonimtech.com
The JCB TOUGHPHONE: The JCB TOUGHPHONE is the only ruggedized GSM phone certified (IP-54) to withstand damage from water drops and dirt/dust. The JCB TOUGHPHONE can be dropped from 1.5m without damage and can be used in very cold (-30 C) and very hot temperatures (+70 C). The JCB TOUGHPHONE meets military specification requirements.
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JCB TOUGHPHONE Target Market: We're focused on providing a ruggedized phone to people who require communications equipment they can depend on in harsh climatic conditions or less than pristine indoor environments. The JCB TOUGHPHONE is ideal for people who work outdoors such as construction workers, lorry drivers, farmers and foremen or indoors in warehouses and factories. Equally, the JCB TOUGHPHONE is perfect for anyone with an active lifestyle who requires a mobile phone that can take a few knocks, people who engage in sports such as skiing, boating, hiking, skateboarding, snowboarding, and etc.
IP-Certification: The IP Code – or "International Protection Rating" -- is a global standard that specifies the level of protection that a specific electrical appliance provides against the intrusion of solid objects such as dust, falls and vibration, and water. The numerals that follow the letters IP in a product's code (such as the JCB TOUGHPHONE IP-54 rating) define the level of protection a device has been certified to provide. The first numeral indicates resistance to dust and dirt (solids) the second resistance to liquids. For more information, please see The International Electrotechnical Commission's website. The IEC is an organisation that prepares and publishes international standards for all electrical, electronic and related technologies.
The OMA PoC 1.0 standard: The Open Mobile Alliance's (OMA) push-to-talk over cellular (PoC) specification ensures interoperability between push-to-talk services provided by different network operators, as well as other important features. You can find out more at The Open Mobile Alliance. JCB TOUGHPHONE is fully in compliance with 3GPP/3GPP2/IETF/OMA PoC 1.0 standards.
Green Initiatives: By building phones that are constructed to last, we hope we are helping to ensure that fewer phones end up in landfills. We are in compliance with technology waste and recycling legislation in the U.K.
Blub: T3 reviews the JCB ToughPhone.
NOTES TO EDITORS
JCB Overview
JCB has 17 plants on four continents: 10 in the UK, three in India and others in the USA, China, Germany and Brazil and employs more than 8,000 people.
Celebrating its 60th anniversary in 2005, JCB is privately-owned by the Bamford family & the Chairman,Sir Anthony Bamford, is son of the company's late founder, Joseph CyrilBamford.
The company manufactures 279 different machines for the construction, industrial, agricultural, compaction and groundcare sectors.
JCB has won more than 70 major awards for engineering excellence, exports, design, marketing, management and for its care for the environment. Among them are 21 Queen's Awards for Technology and Export Achievement, the latest being a Queen's Award for Enterprise in the International Trade category in 2006 for JCB Compact Products, JCB's Loadall Business Unit and Wrexham-based International Transmissions Ltd, the sales arm of JCB Transmissions.
Data Select Overview
Data Select is one of the UK's leading distributors of mobile phones and accessories. Part of The Phones International Group, Data Select is owned by Peter Jones of BBC TV's Dragons' Den fame.
Since its formation in 1998, Data Select has consistently grown each year. The company has distribution agreements with all major UK manufacturers including Nokia, Sony Ericsson and Samsung and airtime distribution agreements with all networks.
Data Select supplies to a range of customers including specialist retailers including Phones 4u and Carphone Warehouse and non-specialist retailers including Tesco and Argos.
About Sonim Technologies, Inc.
Sonim Technologies enables today's mobile data networks to deliver high-performance VolP applications and services. Sonim's end-to-end standards-based solutions include server, client and handset offerings and provide real-time wireless services including OMA-PoC 1.0 standard push-to-talk, combining the flexibility of mobile messaging with the ease-of-use of voice.
Sonim is headquartered in San Mateo, California, with offices in India, the United Kingdom, Sweden and Spain.
Peter Jones
The Dragon's Den star is one of the UK's best known entrepreneurs. His business interests range from telecoms, leisure, publishing as well as TV and media. Peter has won many national awards, including Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year in 2001. Now in his early forties, Peter is considered to be one of the UK's leading young businessmen.
PETER JONES ATTEMPTS RECORD FOR WORLD'S TOUGHEST PHONE
Dragon's Den entrepreneur launches the new JCB TOUGHPONETM by putting it through its paces at the JCB Arena and attempts to set the world record for the planet's most indestructible mobile.
JCB, the world's third largest construction equipment manufacturer, has partnered with Peter Jones' mobile distributor Data Select and manufacturer Sonim to launch the JCB TOUGHPHONETM, the world's most resilient mobile.
Designed to withstand the harshest punishment, the JCB TOUGHPHONETM can be dropped, shocked, splashed and covered in dust without missing a call. Operating at temperatures from -20c to +60c the phone comes with a three-year warranty making it the longest lasting phone available.
The world record attempt will see the JCB TOUGHPHONETM put to the test against a series of escalating challenges to prove the mobile's claims of being tougher than any other phone available. It will be raised and dropped by the classic JCB 3CX from a height of 10 feet, sprayed with water from a high velocity jet, placed in a cement mixer of sand and the run over by Jo Bamford in a JCB Groundhog.
Designed with builders, plumbers, construction workers and tradesmen in mind, the phone will be appreciated by anyone that has watched their all-singing, all-dancing handset shatter on impact with the ground. However, this no-nonsense phone doesn't compromise on feature and includes BluetoothTM, Push to Talk, tri-band and built-in dual speakers - which ensure they can be heard, even over a JCB engine!
George McPherson, Chief Executive of Data Select comments: "The market has been demanding a no-nonsense mobile that can handle the knocks of an active lifestyle as well as dealing with the rigours of life on a building site. The JCB TOUGHPHONETM is the answer; it's tough, easy to use and packed with modern technology. Just like a JCB!"
Dragon's Den entrepreneur launches the new JCB TOUGHPONETM by putting it through its paces at the JCB Arena and attempts to set the world record for the planet's most indestructible mobile.
JCB, the world's third largest construction equipment manufacturer, has partnered with Peter Jones' mobile distributor Data Select and manufacturer Sonim to launch the JCB TOUGHPHONETM, the world's most resilient mobile.
Designed to withstand the harshest punishment, the JCB TOUGHPHONETM can be dropped, shocked, splashed and covered in dust without missing a call. Operating at temperatures from -20c to +60c the phone comes with a three-year warranty making it the longest lasting phone available.
The world record attempt will see the JCB TOUGHPHONETM put to the test against a series of escalating challenges to prove the mobile's claims of being tougher than any other phone available. It will be raised and dropped by the classic JCB 3CX from a height of 10 feet, sprayed with water from a high velocity jet, placed in a cement mixer of sand and the run over by Jo Bamford in a JCB Groundhog.
Designed with builders, plumbers, construction workers and tradesmen in mind, the phone will be appreciated by anyone that has watched their all-singing, all-dancing handset shatter on impact with the ground. However, this no-nonsense phone doesn't compromise on feature and includes BluetoothTM, Push to Talk, tri-band and built-in dual speakers - which ensure they can be heard, even over a JCB engine!
George McPherson, Chief Executive of Data Select comments: "The market has been demanding a no-nonsense mobile that can handle the knocks of an active lifestyle as well as dealing with the rigours of life on a building site. The JCB TOUGHPHONETM is the answer; it's tough, easy to use and packed with modern technology. Just like a JCB!"
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