Sonim brings a trio of rugged devices to CTIA E&A 2011, we go hands-on (video)

Sonim doesn’t crank out smartphones. It’s too busy flooding the earth with uber-rugged featurephones that may almost definitely withstand a precise flood, and it’s darn happy with that fact. That is the impression we got, a minimum of, after visiting the company’s booth at this week’s CTIA Enterprise & Applications. We had the chance to mess around with Sonim’s three new devices : the XP1301 Core NFC, XP3340 Sentinel and XP1330 Core PTT. Announced on Monday, the 1st two phones are already available within the US while the third is concentrated squarely at Latin America over the subsequent two months. Quite frankly, the hot GSM / EDGE lineup looks so similar that it might be incredibly easy to forget which one was which — other than having an appearance not unlike a tank, all three devices appear to come from the identical mold. As similar as they’re, every one has its own specialty: the XP1301 offers a Near-Field Communication tag reader, the XP1330 takes good thing about Push to speak and the XP3340 Sentinel throws in a customizable man-down sensor that triggers an emergency alarm when something is awry. But we’ll let you know what won’t require emergency assistance — viewing the galleries and videos below.

Zachary Lutz contributed to this hands-on.

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This post is tagged: emergency alarm, emergency assistance, enterprise applications, field communication, Latin America