The Tough Toshiba Phone (revisited)

This phone has been lying under my desk for years and now, the moment has arrived. I first got it years ago and never had the chance to check it thoroughly. Why did I want this phone? Because it survived a fire. And best of all, it still works!

As my technical room is now ready, what better excuse than to get it out and use it? Of course, I am not going to use the phone in the normal way but to let it sit upright as its design allows you to wall mount the phone by just twisting the base.

After four years, the phone still looks good. Much
better than the current 2008 design which has a
silver shade on the LCD area.

But the plastic cover (on the right) has to be taken
out since it was so warped, its making some of the
buttons there stuck. But thank goodness the LCD
screen still works. Oh, note the top four buttons

The buttons here are OK, I was tempted to turn some
of them in different angles but then, it would make the
phone look stupid this way. I mean, it has survived a
fire but at least it still look dignified and not mental.

The fire was quite big, I presume because most of the
ash did go into the circuit board but I am not going to
clean it, as this would be proof of its toughness.

Obviously, I suspect that the speaker grill is the
main entry point for the ash as the other side is
looked quite clogged up.

I had to sand the top four buttons in such a way
that the warped top is not taken off. These are
the main reason why the phone was not working
as they were so warped, they got stuck and so,
this stopped the phone from recognising other
button presses.