Telstra’s Got A Foam Padded Room For Testing Smartphones Too

Remember those photos from Apple showing their amazing foam padded reception testing rooms? Well, Telstra’s got one of their own, plus a guy called Warwick who tests every single Telstra handset’s antenna performance.

The video was published by Telstra a few weeks ago in the days before the iPhone 4 launch, but it’s still worth watching for an insight not only into what handsets are worthy of a “Blue Tick”, but how the testing on all mobile phones is done. Oh, and the fact that Warwick has tested every single phone on Telstra over the past 15 years – so if there hasn’t been a new phone on Next G for a while, we now know who to blame…

[Telstra Exchange]