If ever a meteorite smashed into the earth bringing about our untimely end, it’s well noted that the only thing that would survive the apocalypse would be cockroaches and the Nokia 5210. Now although the 5210 is a sturdy device, it’s hardly the most advanced.

It’s reassuring to know that smartphone manufacturers have been working on handsets that don't instantly shatter into a million pieces when they topple off a table the week after you got them. Because, like a piece of toast, your phone is guaranteed to always land face down.

The major manufacturers have now woken up to the fact that humans are a clumsy species, who like to drop stuff now and then. These phones won't survive the previously mentioned armageddon, but they'll take a knock or two, with the best possible odds of making it to the end of a contract intact.