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Mobile phone you can use in the shower

Discussion in 'Wireless News' started by charlyee, Jan 2, 2008.

  1. charlyee

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    Mobile phone you can use in the shower

    Soon there really will be no escape from mobile phones. They can be used on the world's highest mountains, on planes and even underground, but phone manufacturers now want customers to use their products underwater.

    Electronics companies plan to use military technology, developed to protect soldiers from chemical attack, to make mobile telephones and other equipment waterproof.

    Phones treated with the coating will be protected from moisture, rain and accidental immersion, according to the experts behind the technology. Tests have shown that treated phones can be used in wet environments without damage.

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    Would have helped my friend who knocked his home cordless and Verizon Cell phone in his pool. Both were goners.
     
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  3. charlyee

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    I dropped my 6131 in a deep melting snowpile New Years Eve, I literally had to dig it out. It wasn't a goner but it was touch & go for a while. I had it powered off, the SIM & the battery out until last night.
     
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    My sister once dropped her old Nokia (One of the first GSM ones Cingular released) in the toilet. Suprisingly it actually worked better afterwards because before it was hard to hear her, afterwards she was clear.

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    I wonder how many water damage insurance claims there are every year for cell phones. It has to be in the tens of millions.
     
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    I guess you shouldn't be drinking and calling with a cell phone huh? Nokia's are usually pretty good at dealing with something like this, I had one that fell into a puddle at a fire scene where the hose was leaking onto it as well, 3 days later it was fine (this was an old TDMA phone)
     
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    Lol, I was not on the phone, just getting it out of the car & had a handful of other stuff. This is my first in coming close to water damage so I was pretty concerned.

    PS: I don't think I could ever drink enough to stand in snow in 15 degrees and talk on the phone. :p
     
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    At least yours didn't fall in the toilet. I called her phone the poo phone. Interestingly enough the phone was a goldish brown. There were a few times where she would try to hand me her phone and say "Mom wants to talk to you" I would always just ask where Mom was and called her on my cell that was not tainted with fecal matter.

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    This is too hilarious!!!! The 'poo phone'?!?

    I gave my friend a Nokia 5190 back in the day and she left the phone in the rain overnight. Surprisingly, the phone held up after drying the phone out for 1 or 2 days!
     
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    Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows CE; IEMobile 7.6) UP.Link/6.3.1.17.0)

    I am seeing a trend in here, so I should be glad I dropped my Nokia in the snow puddle & not my Treo ? :D
     
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    My dad dropped his Treo 650 in a cup of coffee. It still worked afterwards, but it still has coffee in between the layers of the screen.

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    Really? :confused: I would have thought the phone would sound like s**t after falling in the toilet :p:D
     
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    You can take the battery out and put the phone on the oven on low and it will work; we have done it twice. :cool:
     
  14. M in LA

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    I bet the poo-colored Zune goes perfectly with it...;)

    Regarding the topic of the thread, I could live without a phone in the shower. Nothing could be worse than getting shampoo in your eyes during a call...
     
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    That would be the least of my problems,maybe shave cream but certainly not shampoo.:D
     
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    Joe, I should have clarified that this is for those of us with hair...;)

    But I hear you...Shaving cream would be a mess too!:D
     
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    No, it actually worked better... We were all suprised, because when she called before dropping it in the toilet it was always hard to hear her.

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    Fortunately my Zune is black. I could have gotten a brown one for $10 less, but I wanted the black one.

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