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Improved Water Resistance of iPhone 6s Attributed to New Gaskets and Seals
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The fact that simple things like the headphone jack isn't sealed, and allows water from gushing in during an accident is just a huge apple mistake. I think my iphone and my wife's 4 or 5 failed because of this...
Apple prides themselves in paying attention to details - this particular one seems to be easy, yet it's still "open" years later...
Apple prides themselves in paying attention to details - this particular one seems to be easy, yet it's still "open" years later...
Why, these people buy warranties or pay for the out of warranty replacement fee. Hell, many credit cards give you 90 days of protection against any damage.
These people do it either to get views = money in their pocket OR like iFixit to offer replacement parts and tutorials for people to buy their OEM replacements. No one really does it just to 'look at it' and lose their money on their device.
What a hilariously ignorant and uneducated comment. Yes, screw learning how something works, I want to control how everyone else uses a device that I think looks good. But it looks good NO ONE should investigate and figure out how it works on the inside. Who cares about that? It works! That's all I need (and want) to know! Why would ANYONE want to learn about how something is designed? Because I don't want to, NO ONE SHOULD.
can you even seal a headphone jack? You can put a cover like the life proof cases, but I think you need to have the contacts free to get a connection and they can't be waterproof I would think.
Anyways, the iPhone 6S seems to handle an hour inside a bowl of water even the headphone jack so unless you guys are going to the pool with them then IDK... Besides the iPhone 4 had many other areas like the old connector where water is more easily accesible to get inside the device.
You should clean your phone more often if it get the toilet that dirty.
Umm that is an interesting idea, but the gasket existed in older iPhones as well, just this time is bigger no? The gasket touches the display?
I guess store repairs won't really be a pain since water resistant is not a feature, they can just replace whatever and leave it less water resistant keeping the old gasket. Kinda like when you go change watch batteries anywhere but the company.
A handful of phones get taken to bits professionally or destroyed in the name of science so thousands of people can see how they look inside, what they're made of, how they're built, how strong or fragile they are and how water-resistant they are.
The teardowns are especially important. They are essentially instructions on how you can fix a phone, so many more devices will be saved by repair because of that one device.
This is valuable information for many and is well worth the collateral damage.
I'm pleased they didn't advertise it, otherwise there'll be ... well ... I guess it'd be Watergate
It just means that this quiet change should reduce out-of-warranty issues without them actively saying it's water-resistant. Say less, deliver more. I like it.
Send it to me, I don't mind cleaning it unless you had a burrito or something that turns logs to chocolate rain....
ewwwww lol
C'mon water resistant iPhone 7!
Hmm, as someone who has never water damaged a phone yet I would prefer an easier battery replacement than sealing everywhere. Each to their own.
I believe it's time they push wireless headphones as a standard. They are doing it with USB-C and the MacBook.
I made the joke to my friends days ago and I thought it was hilarious.
You know someone needs to put Cooks face on this pic for a laugh!
Easily removable battery criticisms are so 2007.
Besides, now that batteries are covered by AppleCare even when outside the 1 year consumable item warranty (great move by Apple, the only company who are now doing this), I don't see an issue. I'd much rather great build quality and carry the risk of possibly having to pay £60 down the line to replace the battery than a flimsy phone.
I made the joke to my friends days ago and I thought it was hilarious.
You know someone needs to put Cooks face on this pic for a laugh!
Cook: I am not a crook
It's got a ring to it
Easily removable battery criticisms are so 2007.
Besides, now that batteries are covered by AppleCare even when outside the 1 year consumable item warranty (great move by Apple, the only company who are now doing this), I don't see an issue. I'd much rather great build quality and carry the risk of possibly having to pay £60 down the line to replace the battery than a flimsy phone.
I like to replace my batteries yearly as performance drops off. Apple will only replace them if they're almost kaput. Still, it is what it is but one of the reasons I don't buy Android phones it that you have to practically destroy them in order to replace the battery. They are disposable items and although iPhones are supposedly a sealed unit, popping the cover off to get to the battery is a relatively simple task.
Think you're absolutely right. Over the next year they'll be able to collect a lot of in the field real-use data from owners which will be useful for developing future generations of phones. They can't advertise it yet, but perhaps in the 7s it'll be ready and they will.
I foresee two realities if Apple advertises a phone as waterproof. 1. Kids like to test waterproof-ness of their cases (which I think is a new form of "risky behavior"), and will do the same with their phones. 2. For laughs, people are still wired to push a fully dressed person in the pool. This happened to a friend when he got his launch-day iPhone 4. This many years into the smartphone era, I still occasionally see excited people threaten to push people in pools.
This is all about Apple's new iPhone upgrade program. Apple knows millions of people will choose this option which includes Applecare and device replacement if the phone is water damaged. With these new water resistant features there will be less (Full Phone Replacements) which will in turn save apple money.
They didn't advertise this because they don't want people trying this at home and damaging applecare protected phones with a feature that isn't 100%
They didn't advertise this because they don't want people trying this at home and damaging applecare protected phones with a feature that isn't 100%