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iPhone 7 and 7 Plus Survive Hot Coffee, Soda, and the Ocean in New Videos
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Yeah if it were me, I'd rinse everything out/off with clean water after being exposed to ocean water. That stuff can be quite potent over time.
Unlikely that anyone besides you will take it as serious as you obviously did...
You give them too much credit. Give it 2 years. Next year they'll try to make a funny with demonstrating how it works in their painfully awkward press conference -- you know they can't resist.
I'm actually kinda impressed with the iFixit test. Theoretically you could drop your phone into the sink or toilet, pass out drunk for a while, and wake up to find a still-operable phone?
To be fair, Apple wasn't the first to remove the headphone port.
The official test is 1m depth for 30 minutes. In that test you move the phone very, very carefully. The 30 minutes is to make sure that you don't have seals that dissolve slowly, and that you don't have really tiny leaks that let enough water through in 30 minutes.Didn't you just contradict yourself in THE SAME SENTENCE? I wouldn't call a half hour under a meter of water "quick, accidental submersion"!
A "quick, accidental submersion" can create a lot more pressure. Say you drop the phone into water. It hits the water at high speed. That may create more instant damage at the moment when it hits than sinking the phone very carefully.
Why? Why? Why? As u pointed at the beginning of this article, there is people waiting for those phones and here we go another phone destroyed to show what? The insides that nobody will ever see. Please stop destroying phones and instead give them away to your fan base and readers, I am pretty sure that they will appreciate them very much
Remember the ones for game consoles? Where the person would run out the store and right there, in front of all the people still in line for the same console (and probably not going to get it due to limited supply), would smash it on the front steps of the building? Usually to make some statement about material consumption or video games in general.
Not at all, my comments wasn't meant to be serious more tongue in cheek, as in why am I watching this phone in a fish tank for so long (a full hour now for me now). ;P
There was a guy in Australia who got filmed because he might have been the first one to get one new iPhone model; he unwrapped it in front of the camera _and dropped it by accident_.
Looks like it will die from a dead battery before it dies from water intrusion. Quite impressive, even with the shallow depth.
This is like watching the live stream of the fallen ranger on "Silicon Valley". I hear it's very popular in the Philippines.
Too bad the dongle isn't waterproof. I've been listening to my Beats in the shower through my Zune recently.
Most people don't know this, but James Cameron actually brought a Zune with him on his voyage to the Challenger Deep. It even maintained power on a single battery charge as he trekked through the depths for three days straight. His wet suit didn't even have pockets, so he had to store the device in a makeshift seaweed pouch backpack.
Most people don't know this, but James Cameron actually brought a Zune with him on his voyage to the Challenger Deep. It even maintained power on a single battery charge as he trekked through the depths for three days straight. His wet suit didn't even have pockets, so he had to store the device in a makeshift seaweed pouch backpack.
As I was waiting at the airport last Sunday, I saw the FAA Warning at the gate about the Note 7. What will the owners do during a long flight? I guess those were the people at the airport bookstore...the main thing that the battery did not explode
No I shan't. But I'm thinking theoretically. Could it be a valid replacement for water proof point n shoots?
Exactly while I am not happy about it - next year, they will be a flood of phones without headjacks - including S8
https://9to5google.com/2016/09/14/g...no-headphone-jack-early-launch-and-codenames/
Underestimating. I also wonder if Apple may subsidize some of these tests as part of a guerrilla marketing effort. Maybe that's just paranoia?
Anyways, LOL @ all the jealousy in so many comments. You guys really can't wait a week or two to get an iPhone? Or maybe all of you are currently without any smartphone at all?
For the record, with any new model release manufacturing bugs are inevitable, but Apple has some of the best quality control in the industry. All the iPhones returned for defects or failures are sent to swift response engineering teams for rapid analysis, and these teams then work directly with production engineers to implement fixes into the production lines in real time. The logistics are flat-out incredible, or as Tim Cook would say, "amazing" or even "magical".
Thus if you wait until late November or December to buy an iPhone your chances of getting a perfect unit rise dramatically. Plus there is a better selection of cases, and case manufacturers often have fit issues with early production cases, so there's yet another reason to wait.