I got a 500, 300, and a few 200g saltwater fish tanks @ my crib. Drop your phone in there for a minute, kiss your iPhone good bye, irregardless how much you clean it. You try reaching down to the bottom of a 500g tank and see how fast you get yours out. Lol
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iPhone 7 and 7 Plus Survive Hot Coffee, Soda, and the Ocean in New Videos
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That's why I found it ironic that people are so OCD with the phone worrying about scratches but then might plan to go to the ocean with it. You want a nice design, you still cover it up with a case. You want water-resistance, you deep it in salt water which is harsh. You defeat the purpose each time.
A $40 Kyocera Hydro Air can do all that stuff like being frozen for hours and dipped in soda. That's the type of phone who bring to go to the beach and not worrying about being OCD if it got wet or damaged since it is only $40. Not $650-$950 that breeds OCD tendencies.
A $40 Kyocera Hydro Air can do all that stuff like being frozen for hours and dipped in soda. That's the type of phone who bring to go to the beach and not worrying about being OCD if it got wet or damaged since it is only $40. Not $650-$950 that breeds OCD tendencies.
What a major waste of resources.
Apple executives don't have a problem with these sorts of antics. All they do is look at the successfully sold ledgers. Money is money.
How were they able to charge underwater ? 7hrs at the moment lol
Oh just saw this:
iFixit Video
We covered the tip of the plug in petroleum jelly—then inserted it into the port.
Lines are down this year because Apple announced that many models were sold out, and there was no stock of all 7+ models, or jet black 7" models in the stores at all. SO, SURE LINES WERE DOWN.
They were asking for phone numbers for people who were attempting to reserve a phone. For many of those who were just there to scalp the phones for sale overseas, it stopped them in their tracks.
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I had a black iPhone coming to my house but then I realized I would never be satisfied with a black iPhone. I'm a silver iPhone person.
That's the problem with these wimpy tests.
They totally ignored the REAL iPhone killers: toilets full of corrosive pee
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(most of) these videos aren't trying to paint the picture "iPhone aren't built well because look, i broke one"..
- the last couple of years, as a viewer, you're more likely to be: "holy crap, i definitely thought it would of been broken by now".. like - they don't unbox it then smash it with a sledgehammer straight away.. they also do things which you'll very likely do during the course of owning the phone.. many of which, you'll see the phone is likely to survive nowadays whereas it would of broken in the past.. so in those regards, these videos can be informative..
here's another one that's pretty informative:
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The first 'water' test video is invalid and shouldn't be believed.
The guy called the type of coffee 'expresso'. This makes all of his statements invalid.
The guy called the type of coffee 'expresso'. This makes all of his statements invalid.
Every time I see this word in bold, I simply cannot...I have to correct it. I'm sorry.
It's regardless.
Most time, when Apple says WATERPROOF, it actually MEANS it.
Even when they don't say it (like for the 6s and especially the first gen Apple Watch), it usually is anyway.
Many claims done by the competition, including Samsung, seems almost to be scams : once they got your money it doesn't seem matter what happens and anyway, getting your money back is next to impossible (cause we don't stand behind our product). Samsung's customer service record is particularly woeful in general. In the "Note 7" case they had to act because of immense liability and PR damage they'd have if they didn't act.
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If water doesn't get in, it can't really corrode anything and the spot were it did get in you likely can wash it out fast enough to keep damage to a minimum even if it was there a while. In fact, dropping it into a warm tank of distilled water for awhile would be the best way to clean out the phone of any salt.
People has swam in the ocean for 18 months with the supposedly not waterproof first series Apple Watch.
I know a woman who dropped her 3GS into a large glass of wine in 2009. She's probably looking forward to this.