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What Has Your Phone Survived?

Posted by timothy on from the very-harsh-words dept.

NotAnIndividual writes "On an ice fishing trip two months ago, I lost my iPhone somewhere in the snow. I searched and searched, but to no avail. But just this weekend when moving the ice hut, lo and behold there it was. I quickly threw it into a bag of rice and placed it under a lamp to defrost. Three hours later I plugged it in. I wasn't expecting much. I mean, really, it had been frozen in snow for the last two months! To my surprise, the Apple logo popped up. I put in the SIM card and voila, my iPhone was back. My apps, my contacts, my music and more importantly my life were back. And this is the same iPhone that I dropped in a cup of coffee a few months ago! This got me wondering how much damage a cell phone can actually take. How have other Slashdot users punished their phones without actually killing them completely?"

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  1. your life? by SharpFang · · Score: 5, Funny

    My apps, my contacts, my music and more importantly my life were back.

    You should really see a dotor about your addiction. I mean, seriously, that's just a phone!

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  2. My god by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm *so* glad your iphone survived. Thanks for sharing your inspiring story with us, I can sleep easy tonight knowing full well that another iphone owner out there has found another way to talk about his iphone on slashdot. Thank you, thank you for this.

  3. Original iPhone 2G by CmdrPorno · · Score: 5, Funny

    My iPhone 2G has survived almost three years of AT&T's spotty reception, their failure to offer a reasonably priced rate plan for people who don't talk much but need data service, their woeful customer service, and their lack of 3G coverage outside metropolitan areas. Other than that, it's been very enjoyable.

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    Sent from my iPhone
  4. Re:Jesus Phone by Tromad · · Score: 5, Funny

    Satan phone is more like a windows mobile phone. You're pretty much free to do whatever you want but you're eventually going to be punished for it.

  5. Re:A full season in the snow by quenda · · Score: 5, Funny

    I had an old just-a-phone get ran over by a loaded 18-wheeler

    While deep-sea fishing 3 years ago, I accidentally dropped my iPhone over the subduction zone of the Mariana Trench.
        Last month I got an email from a guy in New Zealand who found it while skiing on Mount Ruapehu after a volcanic eruption.
    Praised be Apple.