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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. Slow by Exitar · · Score: 5, Insightful

    news day?

    1. Re:Slow by mdwh2 · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Exactly. Today has been the day of "But we couldn't think of anything else for today's obligitary Iphone Slashvertisement".

      We've already had the classic of judging the success of a product in a completely different market, by comparing it to how few Iphones have been sold. So here we have Saturday's obligitary Iphone story. Before you know it, there'll be stories about how you can now finally visit a website On Your Iphone, like it's 2001 again. Oh wait, we we already did that one too. Before you know it, there'll be stories about how you can use your Iphone to talk to a complete stranger, as if they were in the same room as you, just like on Star Trek...

      (Seriously, as soon as I read the headline of "What Has Your Phone Survived", I immediately guess that there'd be obligatory advertising for Apple, despite being a niche player in this market. You know what my Nokia 5800's survived? Not being the subject of a major spam campaign by the media, that's what.)

  2. Re:Speaking of fish by goodmanj · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Callin' bullshit on that article.

  3. Re:A full season in the snow by gspira · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Sounds like you shouldn't bother with the cases and screen protectors..

  4. Re:Really.. a cup of coffee by sjames · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Hard core coffee drinkers have huge mugs and for some reason they don't like to wash them either.

    Wash the mug!?! Are you crazy! Do you have any idea how long it takes to get the perfectly balanced biological film deposited to bring out the full rich coffee experience? Not to mention the saved up oils of coffees past that gets in the pores of the mug!

    Where do you come up with this mug washing crazy talk?

  5. Re:A full season in the snow by mmarlett · · Score: 4, Insightful

    My iPhone didn't live through it, but when I got hit by a little old lady who ran a red light, my iPhone took a direct hit. I was thrown 20 feet and broke a half dozen ribs. I had a bruise up my left side from my knee to my shoulder -- with a non-bruised rectangle where the phone was. It was at ground zero of the impact, and may have absorbed enough impact to keep my thigh from breaking. iArmour.