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I have just read this news item on the BBC Red Button service.
This may be a silly question but who in their right mind charges a phone, any phone, while they're in the bath? Or near any water for that matter. I would have thought even a non-techie like me knows this is a no-no!
The story went on to say the coroner planned to send a report to Apple 'about taking action to prevent future deaths'.
Is it me or isn't this just common sense.
This may be a silly question but who in their right mind charges a phone, any phone, while they're in the bath? Or near any water for that matter. I would have thought even a non-techie like me knows this is a no-no!
The story went on to say the coroner planned to send a report to Apple 'about taking action to prevent future deaths'.
Is it me or isn't this just common sense.
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@Glory1 In a lifeproof case a phone can be used anywhere without any ports open on the beach or bath. If you use an external battery pack at 5v you could also charge near water as the voltage or amp age would not do any harm.
To put this in perspective any 5v dc device not connected to anything will never harm you. But introduce 240v ac at max 13amps can kill but in modern installs of mains power, the main distribution boards use rcd's are used rather than fuses and they trip easily preventing this sort of incident.
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Thank you @adamtemp64 you have given me very useful information none of which I was aware of. I imagine there are many people like me who are unaware of what you say. This is the sort of information everyone with a mobile should have.
