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Should all handsets be water-resistant?

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With the announcement of Sony's latest smartphone Xperia Z at the CES 2013 - A debatable question has made me a bit curious and I'm wondering what do you peeps think?

 

According to sources, "about one in 10 people had dropped their phone down a toilet at some point" - well, I definitely haven't (till now :)) however, should all handsets be water-resistant? 

 

 

Xperia Z

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@Liquid wrote:
If I'm honest the second time was after brushing my teeth and I was checking the traffic on my phone went to put it into my pocket and forget I didn't have any pockets on my jumper lol.

Only you could do that Liquid!

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Lol agreed:(

Was meant to say Pajamas not jumper:/

I don't brush my teeth over the toilet haha
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I find it strange that a quick dunk in water sometimes has end of life circumstances for phones. Having been an angler for longer than I care to admit we use bite indicators that are battered by the rain at times and never a issue with water ingress into the electronics.

I feel a conspiracy theory brewing

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Rain water is clean to a large extent.

De-ionised/distilled water can be used as collant in direct contact with components. (Well some precautions haha)

It's the rubbish we have in our water added by the water board that creates the ability to conduct electricity.

 

however I'm sure you know that already:) 

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@Liquid wrote:

Rain water is clean to a large extent.

De-ionised/distilled water can be used as collant in direct contact with components. (Well some precautions haha)

It's the rubbish we have in our water added by the water board that creates the ability to conduct electricity.

 

however I'm sure you know that already:) 


I am tethering which seems to dislike emoticions for some strange reason, Guess a data issue.  My last post was meant to end in a smiley.

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Haha sorry 😞

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