After
having done that article on the US$400 Kyocera Brigadier smartphone as stated
in my blog
article entitled “US$400
Kyocera Brigadier – Verizon's Waterproof, Drop-Proof Unscratchable Unbreakable
Sapphire Screen for the Great Outdoors”, I realized there were yet two more
reason for me to dislike smartphones.
My
original reasons for disliking smartphones were their continued poor Battery
Life despite the advances in technology and the fact that they make you
Trackable via GPS as I’d pointed out in my blog article
entitled “The
Reason why I don't like Smartphones - Location Privacy and How to disable
Location Services on Android and iOS”.
Now
I got two more: They’ve got breakable screens and they’re not waterproof.
Granted
a Sapphire, Gorilla Glass 3 or even Diamond Screens would solve that problem.
Diamond screens are very possible, albeit the screen would really be made of
Glass with a thin 1mm Diamond Screen. But the Waterproof problem is a big one
for me and is guaranteed to keep me in the Luddite camp for quite awhile
longer.
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Truth
be told, there are some smartphones that are waterproof as listed in the
article “Six
best water-resistant phones today”, published August 6, 2013 1:55 PM PDT by
Jessica Dolcourt and Lynn La, CNET News and “10
WATERPROOF ANDROID PHONES FOR THOSE RAINY DAYS”, published August 6, 2014
By Andy Boxall, DigitalTrends:
1.
Sony Xperia Z2
2.
Samsung Galaxy S5
3.
Sony Xperia Z1S
4.
Kyocera Hydro Elite (Verizon Wireless)
5.
Sony Xperia Z Ultra (Google Play
Edition)
6.
Samsung Galaxy S4 Active
If
your smartphone or other gadget falls into water, do not turn it on! Instead,
wrap it in towel, drying of as much water as possible. Then get a plastic
container, fill it with Silica Gel packs, those packets that often see come
inside of the boxes with your gadget; you may just search for “silica gel
packs” on Ebay and order them next time.
Then let the Smartphone sit for a week inside of the closed plastic container
to allow the phone to dry out naturally before attempting to turn it on.
But
is there a way to make a smartphone or any phone for that matter Waterproof?
And what do you do if your phone gets wet?
Waterproof and
Water-Resistant – How the IP Rating Scale determines who’s dunkable
Please
note that strictly speaking, no electronics device is totally waterproof, but
by design and the materials used it might be water-resistant. This means it can
resist water damage up to a certain depth or pressure of water for a specified
period of time and is based on its IP or Ingress Protection Rating.
The
IP Rating Scale is a pair of
numbers which give an indication of the degree to which an electronics gadget
can resist exposure to Dust and Water. It’s a scale that consists of two
numbers, the first digit indicating resistance to solid particle protection and
the second digit indicating resistance to liquid.
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With
waterproof smartphones being the latest trend accidentally discovered based on
my blog traffic, it stands to reason that there must be a way to make a
smartphone waterproof via some kind of coating.
Liquipel 2.0 -
Hydrophobic Nano-Particulate Coating that makes smartphones Urinal Resistant
Turns
out there is a company called Liquipel
that made a splash at CES (Computer Electronics Show) 2012 and MWC (Mobile
World Congress) 2012 in Barcelona, Spain as reported in “Have
no fear later this year if you phone drops into the drink”, published February
26, 2012 10:34 AM PST by Stephen Shankland, CNET
News with their hydrophobic nano-particulate coating, a fancy way of saying
that they can make any smartphone water-resistant, if not water proof, as in
the case of the Apple iPhone 4.
The
company returned in CES (Computer Electronics Show) 2013 with a 100x improved
nano-particulate hydrophobic coating dubbed the Liquipel 2.0 as stated in “Liquipel
2.0 phone waterproofer splashes down”, published January 8, 2013 4:22 PM
PST by Reuben Lee, CNET News.
They’ve
also designed another product, basically shock absorber plastic phone case that
came out in January 2014 at the CES 2014 as explained in the article “The
shower-proof smartphone! Firm creates 'skins' that make latest handsets nigh-on
indestructible”, published 14:06 GMT, 10 January 2014 By Sean Poulter, Daily Mail UK.
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Costing
US$59.99, the coating makes your gadgets water-resistant up to IPx7 level,
which translates to 1 m (3.3”) underwater for 30 minutes on the IP Rating Scale.
The
process is basically done in a Vacuum chamber where their patented pending Liquipel 2.0 is adsorbed onto the surface
of the electronics and into every nook and cranny over a period of 30 minutes
and then cured using UV Radiation as shown below.
After
the process, your smartphone becomes water-resistant, albeit not quite
waterproof, as that would imply that you could take it diving. With IPx7 level,
it can at least be taken to the beach and take a coffee or juice spill and yes,
fall out of your top pocket into the urinal.
Not
sure how well the Shock Absorber skins work, though they’re a more tangible
product that Amazon’s Air bags for the smartphone as described in my blog
article entitled “Amazon
patents Fall Prevention Technology for smartphones and Tablets - The Research
begins with Amazon’s patent that’s Hyde Park on Hudson (2013)”.
But
if it can make smartphones resist a fall into the swirling mass of Water that
is the Public Urinal or Toilet, then this trend will accelerate the sales of
smartphones as well as more smartphone designers making their smartphones and
Tablets Water Resistant.
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