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is your mobile in hot water

October 26, 2008 at 10:52 am 1 comment

Or for that matter cold water – the WSJ reports on the trend of mobile phones getting damaged by accidental exposure to water, and some interesting remedial courses of action taken by users.

So what’s in the reckoning, 30m water resistant phones – certainly, hope floats.

When Debora Munczek’s BlackBerry slipped off her folded newspaper and into the toilet one morning, she suspected it wasn’t the first time in history that a cellphone got drenched. So she searched “cellphones and water” on the Internet and followed the advice that popped up: Remove the battery, wrap the device in a dry washcloth and aluminum foil, and bake it in the oven for several hours at a low setting.

The phone worked pretty well after that — until Ms. Munczek, a sleep-deprived clinical psychologist in New York City, dropped it twice more into the toilet. It then began dialing random phonebook entries, including the local police precinct. That was when she decided to call it quits and get a new phone.

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