Not once in 14 years have I thought "ugh I wish my phone had splash or immersion water resilience".
I've had only two acquaintances drop their phone in water and one of them was so drunk at the time that he also flushed it because he thought it wouldn't flush and he could pick it up from cleaner water.
IP-whatever rating is a pure marketing gimmick unless you work as a plumber or something.
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in reply to clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy πΈπͺππ°ππ • • •I've dropped fluids on my phones before, and having them be waterproof-ish is quite nice.
I also used to live in a very rainy location, and having your phone be usable without finding shelter is vital.
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in reply to clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy πΈπͺππ°ππ • • •It has saved them, and not just from my own mistakes.
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in reply to Leif Lindholm • • •Cocoa-proof laptops on the other hand ...
But actually it (iBook G4) survived, thanks to the blessed heat shield covering everything. I had to clean the fuzzy opening in the DVD slot before that would work again. π
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Unknown parent • • •and while your environment may be conducive to juggling a fragile glass rectangle that will become inoperable from a splash of wet, there's quite a lot of agriculture, fishing, and forestry enthusiasts who really cannot use a device with such narrow limits on use.
Current gen smartphones are designed to fail, and a bit of waterproofing certainly is not going to fix that...just making the point that your 14 years are pretty darn small of an observation window if you can't see a use for it by some, at least.
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Unknown parent • • •@Luci for Chai Tea I just saw someone comment that Fairphone was hopeless because it wasn't immersion resistant and like, excuse me internet person, 10-15 years ago none of them except twice-as-expensive models for rough use were.
But yeah, if you plop phones all the time or want peace of mind, know yourself I guess, and don't buy a Fairphone.
I didn't expect to find people clumsier than me! I do it in dreams too, just not in real life.
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in reply to clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy πΈπͺππ°ππ • • •Are you using Fairphone now?
If so, what network? And can it do wifi calls?
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in reply to clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy πΈπͺππ°ππ • • •yes, and I am disagreeing with you on scope and perspective.
You dismissed the usability (of environmental protection, specifically waterproofing) outside a specific niche that you are not part of.
I am saying that your niche - not needing environmental durability - is a symptom of the throw-away consumer mindset. Arguing against durability hurts us all, even if you have zero immediate need for the robustness.
Correlary, nobody argues about portable outdoor-use tools of other sorts (lights, cameras, chainsaw/trimmers, lawn mower, even professional test gear that is for use outside a lab environment) not needing to be durable enough for their intended operating environment (the out of doors). But in the smartphone niche, despite the fact that humans are water based (and simple sweat can kill a phone)...
If all phones had waterproofing and end-user repairability, it would be a net benefit to the people, so any argument against it will become the reason why nobody can have it. We saw it with the move to nonphysical keyboards, and we've seen it with the bandwidth wars (literally taking the cheap 2/3g nets offline to push adoption of expensive fragile end user devices).
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in reply to clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy πΈπͺππ°ππ • •I've had a phone (not smart, it was quite a few years ago) die when I had it in my backpack during a bit of rain (one of the worst rains I've been into, I have to admit) while traveling (so no access to the usual drying methods afterwards).
Replacing it wasn't that expensive, so it wasn't a big deal, but for a smartphone that costs significantly more than that I wouldn't mind it to be able to survive an heavy rain.
Also, reading books on the phone in the bath, anybody? :D
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