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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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@clacke When #sonTwo was young enough that replacing or repairing his phone was my responsibility, immersion resistance and impact resistance were things I looked for. He once dropped a phone from a balcony at school. It landed in a puddle of water. Was it the fall or the water that killed it? I don't know, but it cost me money to replace it.
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I saw a report on TV the other day about someone who hired a small private plane to take some pictures or shoot a movie or something, but the wind got his phone off his hand. the phone recorded the entire fall and kept on working afterwards; I can't recall whether it fell on water or sand. I seem to be mixing up with another report of a phone lost in water that kept on recording, and was found, still functional, a while later
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I saw a report on TV the other day about someone who hired a small private plane to take some pictures or shoot a movie or something, but the wind got his phone off his hand. the phone recorded the entire fall and kept on working afterwards; I can't recall whether it fell on water or sand. I seem to be mixing up with another report of a phone lost in water that kept on recording, and was found, still functional, a while later