But they should. We're way overdue for water-friendly phones, and I don't mean some big contraption that looks like the old yellow Sony sports Walkman, or a crazy-expensive phone only Eco Challenge athletes might buy.
I mean, by now all cell phones should be water-resistant. Even with basic rubber gaskets installed in key areas, they'd still be flimsy enough to support the disposable phone market. We should be able to eke just a bit more life out of them by making them withstand a few moments of complete submersion.
One friend of mine has already lost a phone to toilet dunking, an unfortunate result of keeping it in her back pocket, and today mine took a dip in the shallow end of the swimming pool.
It doesn't matter who picked up the corner of my towel or how that person never bothered to look at what they were doing as my phone tumbled helplessly from the warm, dry towel into the cool, blue water. It happened, and my little toy went glub, glub, glub into the deep end. I did get a nice dinner out of it, so there's that.
I'm told that after a few days we can try to power it up & see what happens. Of course I tried right away to see if it would work and probably fried something, but I was being optimistic. Or in denial. It looked kinda dry - shouldn't it boot right up? I *thought* all my data/phone numbers were stored on the SIM and memory cards, but alas, the phone numbers were not. They're all in the soggy phone.
So, now we wait... It sits alone on a towel on a table in its tiny ICU ward. Poor little thing never saw it coming. Enjoying a warm afternoon one minute, drowning the next.
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