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Re: Show HN: Web app that blows water out of your phone's speakers (warning: loud)

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Post by matsemann »

zxcvgm wrote: post #45
supermatt wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Likely inspired by the Apple Watch feature. I’m surprised Apple didn’t build this into their phones as well. Good job!

If you're wondering how effective this is, the Slow Mo Guys has filmed it working in slow motion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIEwy8rPik4

Kinda genius, but also kinda make me think that the Apple Watch is useless near water? Lots of people here have said they prefer the Apple Watch to a more dedicated fitness watch (like a Garmin FR 945), but looks like that's only possible in dry conditions.

Re: Show HN: Web app that blows water out of your phone's speakers (warning: loud)

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Post by jonsolo »

saagarjha wrote: post #17
supermatt wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Likely inspired by the Apple Watch feature. I’m surprised Apple didn’t build this into their phones as well. Good job!

You're technically not supposed to submerge your iPhone; it voids their warranty. (It drives me mad that they do this in their advertisements, but I guess showing people doing things that would void their device's warranty is not false advertising…)

Lots of car commercials show them performing well in an accident, but nobody expects crash damage to be covered by warranty. Why must phones be held to a different standard?

Re: Show HN: Web app that blows water out of your phone's speakers (warning: loud)

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Post by daniellarusso »

jonsolo wrote: post #52
saagarjha wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're technically not supposed to submerge your iPhone; it voids their warranty. (It drives me mad that they do this in their advertisements, but I guess showing people doing things that would void their device's warranty is not false advertising…)

Lots of car commercials show them performing well in an accident, but nobody expects crash damage to be covered by warranty. Why must phones be held to a different standard?

Well, the phone being dunked in water, the end result being advertised, is that it is still a fully functional device, not that it was sacrificed to protect oneself from physical harm.

The cars, after they crash, do not work anymore.

Re: Show HN: Web app that blows water out of your phone's speakers (warning: loud)

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Post by jonsolo »

daniellarusso wrote: post #53
jonsolo wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Lots of car commercials show them performing well in an accident, but nobody expects crash damage to be covered by warranty. Why must phones be held to a different standard?

Well, the phone being dunked in water, the end result being advertised, is that it is still a fully functional device, not that it was sacrificed to protect oneself from physical harm. The cars, after they crash, do not work anymore.

Making a product resist damage shouldn’t confer insurance against said damage. Apple also uses Gorilla Glass so you can drop your phone a dozen times without damage. Are people mad at Apple for not covering every cracked screen?

Re: Show HN: Web app that blows water out of your phone's speakers (warning: loud)

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Post by daniellarusso »

codetrotter wrote: post #23
6gvONxR4sf7o wrote: post #21

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Seriously? Wow that’s all kinds of messed up to advertise and then tell people not to do. As a society, we’re in a pretty bad place when it comes to how much we simply expect false-ish advertising.

Perhaps tangential but I wanted to mention that if anyone else is looking to take photos under water at shallowish depths (about 10m at most), I found a cheap and reliable waterproof case with camera trigger button that I’ve been happy with. The camera trigger button of the case works by mechanically pushing the volume button on your phone, which when the built-in photo app of your phone is open works to take photos.…

I have read good things about the Panasonic Lumix cameras.

They older models seem to be around $100 and go to about 20 feet.

Newer models seem to be around $350 to $500.

Seems like a lower risk.

Re: Show HN: Web app that blows water out of your phone's speakers (warning: loud)

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Post by daniellarusso »

adrianN wrote: post #13
anthropodie wrote: post #8

> So you've dropped your phone in the toilet, Would you guys pick it up? I am not sure what I would do. Edit: of course, I would not let it clog the drain. I mean would you use it afterward.

A phone is ten to twenty hours of minimum wage, and probably a few hundred kilograms of CO2. Not to mention the stuff stored on it. Of course I'd pick it up.

$145 before taxes are removed for working 20 hours.

It would take 97 hours of untaxed minimum wage work to purchase an iPhone 12 mini.

Re: Show HN: Web app that blows water out of your phone's speakers (warning: loud)

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Post by XorNot »

jonsolo wrote: post #54
daniellarusso wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, the phone being dunked in water, the end result being advertised, is that it is still a fully functional device, not that it was sacrificed to protect oneself from physical harm. The cars, after they crash, do not work anymore.

Making a product resist damage shouldn’t confer insurance against said damage. Apple also uses Gorilla Glass so you can drop your phone a dozen times without damage. Are people mad at Apple for not covering every cracked screen?

Showing a car siding crash damage is quite different to speaking a phone still working, and manufactures of cars world be sued info oblivion if the advertised crash safety performance wasn't actually achieved.

Re: Show HN: Web app that blows water out of your phone's speakers (warning: loud)

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Post by daniellarusso »

anthropodie wrote: post #8

> So you've dropped your phone in the toilet, Would you guys pick it up? I am not sure what I would do. Edit: of course, I would not let it clog the drain. I mean would you use it afterward.

So, I would be disgusted for sure, especially if it was not my toilet in my own home.

Hypothetically, I would use a dishwashing glove or simply wrap my hand around a clean garbage bag and use that to retrieve it.

Afterwords, not sure what I would do.

I would probably take it apart to clean, and either way, sell it as a functioning unit if it worked, or part it out and sell the parts or the unit as-is.

So, retrieve soiled phone, get new phone, sell old phone for parts.

Re: Show HN: Web app that blows water out of your phone's speakers (warning: loud)

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Post by throwanem »

markdown wrote: post #50
h0l0cube wrote: post #33

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> dry the outside of the phone with paper and put the phone in an open box with a lot of rice iFixIt claims this is just psychological comfort and offers this advice: > The real secret to water damage? You don't want to dry it! > What you want to do is first displace the water—or more specifically, all the conductive stuff in the water. You can do this best by using 90%+ isopropyl (rubbing) alcohol and a toothbrush.…

iPhones are all locked up, so ifixit's advice is worse than useless... it just serves to frustrate. What use is telling people to open up an iPhone when regular people don't have the tools to do so?

iFixit sells the tools to do so and provides detailed guides on how to use them.

It might sound like a racket to you, but at this point they've saved me something like half a grand net, minimum, on phone repair and replacement, by making it possible for me to do that work myself and thus not have to replace phones nearly so often.

Most recently, this came in useful when I actually did drop a phone in water, just like we're talking about here, and was able to not only clean it out but also replace the battery, which swelled quite alarmingly in the aftermath.

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