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Your Cell Phone Company’s Clever Secret

Submitted by Patrick on November 10, 2009 – 3:05 am | One Comment

I was browsing through the website Lifehacker and found a post called, Top 10 Clever Fixes for Your Broken Stuff. When you scroll down to item #3 in the post, it has a few solutions that might help rescue your cell phone if you ever accidentally submerge it in water.

What I found interesting was the mention of a paper inside the phones that changes color when a little liquid comes in contact with it, to make voiding a warranty easier for them.

I’ve wondered how they’d be able to tell if a phone had gone under if it were allowed to fully dry before being brought in.

So now I know.

Fortunately, it’s never happened to me, and I’m going to do my best to keep it that way.

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donna W says:

November 10, 2009 at 9:21 am

It HAS happened to us. We let it fully dry and also buried it in rice for a couple of days (everybody said that would fix it). Didn’t work.

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