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No connector? USB-C connections are pretty useful and are not at the mercy of unreliable wifi connection and wonky inductive charging or lack of inductive charg
by kiba 2y ago
No connector? USB-C connections are pretty useful and are not at the mercy of unreliable wifi connection and wonky inductive charging or lack of inductive charging infrastructure.
Do I want my phone to not break and still work even if it's dropped into a pool of water? Ideally, yes. But what is the tradeoff? Those kind of phones in the youtube video looked like specialist phone for construction workers.
- 0_____0 2y ago??? Lots of phones that are available now and are ingress protected well enough that getting dropped in the pool is a non-issue. Didn't Samsung or Sony have an ad years ago using their flagship phone underwater as a camera?
- actionfromafar 2y agoIt's one thing to do it once in fresh water as a stunt, another to put a phone trough hell on a regular basis. Personally, I think salty environments are really tough to protect against, ions have a tendency to creep in along any metal. I wish the induction charging was standardised as some kind of physical connector instead of just by placing the phone on top of something. Maybe using concentrated light to charge instead. :)
- 0_____0 2y agoSalt water is a whole different ball game. I have a lot of respect for the engineering that goes into marine environments.