Hi Chip, iFixIt reported these water-resistant improvements shortly after the iPhone 6S and 6S Plus were released and I always thought Apple was quietly doing this to see what sort of reports and returns they get regarding water damage throughout the year before maybe this fall they make an official statement regarding the water-resistant properties of the new iPhones. They have time to improve and add to what they already have done and of course if the 3.5mm headphone jack is gone that means there is one less opening which needs to be protected. Then there is my own experience with my iPhone 6S which I lost in the snow just before Christmas and which was lying there where I lost it for one week short of 4 months. It was lying in the snow, it got frozen to close to minus 40, it went through the melt and was still lying there for a few weeks in April when the snow was already mostly gone and it rained a few times before my brother found it again. After all of that the iPhone still powered up and while the screen didn’t work any more visually (touch was fine) and, as it turned out after Apple ran the diagnostics, the camera also didn’t work any more, the phone itself worked just fine with Voiceover. All functions including WiFi, Bluetooth and cellular worked, I could make calls with it, microphone and speaker worked, the battery charged up and while it seemed a bit less long-lasting, it did hold a charge and all of that. I don’t see why an iPhone or other smartphone for that matter can’t be more or less water-proof. All Garmin GPS units including their touch screen models have an IPX7 waterproof rating which means they can officially survive submersion in 1 metre (just over 3 feet) of water for up to 30 minutes without any ill effects. Granted they use AA batteries with a battery compartment that is sealed off from the rest of the unit, but they also have speakers and all Apple would really need to do is figure out a waterproof seal between the Lightning port and the inside of the iPhone and also somehow waterproof the SIM tray or isolate it from the inside so that you may have to dry out the SIM tray and potentially replace a water-damaged SIM Card. There already is Nano technology where all components are coated with these Nano particles which make them virtually impervious to the exposure to water and I think we’ll see this very soon.
Regards, Sieghard From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chip Orange Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2016 8:11 AM To: [email protected] Subject: turns out IPhone 6s and 6s plus are highly water resistant, and Apple never said https://www.engadget.com/2015/10/02/iphone-6s-waterproof/ Above according to a company named IfixIt Chip -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
