Salt Water Phone Depth Challenge!
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2017-05-06
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821 words · ~4 min read
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this is a mesh bag we're going to be
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taking these phones down 60 feet in salt
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water to find out which ones survive to
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how deep if any of them come along for the
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ride we're going to go down 60 feet but of course the initial test has to happen
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here on the surface are we lying or do these phones even work
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iPhone boom working
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G5 boom that one's working too Moto X oh
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yeah baby that one's working Z5 premium
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it's got a 4K screen let's see if that 4K screen survives Galaxy S7 look at
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that AMOLED screen in the in the direct sunlight not too shabby hey finally the
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Kera whatever the crap this thing is we
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only like this one because it actually has a swimming Android robot as its boot
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screen this one really thinks it's tough we're going to find out if it really
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is so our first test at 10 ft or about 3
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m yielded some results that if we had an
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ounce of gray matter in our heads wouldn't surprise us much the LG G5
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which advertises no water resistance at all was dead immediately but also some
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results that did surprise me I really
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thought the Sony Z5 premium would last at least for a little while but it was
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dead already at 10 ft this made me feel
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very uncertain about whether any of the phones would still be alive and the Moto
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xpls water repellent coating did did nothing to calm my fears it was
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completely dead 0 for three so far and
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the iPhone 6s was no different one press
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of the lock button confirmed that I was down at least four of my six phones
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right out of the gate but the Galaxy S7
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came through for me look at that its Ingress Protection or IP rating of 6 fet
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which you can learn more about here by the way has kept it alive at 10 ft under
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the salt water bam but what about the
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Kera duraforce yes we have another winner it
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is officially a twoh horse race time to
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pack them up and go
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deeper so at 20 ft we continue our story
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or rather some of us do the kerad dura Force breathed its last somewhere
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between 10 and 20 ft under the surface
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of the ocean but what of the Galaxy S7 oh yes so it's rated at 30 minutes to
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a depth of 1.5 M or about 5 ft in fresh
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water but it is actually managed four times that depth so far in salt water
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but how low can it go our next stop is
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30 ft
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down and it works amaz okay hold on a
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second so this was actually a little confusing for me at the time because I
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wasn't looking at it when the screen spazzed out but uh there you have it
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while the Galaxy S7 might not have made it to the awards ceremony it does come
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out the big winner in our seawater waterproofness test now just to ensure
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the accuracy of our results and that none of the other phones had sprung back
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to life I gave each of them a quick double check under the water before
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continuing the rest of the dive they all ConEd out by 30
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ft with the Galaxy S7 actually holding
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up the best what we're going to do is
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we're going to get these into fresh water and then
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alcohol and then we're actually going to attempt recovering them but for now
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thank you guys for tuning into our ocean
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G test SP sped by Phantom
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glass they make great screen protectors
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but even Phantom glass couldn't have protected these phones from the depths
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of the ocean I mean look at this look at this
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one this one's like got the back coming off here huge shout out to Phantom glass
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for sponsoring this episode of lonus tech tips Phantom glass makes the
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awesome Gorilla Glass Nano coated screen
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protectors that are designed to perfectly fit your phone screen check
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