PhoneSoap Charger - Do You Have Poop on Your Phone?
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2015-05-07
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did you know that you might have poop on your phone find out about this and more
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at
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11 Cooler Master V series semi modular
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power supplies feature 80 plus gold efficiency and their gold guarantee
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5year warranty click now to learn more so most people don't know that they have
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poop on their phones including me until recently I knew that FICO matter flying
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out of your toilet when you flushed it was kind of an issue but I didn't quite
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realize how bad it actually was luckily someone at the welcome trust did know
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about this the welcome trust's aim is to and I quote achieve extraordinary
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improvements in health by supporting the brightest minds and essentially they're
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an independent charity that funds research to improve human and animal
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health they accomplished this by being one of the world's largest providers of
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non-governmental funding and they funded
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a study that found that one in six phones are contaminated by feal matter
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which wouldn't be a problem if you could wash your phone the same way you wash
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dishes enter the phone soap charger a proper cleaning solution for your phone
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phone soap claims and I quote that there is a lot of ways to sanitize your phone
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such as with soap bleach or fire the
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first two will very possibly damage your phone and however awesome cleansing your
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phone with fire may sound don't do it
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although that being said having a fire cleansing blowtorch for your phone would
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be pretty metal ah back to reality so how does it work well the phone soap
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utilizes ultraviolet germic radiation
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which is already used in a variety of applications including food air and
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water purification the the specific ultraviolet light required is called UVC
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which is short wavelength ultraviolet radiation and the phone soap uses two
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UVC lamps which are positioned above and below the phone while it is inside the
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phone soap charger all of this sounds great because after all the research
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I've been doing I'd rather not have this acne causing disease spreading crap pun
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intended on my phone because that thing goes against my face man some amount of
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germs can be good for your immune system but the amount that is on your phone
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could be a little bit too much now that we know how it works let's do a quick
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tour of the unit in terms of build quality well it's a plastic box it's
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totally unexceptional but it also isn't horrible I would have liked to see more
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considering you're paying $60 for what is essentially two UV lamps a USB plug
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and some plastic housing around it but if it performs its function then I guess
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that's all right speaking of USB plug you can plug in any USB cable you want
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into the unit so be able to charge pretty much whatever phone you have
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which is nice and there's an LED on the front of the unit which shows its status
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blue means the unit is currently in cleaning mode and green means your phone
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is fully charged and last but not least there are unique acoustic Outlets AKA
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holes which are cut into the bottom of the unit which will allow sound to pass
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through so you won't miss any alarms or notifications that may go off and with
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that out of the way the question on everyone's mind is does it actually work
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well phone soap and the Daily Planet both seem to think so they went to a
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microbiology lab and made this video I'm No scientist but their results seemed a
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little bit too amazing and although this is my personal nonprofessional
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opinion uh I wasn't a fan of a few things about their methodology one they
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sprayed pre-made bacteria on the phone and immediately went to Cleansing it
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with a phone soap or in the case of the control immediately pressing against an
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augar plate this process doesn't seem as
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real world as we would like with our testing two they only left the phone in
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the phone soap for the 4-minute cycle that it takes to clean the phone not the
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common way I would expect people to use it which is an overnight cycle three
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they claim you see results of the control test that was had bacteria that
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was living on the phone but it was just sprayed on the phone with a solution
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that was pre-created all in all it felt like the control test was just a result
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of exactly what was in the spray bottle they may have well just sprayed the
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spray bottle directly onto the agar and again I'm not a scientist but letting
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different bacteria live on the phone for prolonged period of time so it has time
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to cultivate and grow like it would in the real world especially in pockets and
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purses which act almost like incubators would make for a more realistic test
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than just a spray bottle the test didn't have much to do with the phone they
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could have actually sprayed this Solution on any non-biocidal object and
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the results honestly would have been the same so let's walk through the methodologies we used we actually
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decided to do it a second time because we were worried when our initial results
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conflicted with the daily Planet the first test was with two separate HTC1
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m8s which I cleaned off with an alcohol solution then I used both of them the
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exact same way doing the exact same thing for 2 days I then put one phone in
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the phone soap and left it on the table and left the other one on the table
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beside it for a total of 8 hours after which I let the cultures grow in AAR for
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a little over a week the results were inconclusive with all the plates looking
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more or less the same and we were concerned that using two different
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phones and letting the plates cultivate for too long may have both affected our
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results the second test was done with one phone an iPhone 4 I ran this through
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a worst case scenario by intentionally not taking care of it the way I normally
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do as I'm actually quite anal about the cleanliness of my phone un intended I
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prepared AAR plates and then swabbed the phone before putting it in phone soap
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charger as I first put four plates in our war warm server room to cultivate
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after 8 hours I swabbed the now phone soaped phone and did the same thing
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about 4 days later it takes longer because we don't have incubator I first
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took the control samples out and filmed an examination of them and then 8 hours
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later I took the phone so samples out and filmed an examination of them as
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well doing the exact same procedure to be clear once again we're not scientists
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and we totally love to hear your feedback on our methodology and we're
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not specifically calling out the Daily Planet we just thought this thing was
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pretty cool so we bought it for an unboxing ages ago but since we don't do
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unboxings anymore we end up having to actually review it I don't actually
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think there's anything inherently ly wrong with daily planet's testing methodology and it is likely more
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technically correct than ours is I just prefer more real world testing scenario
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when testing something that I will actually use in the real world this is
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the same reason why we do gaming benchmarks by actually playing the game
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instead of using a canned Benchmark in the end the results were not as good as
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I was hoping after watching the other video but it did have a repeatable
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measurable positive effect in one case
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it actually left the plate very if not perfectly clean but it did leave things
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behind in our three other scenarios another thing to note is that we are not
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in a lab so the control group isn't perfect meaning that all the AAR plates
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didn't have the exact same bacteria or the exact same amount of bacteria in
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them but that doesn't change the fact that the phone soap still didn't cleanse
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whatever that bacteria was off the phone and this bacteria is what came out of
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the foone soap so as far as I can tell if you want something that can mostly
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clean your phone then the phone soap is it but it may not be the 100% effective
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solution that the Daily Planet showed in their video and it also won't help the
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fact that your pocket is essentially an incubator and you are growing cultures
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throughout the day while you use your phone let me know what you guys think in
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