iPhone 3GS takes plunge in pool while shooting video... and lives to tell the tale
By Joshua Topolsky 
posted Jun 27th 2009 2:58PM
posted Jun 27th 2009 2:58PM
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Iphones components are sealed well and most likely took long for water to reach components. Shortly after im sure it broke.
Fake! it looks staged.
Definitely fake. You can clearly see the strap at the 30.75 second mark if you step through the video frame by frame.
an otter case?
First...A REALLY FANTASTIC EDITING JOB
Second...The phone was probably heat sealed in a bag so it remained water proof
Third...Anyone at a pool with a phone deserves it to be dunked!
If this is real, it may be attributable to the non-removable battery. Since the battery connections are not near any case openings (like they would be if there was a battery cover) it would take more than 10 sec.'s for the water to reach those.
In the long run, that phones probably dead, but its best chance at salvation would be to take the battery out and let it dry for several hours. OH THE IRONY!
"It still frickin' works!" - Priceless. I wonder what he has to say now...I'm sure water finally got in through the speakers or something.
Ehhhhh....
Real or Not, Keep that piece of Junk at the Bottom of the POol. Maybe it'll be More useful as a Floating Device than a Non-Functional cell Phone.
haha i love people that dis the iphone when they are just jealous they dont have one yet bc they are stuck with verizon or sprint
Not really cody, we do it because its Junk. Look up on ANY mobile tech site or BB and tell me you don't find More People who's "precious" iFail doesn't keep its 3G signal longer than 2 seconds.
Besides some of us have Money to pay the ETF and don't really care what carrier they're on unlike you apparently. Its not our Fault ATT sucks Balls.
ta ta Cod
Okay Galen, try posting something productive. Which phone do you prefer? What exactly about the iPhone bothers you? Have you owned one?
Oh, while you're at it.. Take a few English courses. It's nExt To Impossible to propErly Read Your Posts when I Can't figuRe Out Where Sentences Start and stOp DuE to YouR baD Capitalization aNd laCK of proper pUncTuation.
I don't know about the iPhone itself but I just sent the headphones it came with through a wash and everything still works fine including the mic and control buttons. I did the same thing with my last set of headphones and they didn't make it. I guess this stuff is kinda water resistant.
While impressive, I think a lot of these things are anecdotical. I work for a large cellphone company in sales, and there's about a 50/50 split of "i washed this phone and it still works" versus "this phone got rained on and now it won't turn back on". Personally my only experience was washing a Sansa mp3 player in the pocket of my pants and it actually still worked perfectly fine afterwards, though the battery was donezo about 4-5 months later. Still a cool video. It's amazing how electronics can survive in water sometimes.
A bottle of cough syrup opened up in my bag once, submersing my sansa in it, it went in all in the screen, the back, everywhere, and it still worked; completely loaded up on cough syrup. the screen was just a little red ;)
I just took my iPhones (2 of them) through being capsized in a lake, twice, from a canoe. Only protection they had were two zipplocked plastic bags. First time no water got in, second time the first bag filled and the second bag leaked some in and were below water for a few minutes.
I believe the video.
And on the guys YouTube video he says the phone is still working and the strap you see in a shadow is a wrist strap he added to a rubber case he had on the phone. He attributes the rubber case to likely being what saved it.
So he had a wrist strap on his phone case and just wasn't using it while filming at the edge of a pool. I think that explaination makes this video less believable.
I had a pos Nokia candybar phone a few years back that I dropped in the sink while doing dishes and that thing kept working. It did stop intially but I let it air dry and if started to work again. It comes down to luck and that's it.
I guess it answers my curious question: will it float?
Guess not :(
So I dropped my Iphone 3g when i was drunk into a jacuzzi last night, was underwater for a whole minute, still works, not initially but it came back to life... Good show!
The real iPhone would just stand on the water, Jesus phone, der