Whenever smartphones are exposed to water at some point during their life, the owners always have to face bad things. Various manufacturers have been trying and most of the flagship these days claim that their phones are waterproof and water resistant however a lot of devices still do not have enough protection. There is a dire need to understand the waterproofing and water damage in smartphones these days. For that we need to know different types of waterproofing solutions that are available and understand how water damage actually works with these smartphones. Once we gain sufficient knowledge of the smartphones, we will be able to understand these things better and find a solution easily.
The different kinds of waterproofing
Smartphones are electronic and technological devices come with different kinds of ways to deal with water damage. One of the most common protections is to use rubber gaskets or adhesives that conceal the phone. These rubber protections protect the internals of the smartphone from any water pouring. Normally most of the devices and the components that come protected with are water resistant nano coating. This coating is responsible for keeping the moisture and other water particles away from sensitive components so that no short circuit occurs. In order to protect the button, there is a Silicon layer that isolates the electronic component and applies water resistance. This silicone layer covers the button and allows it to be pressed without any issues.
Most of the big manufacturers take extra measures to protect the phones from water damage. And the most common solution that also faced a lot of criticism was the removal of the headphone Jack. Since phones, these days are fixed and come with non-removable batteries so the only single large opening in any phone is the headphone Jack. It is prone to water damage so various manufacturing companies tried making phones without a headphone Jack but this did not prove out to be valid as the audience did not like this. All of these things that have been explained above should be known to your technician so that he can fix the phone better when it is in need of repair. A cell phone repair expert will know how phones are protected in order to do their work better.
Ingress Protection (IP) Rating
IP rating is something you must be familiar with if you have been keeping up with the phones recently. IP rating basically stands for English protection and it is used to measure how safe your phone is from water and dust. It is an international standard that can measure the waterproofing of your smartphone. Most of the companies show their rating for the devices that they manufacture to prove how effective their product is. The IP rating has basically two separate numbers. The first one is used to measure how resistant your phone is towards solid particles and the other one is for water. The scale to measure solid particles ranges from 1-6 and the range to measure water resistance ranges from 1-8. This means that the higher the number will be the better resistance your phone will have.
When performing a water resistance test, a smartphone is tested for a number of different scenarios. These tests are carried out to see if the device can withstand droplets of water, jets and streams of it or even submerged in it. After going through a thorough test any conclusion is mid about the water resistance of a smartphone
there are some limitations of IP ratings as well. It should be kept in mind by the users that IP rating of a device is often carried out in a lab that has a controlled environment. It doesn’t show what can happen to a smart phone in a swear environment.
Conclusion
Keeping in view all the above discussion, some cases R different and your phone is just a man made device. You should not be completely irresponsible about your smartphone. You can protect your smartphone from fresh water but it will not stand up to other situations for example a water pool with chlorine in it or seawater etc. You should always keep your phone away from juices and sodas while drinking them because it isn’t prone to such things as well.
