Now that our afternoons are based on bathing is when we ask ourselves what can happen if we wet the mobile. The first thing to differentiate is whether our mobile has IP68 protection against water or not, which will be the key to the answer.
If you have protection against water, you can be calmer with drops, splashes and even an accidental dip, but if not, the answer is clear. It will not be convenient to get it wet if we do not want to lose all our data, files and even photographs, although there are solutions.
Don’t even think about putting it in the water (from the pool or the beach)
As much as we think about removing the fast mobile from the water or drying it thoroughly, smartphones that do not have any type of protection and security against water have a terrible time. Their joints do not have any system based on rubber to repel water and that does not access the components, this adds to the fact that the ports do not have them either and therefore it will be a disaster.
Perhaps in a quick test, we are lucky that the smartphone has managed to save itself, but even after that the smartphone can “die”. The water will remain stagnant inside and as it dries, we will find that the screen may show stains, the battery heats up more than normal and that finally the mobile stops turning on.
The result can be as bad in front of the pool water as the beach, so although the beach water has salt and can corrode the ports more quickly, we should not trust the pool that can cause exactly the same.
Be careful even with the drops
Although we can trust ourselves and take the smartphone when leaving the pool, the drops that continue to fall from ourselves or those that remain on the hands can also seep into the mobile phone. These will also break the terminal , especially if it does not have any type of protection and this would be one of the cases where the IP68 resistance would be helpful for us.
When we refer to wetting the mobile, not only do you have to think about submerging it or dropping it, it is also important to take into account the humidity that can reach the interior of the smartphone. This also ends up affecting our terminal since humidity in places where there is water is very present and is even noticeable on the towel where we leave the phone.
The only way to get it wet
If our interest in wetting the mobile without water resistance continues after everything that can happen to it, we will have to think about the only solution to recommend: using a waterproof case. You have to be careful with them and close them hermetically in the best way, but without a doubt they manage to give the desired result in the pool or on the beach.
There are many options, but we must not lose sight of aspects as important as the size of our smartphone so that it takes without difficulties. Most of them are closed with the help of two clips that we have to tighten completely and before taking a quiet bath, it is better to do a first test to confirm that it is not damaged. In this way, even if the mobile does not have protection, we can get it wet being very careful since in the event of a failure, we will run out of mobile.