Fujitsu demonstrates underwater phones and tablets

Earlier today I said speed was perhaps the only differentiator left in the market for device differentiation in reference to the Microsoft speed challenge here at Mobile World Congress 2012 in Barcelona. At the Fujitsu booth I learned I was wrong, not once but twice. The company had numerous demonstrations of its soon-to-be-released devices working while immersed in water.

In addition they had a robotic test dropping a ball on a smartphone screen repeatedly with no breakage. The devices should hit Europe soon and the pictures below are worth some very wet words. The first fish tank shot below in fact shows an Android phone ringing while under water. It's the middle phone on the top row.

Pics and source: http://www.telecomstechnews.com/blo...uses-water-and-drop-testing-to-differentiate/

So scuba divers can take calls and browse the internet. Awesome.

killadoob said:

So scuba divers can take calls and browse the internet. Awesome.

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Not quite. Those tests were done in a fishtank, and shows the phones' resilience against water. The problem when thinking of scuba is that your propagation medium changes. Water loves microwaves - it is on this very principle that the microwave oven is built. The attenuation losses at 10m would be very high.

answering your smart phone in the rain!
Nice!

If you swallow a tablet underwater, do you still have to swallow a glass of water?

Yah, I know it's off topic, but thread begs the question

bekdik said:

If you swallow a tablet underwater, do you still have to swallow a glass of water?

Yah, I know it's off topic, but thread begs the question

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Depends...
I'm sure a 7" could be dry swallowed, it's the 10.1" tablets that look like they might need a little extra help