So I know I am beating a dead horse here but this used to be the main feature I looked for when purchasing a phone but this is now going to change.
I have bought wayyyy too many phones. Every single Nexus. Almost all Sony's up to the Z line. G3,4,5. Sammy s4 through 7... Honor 5x one plus 1 and 2... I know I know I'm like alot of others here.
One thing always drew me back to certain phones and that was water resistance.
My main used phones other than Nexus phones have been Z2 to Z3C then to S6 active to the Z5C from there I now have a CAT S60 and an S7 for my work phone.
Out of all of these phones the S7 is the only one that has not failed under water and that is because it has only been submerged two times.
Z3c died after 5 minutes in the pool in under 2 foot of depth Z2, same fate on the 3rd or 4th time in water. S6 active died in a rainstorm while hiking (it was in my pocket) Z5c lived through 2 pool uses but the microphone was never the same. The S60 which is the most "waterproof" phone out.. Well I have already had it replaced by Cat once due to water ingress in 8 inched of water.... The S7 has been submerged once or twice by my wife in the bath and still works fine. For a while when plugging in it thought everything was a GEAR VR headset though...
What am I getting at?
Water resistance is great on paper but it just doesn't work with phones... I have tried and tried and tried .. Always with bad results. So now I am done with it.
This is just my experience with waterproofing, and it may look nice and feel good to have but for now on I will just ignore it as it never seems to work right for me.
I have bought wayyyy too many phones. Every single Nexus. Almost all Sony's up to the Z line. G3,4,5. Sammy s4 through 7... Honor 5x one plus 1 and 2... I know I know I'm like alot of others here.
One thing always drew me back to certain phones and that was water resistance.
My main used phones other than Nexus phones have been Z2 to Z3C then to S6 active to the Z5C from there I now have a CAT S60 and an S7 for my work phone.
Out of all of these phones the S7 is the only one that has not failed under water and that is because it has only been submerged two times.
Z3c died after 5 minutes in the pool in under 2 foot of depth Z2, same fate on the 3rd or 4th time in water. S6 active died in a rainstorm while hiking (it was in my pocket) Z5c lived through 2 pool uses but the microphone was never the same. The S60 which is the most "waterproof" phone out.. Well I have already had it replaced by Cat once due to water ingress in 8 inched of water.... The S7 has been submerged once or twice by my wife in the bath and still works fine. For a while when plugging in it thought everything was a GEAR VR headset though...
What am I getting at?
Water resistance is great on paper but it just doesn't work with phones... I have tried and tried and tried .. Always with bad results. So now I am done with it.
This is just my experience with waterproofing, and it may look nice and feel good to have but for now on I will just ignore it as it never seems to work right for me.
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