Saturday, 23 July 2011

Good: 5 ways to waterproof your iPhone this summer (Technology)

Now which the iPhone is your residence book, GPS system, camera, email reader, MP3 player as good as a total horde of alternative things, we wish it with we wherever we go all summer long. That includes the beach, a dug-out trip, fishing, stream rafting as good as unresolved out poolside. 

To assistance we feel some-more gentle receiving your phone to these potentially gadget-wrecking places, we scoured the Web seeking for a accumulation of covers to keep your iPhone stable from splashing, drowning as good as bubbly beverage spills. Here’s what we found, from tall to low:

1. Magellan ToughCase,$ 99.99

Toughcase

Pros: This doesn’t only strengthen your iPhone, it improves it. The ToughCase includes an inner battery which charges the iPhone, as good as it has an integrated GPS thinly slice which improves accepting accuracy. Also, it allows the phone to be submerged during a abyss of 1 scale for up to thirty minutes, as good as it is utterly interactive — we can still operate the hold screen, tough buttons as good as audio jack.

Cons: It adds bulk to the phone, as good as it’s pricey.

2.Krusell SEaLABox Waterproof Case, $ 69

Sealabox

Pros: Capable of land alternative electronic devices, not only the iPhone. The association says it will keep the phone dry during a abyss of 1 scale for thirty minutes, comes with a neck tab as good as allows we to take cinema as good as cinema underwater. Also, the website gives specific instructions on how to operate the box so we won’t hurt your iPhone.

Cons: Still flattering pricey, generally if it’s your second case.

3. Otterbox 2000, $ 17.95

Otter_box
Pros: The Otterbox 2000 offers some-more than only H2O insurance — it offers drowning insurance too. Drop your phone over the side of a vessel whilst it’s in this box as good as the iPhone will incline on the H2O until we fish it out. The $ 17.95 price tab is good inside of the operation of reason.

Cons: Your iPhone might be all protected, though it’s additionally obsolete whilst in the box. Also, the Otterbox is even bulkier than the Magellan ToughCase. You won’t be shifting this in to your pocket.

4. Expansys Waterproof Case, $ 11.99

Expansys
Pros: A sincerely sleek, indisputable box which boasts sixteen particular sealing points as good as a twist-lock pattern which creates it easy to take the device in as good as out of the case. The box floats, as good as the association says special “Play Through” element gives users full entrance to the phone, allowing them to operate the hold scren. Also, this neon-yellow tone would have it easy to find in a beach bag. (The box additionally comes in black.)

Cons: None rught away apparent, though we haven’t attempted this a single yet.

5. Ziploc bag    

Ziploc

Pros: You can’t kick the price, as good as we substantially already have this on hand. If not, it is simply purchased during a supermarket or drugstore. My sister, who only outlayed a month on a investigate vessel off the seashore of San Diego, pronounced this was the approach many of the naval scientists kept their phones dry.

Cons: This is some-more of an “in a pinch” option. On the Ziploc website a commenter reported which the Ziploc kept her phone dry when it plunged in to a stream on a rafting trip, though nobody would indicate we essentially plunge a phone in a Ziploc bag. (We did it, as good as it did in the future get wet.)

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– Deborah Netburn

Photos: Magellan ToughCase, pleasantness of Magellan; Krusell SEaLABox Waterproof Case, pleasantness of Krusell; Otterbox 2000, pleasantness of Otterbox; Expansys Waterproof Case, pleasantness of Expansys; David Sarno’s aged cellphone in a Ziploc bag, Kathy Pyon/Los Angeles Times

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