Can Your Smartphone Survive a Dunking?
Monday, 03 January 2011 | by Pat's Picks
San Jose Mercury News technology writer Patrick May has a funny column on something most of us live in fear of doing: dropping our smartphones into a “bowl” of water. Exactly what kind of “bowl” swallowed his phone is left up to readers to decipher. But May writes in crystal-clear language about the “profound and deafening silence” he was plunged into as a result. And then he gives us all a reason to hope.