Apple iPhone survives three months under snow in -52.6F Russian winter
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Fast forward three months to May 2011, the snow has finally melted and a knock on the surprised owner’s door brought news about the lost and found iPhone. The owner mentions that his neighbor found the phone after a sunlight reflection flashed in the Apple logo. But his astonishment was even bigger as after charging it up, the handset booted with all data intact and capable of taking a call. Unfortunately, some burned pixels on the screens and dents in the body were the inevitable signs of some three months under snow, not to mention the fact that the home and power button were non-functional. But nevertheless, the owner summarizes, the handset has survived three months of snow, the spring flood and numerous street clean-ups. The pictures will tell you the rest of the story.
source: Yaplakal.com (translated)
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10 Comments
2. daniel_bargs posted on 17 May 2011, 10:26 3 3
ur lucky iphone. if i saw that iphone... i'll throw it in the river
3. Jaroniemo posted on 17 May 2011, 11:09 3 3
How did they turn on the phone if the power button didn't work anymore?
4. remixfa posted on 17 May 2011, 12:00 1 1
i was about to ask the same question. lol.
if the internal motherboard n main chips dont get soaked the phone has a high likelyhood of surviving. that says nothing of the "build quality" as ive seen the cheapest and most expencive phones survive all sorts of crap.. its just luck that it didnt get the internals wet. The cold weather wouldnt have hurt the device much at all.. but obviously someone hit it since it got dented.
6. jogutier posted on 17 May 2011, 12:49 2 4
WOW, I want an iPhone now. LMAO!!!! NEVER!!! ANDROID ONLY!!!!!
7. Dark4o90 posted on 17 May 2011, 14:03 2 2
the cold weather doesn't mean it won't work it means for the battery but it's not a big deal to put it in the NEWS
9. andymp3 posted on 17 May 2011, 15:00 3 0
I had the same thing happen to a old nokia..It was in the snow for 6 weeks...The snow finally mrlted in my front yard and I found it...In my case after putting it in a bowl of rice the phone worked perfectly. The only issue was the charging port was rusted...
14. TOdoubleD posted on 18 May 2011, 19:46 5 1
For every story like this, there are a 100 stories of someone dropping their phone 2 foot off the ground, or barely getting the phone wet, and it no longer will do anything.
