Hey! Are the new iPhones any more water resistant than the old ones?
No. It still has holes in it for the sockets etc. No gaskets on the panels either from the teardowns. If the old iPhones are anything to go by then Apple will have put multiple moisture detection pads in it to tell if you've dunked it.
My niece has drowned three of them, and has given up owning one, even thought she really really wants another.
Maybe she should just stop dunking them in stuff :P There aren't that many waterproof phones out there and the ones that are tend to be the more basic models. They're also generally quite chunky from all the waterproofing.
There must be some kind of water proofing that can be applied to the internal boards.
You'd have to waterproof the PCBs. The mic. The speaker. The docking port. The headphone socket. The LCD. The touchscreen. The battery etc... Its not just a case of covering the PCB in a conformal coating and calling it waterproof.
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