Wow, just wow

http://www.techradar.com/reviews/phones ... 637/review

There's a picture of it in a glass of water and yet no comment about that. Have they finally made use of the hydrophobic coating stuff that has been more and more in the news.

http://www.e2save.com/community/reviews ... eo-review/

Watch the video here.

It can be completely submerged in water for up to 30 minutes.

Wow!

Quite frankly all mobiles especially smart phones should come with waterproofing included.

I saw a piece on Click I think where someone had developed a process to waterproof basically anything. Essentially you put whatever you wanted to waterproof in something that looks like a small oven. That oven was filled with an ionised gas at high(ish) temperature, which caused a nanoscopically thin layer of gas molecules to adhere to the surface of whatever it was. That made the thing waterproof, at least for a period (long exposure in water would dissolve away the molecular coating) while still allowing things like USB plugs and even touchscreens to still work. Quite impressive.

I think I saw that, and it would not add much to the cost. Considering how many are dropped into toilets it would make sense especially for high end smartphones.