We thought the times of telephones being submerged into water on YouTube are means behind us because the IP68 score has turn out to be a regular function for all flagship units. Nonetheless, the channel Picture Owl Time Lapse has taken issues to a different stage by leaving a superbly working Samsung Galaxy S21 inside a water tank for 12 days.
What’s extra, the video was streamed on YouTube and the experiment is sort of over on the time of writing this text. There are three updates within the video’s description saying that the moisture detection function has turned on and the display screen began misbehaving for some time. The moisture warning continues to be there however the display screen began functioning once more. The audio system appear to have taken the most important hit since they don’t seem to be functioning correctly anymore.
Nonetheless, given the period of the check and the truth that the telephone is submerged into 50cm, the handset is doing a very good of preserving itself. That is 12 days below water whereas the IP68 score is for 1.5m depth for less than 30 minutes. Let that sink in…