Friday, February 19, 2010

iPhone: the unreliability of sensors immersion proved

The controversy swells on immersion sensors which are now riddled with Apple products, beginning with the iPhone. If it is legitimate that the warranty does not support products that have taken the water, these pellets to determine if a product has been immersed manifest themselves often wrong. Many customers report that Apple has actually refused to take responsibility for their products then they would never take water.

A memo from Apple says that patch can be triggered without being exposed to a liquid, and the technicians of maintenance centers must charge customers repair components under investigation. However, the technical documentation of the manufacturer of these sensors immersion is less formal and indicate on it that they can react when certain conditions of temperature and humidity are combined.

The Cupertino company is so far remained deaf to the solicitations, a Polish website has an iPhone to the test to determine if these chips could be activated through a consistent use. The technical specifications of the iPhone suggests it tolerates an operating temperature of 0 to 35 ° C, storage temperature -20 to 45 ° C and a humidity of 5 to 95% noncondensing.

Exposed initially to a moisture content of 90%, close to the limit, the pellets first iPhone did not react.

The laboratory then simulated several scenarios of everyday life. He presented a second iPhone off to average conditions of a living room, a temperature of 23 ° C and a humidity of 35%, then exposed for one hour at a negative temperature of -10 ° C . He repeated the process several times, for example by reproducing the path of an iPhone nine between a warehouse and the home of a user through a shop, or that of a flawed model between the home of a client and a maintenance center.

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