I have recently had to purchase yet another phone because mine got wet in the rain. Why aren’t there any waterproof options?
Come on, Nokia! I would buy one!!! 
[quote=“Pixie”]I have recently had to purchase yet another phone because mine got wet in the rain. Why aren’t there any waterproof options?
Come on, Nokia! I would buy one!!! :p[/quote]
You just did buy “one”. Nokia is happy and says thank you. 
Sometimes in 2000 I saw some “outdoor” mobile phones, waterproof and you could drop them as may times as you wanted… looks like nobody wanted to buy one back then.
That phone was only splashproof!! Know someone who has one, and you can’t buy them in Taiwan. (Some models are not brought here.) Thanks anyway.
I doubt there really is a market for that.
Not a Nokia but a Siemens that is splashproof at least.
Else get a waterproof bag. 
I lost 4 phones this year because of drinking and swimming.Will be a great idea: A waterproof phone.
[quote=“Pixie”]I have recently had to purchase yet another phone because mine got wet in the rain. Why aren’t there any waterproof options?
Come on, Nokia! I would buy one!!! :p[/quote]
A great idea - but don’t hold your breath. The companies that make these things are glad that you have to keep buying replacements for their non-durable products.
But as for what you can do to protect your phone from the rain - probably best to get one of those earphone sets for hand-free operation. Yeah, I know it’s kind of a pain to wear an earphone, but anyway, it allows you to carry out a conversation while your phone is safely tucked away inside your clothes or a waterproof belt pouch, or wherever.
By the way, I have a friend who (until recently) worked for Motorola. He designed the input methods for Chinese phone text messaging. I hit him up with what I thought were very good suggestions about how to improve phone security. He said that Motorola was so stratified that members of one design team couldn’t even talk to members of another team. So basically, he just couldn’t even talk to those in charge of “security design” because he was in charge of “text-message input design”. So I would guess there’s no chance of him (or any other “outsider”) being able to talk to those who could make a waterproof phone. I think a lot of big corporations are like the now-collapsed Soviet bureaucracy - including a certain well-known travel book publishing company in Australia that I used to work for. I also got tired of being told “It’s not your department.”
If your phone gets wet from the rain, take out the battery immediately and let it dry out for a day or two. Chances are that it’ll still work.
Although, I can’t imagine how wet it could’ve gotten from the rain. I know someone who fell in a river (with his phone) and is still using the same phone.
I dropped mine in a dinghy full of seawater a few years back, but if the bloody viking that was driving had got the arrangements right - like having the water outside the boat - it wouldn’t have mattered.
Anyway, Verizon gave me a new one without me even insuring it first.
Re, this:
I’ve seen a waterproof case for mobile phones at a dive shop in Taiwan, so you can take your phone underwater. Very useful feature, that.
Nokia just relased the 5140, it’s water, shock resistant etc… not released here yet though.
It’s “splash-proof”, not waterproof and I’m sure that anyone who has been caught in one of these torential downpoars will know that EVERYTHING gets wet.
Thanks though, it is a cute phone though… Hmmm, maybe time to go shopping?!
Pixie
[quote=“stragbasher”]I’ve seen a waterproof case for mobile phones at a dive shop in Taiwan, so you can take your phone underwater. Very useful feature, that.[/quote]How do you talk into a phone when you’re underwater ?
That’s something they teach you on the advanced course. You have to sign ‘The Official Scuba Secrets Act’ first, so I’m not allowed to share that information with you or any other strag.
Obviously it wasn’t designed for the Taiwan market, because it didn’t make provision for the cute little dangly that is considered part of the phone in this country. I would have bought one otherwise.
Actually, the real question is “How would Dominoes deliver if you’re underwater?”
Same thing happened to a TV I had that got wet during a move. When these hitchamadoogies get wet, do nothing. Let them dry out. Better yet, take the back of of whatever it is and expose its private parts, and use a hair dryer to dry it out. Then wait a few more hours.
However, this raises the question, why aren’t there waterproof hair dryers?
I can just imagine the famous murder scenes where the person in the bath is killed when the perp throw in a hairdryer.
Victim - “Hahaha, it’s a waterproof model”
or
Perp - “Damn, it must be waterproof!”
Anyway why would you want to dry your hair while standing in the rain or swiming?