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Motorola shows off Razr's Splashguard technology
Now you can make phone calls in the rain
Thu Oct 20 2011, 12:26
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THE FOLKS at Motorola obviously don't trust users with their phones - first the Defy came with all kinds of high-level protection and now the new Razr phone has some fairly clever Splashguard technology to protect it from liquids.
It involves the use of a water repellent coating on all parts of the phone's inner and outer hardware - except the screen, obviously - so the device is protected from low level liquid impact such as rain or a spill from a glass.
Perfect for the office, down the pub, out in the rain or other unseemly activities. µ
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Of course! You want Motorola to divulge it so that Apple could copy it (a la: Altair 8800 to Apple I, LG Prada to iphone, etc.) patent it, then sue Motorola for "blatantly copying it from Apple."
What chemicals are we talking about here? Is this going to be another "but we didn't know it causes cancer!" a few years down the road? This treatment is applied to all of the surfaces that a human would touch. How much of this chemical treatment is absorbed by the skin? Does this chemical combination emit any sort of toxin into the air? Seems to me, this chemical application should be studied a bit before throwing it into the marketplace, and onto our hands and faces.