I was working on the rooftop at work yesterday and left my Blackberry phone on the roof on top of one of the air conditioners, keyboard facing up. And it rained.

Opened it up just now and cleaned the connections for battery and sim card twice, charged it up, and managed to get it working. I'm impressed! Probably helped that the battery was close to dead, and probably died and shut down before it got wet.

A few years ago I left a Nextel phone in my pocket and we had a double kegger party with a slip-n-slide set up in the backyard. I opened the phone up later, dried it out, and it worked too.

At the same party a friend put her clothes in the dryer to dry them off afterwards, and her AT&T phone was in the pocket. It worked afterwards too!


What's the worst you've done?

They used to have a radio contest where you called in and put your phone in the dryer and turned it on, and if it stayed connected for a certain amount of time, you won a prize.

I'd like to play, but I would have to get a cell phone first.

My wife dropped her cell phone in the pool last summer. I took it apart and used and hair dryer on it, then put it in a plastic bag with some of those drying salts from a pill bottle and it dried out well.

I dropped my old nextel cell phone off a motorcycle doing about 20 mph down the side street. It slid for a bit but worked just fine after that. Those things were indestructible.

The AT&T phones I've had recently are all junk and POS.

Matthew

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I am all with that. I darn near hate them because people are so rude with them. Who the hell they have to chat with 24/7 is beyond me. I have one and it lives in the storage compt in the vette for emergencies only.

Mine took a swim in the (clean) toilet and survived. It took another swim in the ocean recently while we were on vacation. I was stepping off the boat and I heard kahplunk. This it did not survive but I did retreive it from it's shallow grave. I bought a duplicate of my phone off ebay for $28.00, put in the sim card and I was as good as gold. Still had all my important #s and info plus I got a new phone case and mobile charger and hands free ear peice. To me, I don't like to drive without it. AAA is just a phone call away.( Not that I usually need them.)