popularmechanics.com — You know that cold weather can make your cell phone sluggish, or make a fully charged one read low battery. But can cold weather do serious damage to your phone? We subjected six phones to progressively lower temperatures until they stopped working. Then, for good measure, we dunked some of them in liquid nitrogen.
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Closed AccountNov 24, 2009
I'll answer the title without even clicking the article. Cold does not injure electronics, heat does. Where is my engineering degree?
honoredmuleNov 24, 2009
I'd be really surprised if my cheap phone had even minor problems at -20 (Celsius), having used it without issue in such weather many times. The numbers just look like a naturally-selected range in Celsius, so that did confuse me at first.(Also also Canadian)
thegurustudNov 24, 2009
They had to spare apple the embarrassment.Am I kidding? You be the judge!
bootlessjamNov 24, 2009
I'm more worried about my phone getting too hot. In the summer here in Adelaide it gets over 40ºC in the shade, I've never had a phone fail because of it, but my iPhone might not like it.