Water-Resistant Smartphone Technologies

Quanqing Yu; Rui Xiong; Chuan Li; Michael G. Pecht

doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2904654

Water-Resistant Smartphone Technologies

Quanqing Yu^*
, Rui Xiong
, Chuan Li
, Michael G. Pecht

^*Corresponding author for this work

School of Mechanical Engineering

University of Maryland, College Park
Beijing Institute of Technology
Chongqing Technology and Business University

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Abstract

Smartphone manufacturers have begun to market their products as water-resistant to gain market share. However, many consumers report that these smartphones are not actually waterproof as many of the advertisements suggest, and water damage is not included in the warranty policy. To understand how companies are attempting to protect their smartphones against water damage, this paper evaluates three popular smartphones (iPhone 7 Plus, Samsung S7 Edge, and Huawei P9 Lite). The phones were disassembled to assess the use of gaskets, glues, and other adhesives and emerging high-end technologies including water-resistant coatings and breathable fabric membranes. In addition, failure causes of water-resistant smartphones are discussed in terms of limitations of the ingress protection tests within the International Electrotechnical Commission 60529 standard. Warranty issues are then presented and recommendations are given.

Original language	English
Article number	8671469
Pages (from-to)	42757-42773
Number of pages	17
Journal	IEEE Access
Volume	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2904654
Publication status	Published - 2019

Keywords

IEC 60529 standard
IP code
Smartphone
water resistance
waterproof

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