@digitalexis: it looks as though they are giving it a "water test" but it seems half-assed to me so it sorta is a little pointless

Itspeat!

What exacly is the point of that?

digitalexis

@tucker: Nah, I think his next test would be to ingest the phone, poop it and then check the signal strength and battery life.

johnnyabnormal

What!? Seriously. Talk about a test that doesn't reflect normal usage. The most important test for a cell phone's durability is THE DROP. Drop it on different materials (from carpet to concrete, etc) from multiple heights and angles/spin.

johnnyabnormal

right after this test that guy took a dump in the sink

tucker

@OMG! Ponies!: Woosy.

shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog

@OMG! Ponies!: for'real, thats a good rule, i have to agree...

and are kitchen sinks to difficult to find nowadays or somehing? they also have moving water and a reservoir has the ability to be filled deep enough to submerge a phone...oh well whatever strikes your fancy, i suppose

Itspeat!

The Toilet Rule : If you drop your phone in the toilet, even if it works, for all intents and purposes, it's broken.

OMG! Ponies!

@itchytooth: Exactly.

SuperCollider

That was a pretty quick test. I would like to see it 10 minutes later to see if moisture got behind the screen.

itchytooth

@tucker: What's the difference between Shanty Irish and Lace Curtain Irish?

Lace curtain Irish move the dishes before pissing in the sink.

OMG! Ponies!

@digitalexis: i think he just needed an excuse to stick his hand in the toilet and flush... don't act like you never thought of it ;-)

giyad

German toilets! Schnitzel plunkin!

Noobs-R-Us

"Nowhere in the specs of the Sony Ericsson C720 does it say"
not c720 it's c702 w00t spotted an erorr

shad0w

"your cellphone smells kinda funny"

Bokusatsu_Tenshi

@OMG! Ponies!: i have no idea what that means, but it's very funny.

tucker

Shanty Irish were piss-poor Irish immigrants. They're the ones who got deported or starved out of Ireland in the 19th Century. The name comes from the shanty towns in which they lived.

Lace Curtain Irish were usually not much better off, and usually not at all. Nevertheless, they thought they were better than the Shanty Irish. The legend is that they'd hang lace curtains in the windows because they thought themselves fancy.

Shanty Irish has a bit of working-class pride to it; lace curtain Irish does not.

The joke is that the lace curtain Irish thought they were so much better from their countrymen when, in reality, they were in the same squalid conditions. It mocks those with delusions of grandeur who sneer at their (often low-class) peers.

If you ever find yourself dating an Irish girl and want to impress her father, tell the joke after ordering a "Half-and-Half" with a Jameson on the side.

OMG! Ponies!

I prefer using urine in my tests, but that's just me. "Challenge the conventional until you twist it into raw genius."

SinAmos

I wonder why this isn't an advertised feature...

zed0

@zed0: it isnt advertised because they knew some idiot would try it by theirself

Charging_Mooses

@OMG! Ponies!: That was quite a well written and educational explanation of a very simple joke. Thanks for sharing... :)

SgtMac02

This wasn't that disgusting: you made it sound like the guy whizzed all over the phone before flushing it.

frndlybnny

uh, you couldn't find a sink to do the same thing. I'll be more impressed if it flushed down and was retrieved at the waste water treatment plant working!

trailingedge

@OMG! Ponies!: No, the tolilet rule is, if you drop your phone in the toilet, sell it on ebay.

winkydink

@OMG! Ponies!: the Irish were never deported, they where economic emigrants. And they may have been in "shanty towns" in cities such as new york but due to a famine at home during the mid to late 18th century they were better off living in the states, england and austrailia amoung other places (yes it wasn't just the states!). This is the popuation of Ireland from 1700-2000 ([tinyurl.com]) Note: this is the entire island counting the republic and northen ireland as one. The sharp change in population would consist of both emigration and deaths but i suspect the majority is emigration. And now you know why there is so much irish decent around the world.

On a side note, there was an additional mass emigration during the 1980's but that was due to a recession but this was on a much smaller scale. Maybe up to 500,000 rather then millions.

irishgandalf

Oh, it's been done before with the Samsung N400 and the same test. On a binging night a few years ago when I called my mum at 1AM while taking a tinkle the phone plummeted into the yellow abyss. I was mortified as I have just got a number from a gal that night. But, after a night of drying the phone worked fine the next morning ...

remigoose