Awesome Popular Mechanics Cold Temperature Phone Torture Testing

It doesn’t get much below 65 F where I live these days. But, I lived through a couple of winters that hit-50 F in days of old. So, I found this article in Popular Mechanics (of all places) fascinating!

Does Cold Weather Injure Cell Phones? Abusive Lab Test

Popular Mechanics went to Environ Laboratories in Minneapolis to torture a group of poor defenseless phones in a temperature controlled chamber capable of reaching -100 F (Brr!). Their findings might be a useful guideline for anyone traveling to (or living in) sub-zero temperatures.

10 F : Slight screen dimming
-10 F: Some battery problems
-20 F: Some phone shut down
-30 F: Serious battery and LCD problems
-40 to -55 F (seriously cold!): All phone shut down

But the, um, “good” folks at Popular Mechanics had “one more thing” to try. The video below was taken by a Motorola Krzr as it was dunked in liquid nitrogen (-314.7 F)…

YouTube video courtesy of popmechshow

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