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TL;DR
- A Galaxy S23 Extremely spent 5 hours underwater in a freezing Arctic river and nonetheless labored completely.
- The telephone’s IP68 score doesn’t cowl these circumstances, making the survival extra stunning.
- It follows a current story of a Pixel 8 that endured 4 days in a sizzling tub and got here out unscathed.
Most of us dread dropping our telephones in a puddle or the sink, not to mention an ice-covered Arctic river. However one Samsung Galaxy S23 Extremely simply shrugged it off and powered on like nothing occurred.
In accordance with Samsung Newsroom, Swedish wilderness information Mikael Krekula was out on the frozen Kalix River testing sonar gear when his Galaxy S23 Extremely slipped from his glove and dropped into an ice fishing gap. It plunged round three meters into the freezing water and was trapped beneath the ice for the following 5 hours.
Decided not to surrender, Mikael drilled a number of new holes within the surrounding ice and customary a collection of instruments — together with birch branches, a plastic bag, and finally a summer season fishing internet tied to a stick — to try to fish it out. After hours of effort, he lastly succeeded. To his shock, the telephone powered on instantly, displaying a couple of missed calls as if all the things was completely regular.
Mikael Krekula rescued his Galaxy S23 Extremely from the Arctic river after 5 hours.
The S23 Extremely has an IP68 score, which means it’s formally protected towards mud and may survive in as much as 1.5 meters of freshwater for half-hour. However Arctic circumstances, a higher depth, and 5 hours underwater are approach past what the Galaxy spec sheet guarantees.
It’s not the one telephone that has shaken off the weather not too long ago. Simply a few weeks in the past, a Pixel 8 that spent 4 days submerged in a sizzling tub nonetheless labored simply superb. In each instances, the telephones defied their rankings in fairly excessive circumstances.
For Mikael, whose telephone is a lifeline within the distant Arctic for navigation, translation, and evening pictures, the entire thing was a wake-up name. He’s now added a fishing internet to his winter survival package.