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ajl said:

bsimpsen said:

The most magical aspect of this story is the ability of a cellular signal to penetrate 30 feet of saltwater.

And what about "Hearsey scrolled through the contacts"? So he found an unlocked iPhone lying underwater at 30 feet and with signal field...

Not everyone uses a passcode.

I just don't see how it's possible that the iPhone could pick up a usable cellular signal at 30 below the surface in sea water. The signal attenuation at high frequencies like GSM in salt water is significant. For the phone to talk back to the tower would require a lot more power than the battery life indicated. I suspect that the notification was from something other than a recent message.

This highly technical paper agrees with what I know (and I'm a EE):
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4934316/

tallest skil said:

Wait… why can’t I quote myself?

Devices do not charge, confirmed.

Leaving a device for more than an hour and then plugging it in does not activate charging. This is an all-Apple environment. iPhone 6 plugged into a 27” Cinema Display with an Apple Lighting cable, plugged into a 2009 Mac Pro. Only after it’s unlocked does the charging *ping* sound and the battery icon turn green.

I wonder if this might have the unintended consequence of essentially bricking your iPhone? Imagine a situation where the port is locked out and then the battery dies. Plug the thing in to get it alive again only to have the phone not accept power and the owner cannot unlock it because there is no longer a way to do so without iOS starting up. I would assume that Apple tested for this though...

fastasleep said:

Next we'll see a hexacore 15" I hope.

Do these benchmarks generally get submitted by accident, or are they purposely seeded for some marketing reason?

Or are ones like this usually falsified so forums like this can get whipped into a frenzy?

KITA said:

Referencing old Surface failures, or the Zune, is just silly at this point. They're well past that stage.

No they aren't past their failures. I'm seeing a big hardware failure rate at work with the Surface Pro 4 model, which is a very recent model.