just washed my flagship android phone in the damn washing machine

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How is anyone away from their phone long enough to inadvertently put it in a washing machine and turn said washing machine on?

It's 2015.
 
blame space said:
Well guys it finally happened. Finally washed my damn phone in the washing machine. Put a load of laundry in the washing machine and my brand new Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge was in my jeans pocket. Feeling pretty bummed guys. Wouldn't even be that bad but the guy at Verizon Wireless talked me into trading in my Samsung Galaxy Note II when I got the new one so I don't have any damn cell phone at all now. I feel like a real bonehead.

It was fully submerged in the washing machine for at least a couple of minutes before I realized what had happened, so it didn't go through a full cycle or anything. It was off when I fished it out, and I've kept it off since then. I shaked it around and used a hair dryer and vacuumed it and now it's sitting in a plastic bag full of cat litter.

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Just give it to me straight, guys. What are my odds here? Is there anything else i can do? ��
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You don't have to resort to these hijinks to get our attention (or for updates to your tags). This isn't high school anymore.

Oh wait, it probably still is!

don't ask what hijinks are in your next post
 
jwk94 said:
I don't get it.
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I don't like holding this phone, and I can't overstate how much that informs the experience of using it. It makes an awful first impression, slippery and slimy and simply unpleasant in your hand. My white review unit is completely smooth and glossy, with a subtle checkered pattern that looks textured but is neither grippy nor textured anywhere on its body. Even the silver band around the sides, which is obviously supposed to look like metal, is plastic. Everyone I showed the GS4 to frowned and wrinkled their nose as if it smelled bad, before rubbing their fingers on the back of the phone and then handing it back to me — that's the opposite of the standard reaction to HTC’s One, which everyone wants to ogle and hold. That's going to be a huge problem for Samsung, because the GS4 and One are likely to be next to each other on store shelves, and at least on first impression there's absolutely no contest between the two.

It's a shame, too, because Samsung didn’t have to do it this way. The company made tradeoffs for a removable battery and a slightly thinner body, but I’m not sure those are features worth sacrificing so much for in 2013. It's not all bad: the GS4 is thin and light, and feels durable despite its cheap materials. It's also an improvement over the S III, thanks to slightly flatter edges and shrunken bezels. The port layout is smart: power button on the right, volume on the left, headphone jack up top and Micro USB on the bottom, with the SIM card, microSD slot, and battery accessible when you peel off the removable back. I’m thrilled the GS4 has a physical home button, with capacitive Back and Menu keys on either side. It's very comfortable for such a large phone, but I can't get over the gross feeling I get holding it.

Samsung's proven repeatedly that people don't care about build quality, or at least will overlook it in favor of features and performance, but the landscape's different now. The HTC One is a powerful, feature-rich device that is also beautiful and classy, while Samsung's handset feels like an overpowered children’s toy. Samsung's feature list has to be awfully long to overcome that — and it is, but I'll get there.
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From The Verge's review of the S4.

General consensus agrees with this--people are starting to hate plastic after having to deal with poorly designed plastic phones for years. I'm in the group that's fine with plastic as long as it's matte/milled out, but both LG and previous Samsung phones use the glossy, cheap feeling kind.
 
KHlover said:
Ahahahaha

OT: If it makes you feel better blamespace, "waterproof" phones probably also wouldn't have survived this. They are designed to be submerged in water, not to be thrown around in it like a ragdoll :P
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It wasn't in for very long. The sony line of phones would have definitely made it through. I think people have tested them through a full wash cycle and they came out fine.
 
mackattk said:
It wasn't in for very long. The sony line of phones would have definitely made it through. I think people have tested them through a full wash cycle and they came out fine.
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Wait... So I can take my Xperia Z3 to the beach and take pics in the water with no problems?
 
Went past a Samsung store the other day, they were selling the S6 Edge for £750 (~$1100).

How the hell could you accidentally put something so expensive in a washing machine? =|
 
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