Bangalore: People carry their smartphones everywhere. But there are some places where your costliest smartphone will not be very safe like beaches, swimming pools and bathrooms. Over thousands of smartphones every year become malfunctioned due to accidental contact with water. Samsung and Apple are set to remove this water phobia from smartphones with a technology named HzO in their new Samsung Galaxy S3 and iPhone 5 respectively.
This technology is developed by ZAGG and was introduced at Consumer Electronics Show 2012 at Las Vegas. The company also demonstrated this HzO technology using an iPhone dunking into water. According to pocket-lint, this HzO technology creates a nano-scale film barrier which has special water repelling properties once applied inside the smartphone during the manufacturing process.
The company is in a process of signing deals with major smartphone manufacturer and headphone makers. ”We showed the Samsung Chairman the technology with a Samsung Galaxy S that we had coated with HzO and he couldn’t believe his eyes,” HzO spokesperson told Pocket-Lint.
Till now all these are theories, and the real application of this technology will be revealed only after the release of Galaxy S3 and iPhone 5, but for this we have wait a little longer than MWC.
