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Waterproof wifi appliance is hard to get

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    Michael Pauli
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    Why is it that it is so difficult to get a waterproof tablet/phone that one can use while in the pool? I travel a lot around equator and enjoy being in the pool most of the time working online og talking into the phone. I have washed away 3 cellphones now.

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      Why is it that it is so difficult to get a waterproof tablet/phone that one can use while in the pool? I travel a lot around equator and enjoy being in the pool most of the time working online og talking into the phone. I have washed away 3 cellphones now.

      Michael Pauli

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      Difficult? They are pretty easy to find: http://www.sonymobile.com/gb/products/phones/xperia-z1-compact/?gclid=Cj0KEQjwyrqgBRDepamt-LWA2oABEiQAV7nwwMozl7r5EQUrYQyt_b9cu8jB_itrUXW4Pfr_J301JawaAnHi8P8HAQ[^] And http://www.tuffphones.co.uk/waterproof-mobile-phones.html[^] And not as expensive as I had assumed they might be...

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        Why is it that it is so difficult to get a waterproof tablet/phone that one can use while in the pool? I travel a lot around equator and enjoy being in the pool most of the time working online og talking into the phone. I have washed away 3 cellphones now.

        Michael Pauli

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        1st world problem...

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          Why is it that it is so difficult to get a waterproof tablet/phone that one can use while in the pool? I travel a lot around equator and enjoy being in the pool most of the time working online og talking into the phone. I have washed away 3 cellphones now.

          Michael Pauli

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          http://www.tuffphones.co.uk/waterproof-mobile-phones.html

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            Difficult? They are pretty easy to find: http://www.sonymobile.com/gb/products/phones/xperia-z1-compact/?gclid=Cj0KEQjwyrqgBRDepamt-LWA2oABEiQAV7nwwMozl7r5EQUrYQyt_b9cu8jB_itrUXW4Pfr_J301JawaAnHi8P8HAQ[^] And http://www.tuffphones.co.uk/waterproof-mobile-phones.html[^] And not as expensive as I had assumed they might be...

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            Thank you. At first glance both links seems like phones only. No laptops and no lightweight tablets as far as I can see. That makes programming while floating around on my inflateable beach toy or madress both difficult and expensive in case of wetting it. That was what I was mostly getting at in the first place. You have to have a certain technique to get up without splashing water all over the Lenovo keyboard - this is really difficult! I know it sounds a little silly picturing this, but it's a real pain i the butt in a 100 degree fahrenheit environment.

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              Thank you. At first glance both links seems like phones only. No laptops and no lightweight tablets as far as I can see. That makes programming while floating around on my inflateable beach toy or madress both difficult and expensive in case of wetting it. That was what I was mostly getting at in the first place. You have to have a certain technique to get up without splashing water all over the Lenovo keyboard - this is really difficult! I know it sounds a little silly picturing this, but it's a real pain i the butt in a 100 degree fahrenheit environment.

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              Um...Sony do 8 and 10 inch IP58 tablets: http://www.sony.co.uk/electronics/xperia-tablets/t/xperia-tablet-z[^]

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                Thank you. At first glance both links seems like phones only. No laptops and no lightweight tablets as far as I can see. That makes programming while floating around on my inflateable beach toy or madress both difficult and expensive in case of wetting it. That was what I was mostly getting at in the first place. You have to have a certain technique to get up without splashing water all over the Lenovo keyboard - this is really difficult! I know it sounds a little silly picturing this, but it's a real pain i the butt in a 100 degree fahrenheit environment.

                Michael Pauli

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                If you want laptops look at Panasonic Tough Books[^] or Dell's ruggedized Lattiude[^] series; and then decide it's cheaper to just drown a laptop once a year or so. :doh:

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                  Why is it that it is so difficult to get a waterproof tablet/phone that one can use while in the pool? I travel a lot around equator and enjoy being in the pool most of the time working online og talking into the phone. I have washed away 3 cellphones now.

                  Michael Pauli

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                  "Plink plink fizz" was a very successful tablet campaign, in the UK, a few years back. Perhaps they're hoping to match the results of that.

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                    If you want laptops look at Panasonic Tough Books[^] or Dell's ruggedized Lattiude[^] series; and then decide it's cheaper to just drown a laptop once a year or so. :doh:

                    Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt

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                    Yaa thanx' that was my conclusion too. Thinking about it it is a little strange that the components inside a normal laptop cant stand the "rain". After all resistors, capasitors etc. are all sealed so what can water possible do to them? If one was folding origami animals I could understand - but the laptop is rock solid to my knowledge - but it stops working after just one trip to the bottom of the pool!

                    Michael Pauli

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