The best ways to dry out a cell phone
Cell phones and moisture are, to put it in the nicest of terms, sworn mortal enemies. If you can't tell a story where you dropped your phone and it shattered to pieces, chances are you have one where you spilled, splashed, or trickled water on it, or dropped it in a puddle, sink, or pool... or best of all, a toilet.
Folklore and actual science have offered solutions to the problem of the wet cell phone over the last couple of decades, from toasting it gently in the oven to burying it in some rice to buying special drying environments for it. While we’ve had various amounts of success with these different methods, we decided to give them a real, semi-scientific trial run on a few different phones to see how they dealt with a serious immersion scenario.
A few caveats: we used four different phones, one for each drying environment we tested. Obviously, different body designs will take on water differently, but we submerged each one until all the air had appeared to escape from the interior. Likewise, different designs may dry out differently, and water may have an easier time clinging to some nooks and crannies.
