It's the next frontier for mobile devices, and it's just in time for beach season: underwater smartphones.
The just-released Samsung Galaxy S4 Active is the first high-end smartphone available in the U.S. that works underwater. Priced at $200 with a two-year contract from AT&T, the Active may just spawn a legion of sea-faring technology if it's marketed well.
Think of it as the Galaxy S4's underwater twin. The only physical differences between the Active and the regular S4 is that the Active is thicker, and the three main buttons that navigate to the menu, homescreen and backward are raised rather than part of the touchscreen.
The Active will soon have competition from Sony, which is due to release its own water-friendly smartphone, the Xperia Z, sometime this summer.
Since we're all used to treating our smartphones like china plates and arming them with rugged covers, I found there's a psychological barrier to actually dipping a $200 piece of technology into a bowl of water. But don't worry, you're not gonna kill it.
To work the camera in water, simply open the camera and select "aqua mode." That turns your volume rocker into a shutter button. The 8-megapixel camera takes clear underwater photos. And if watching HD videos and listening to music in the shower is your thing, you'll be pleasantly surprised by those features as well.
Samsung says the phone can withstand 30 minutes in three feet of water. Though you can't make calls while submerged, phone calls don't interrupt while under water. So, you could conceivably begin a conversation, jump into a pool with the phone in your hand and then keep talking to that person when you come up for air.
The speakerphone works surprisingly well while submerged. But because the touchscreen becomes disabled, the phone has to be mostly dry to actually make the call.
My only regret with Samsung's latest offering is that I conducted this little experiment in front of my 21-month-old son. He's now got an unfortunate desire to replicate what he saw with my iPhone 5. It's probably just a matter of time before I find it at the bottom of the toilet bowl. I may have no choice but to invest in the Active after all … and maybe that was Samsung's plan all along.
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