Phone Soaked by a Beaker But Still Works

THE BEST START to a sunny Saturday: my super-soaked Nokia E90 woke up this morning and it still works! I wasn't so sure yesterday afternoon after discovering the phone had taken a bath while placed next to a toddler's water beaker in the back of the car. Pressing any key caused the keystroke to bounce. The main screen just rolled a series of test pattern like an untuned television set. Opening any in-coming text sent two or three blank replies to the sender. Launching any data applications resulted in multiple, simultaneous attempts to contact a network, all blocking each other. I rotated the phone open and closed several times and water dripped out of the main hinge. I stood the phone upright and soaked a paper napkin. So I turned the thing off for the evening and planned to put it into my gadget drawer because it had given me more than two years of faithful service. Yet when I powered it up a few minutes ago, it worked! I don't think I'd get the same result with my iPhone.

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