Now the million-dollar question. Does the phone still work after being in the snow? That's very cool if it works. Jerry Mader
Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 16, 2016, at 11:48 AM, Richard Turner <richardturne...@outlook.com> > wrote: > > Hi Sieghard, > > If the phone works, you should send the story to all the news outlets and > Apple. That would top even the most outlandish Timex watch story. > > Richard > > > From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of > Sieghard Weitzel > Sent: Saturday, April 16, 2016 8:34 AM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: The story continues... Long lost iPhone 6S has finally resurfaced > after snow melt > > Hi, > > just wanted to let everybody know that my brother finally found my iPhone 6S > yesterday. I lost it during a walk on December 22. It was just off to the > side a bit in a place where we spent probably a whole hour looking back then. > My brother said now that the snow and ice is gone he saw it almost right away > when he went back there. > From the outside the iPhone is in perfect condition, not a scratch on it. Of > course after 4 months outside in the snow with temperatures as low as -30 > Celsius and going through the snow melt and a few rain showers since it is > pretty unlikely that the phone is still working. I guess one good thing is > that the battery should be deader than dead and there is definitely no > electricity remaining. At this point I told my brother to just stick it in a > ziplock bag filled with rice so that any moisture is absorbed. They live a > long way from any town on a cattle ranch in northern British Columbia so it > will not be until next Tuesday that somebody gets to a post office and at > that point my Mom will send it back to me. By the time I receive it (most > likely next Friday) it will have been in rice for a week and I guess I’ll > just plug it in and see what happens. If it is completely dead I should still > be able to get a new phone from Apple with my Apple Care Plus plan even if I > have to pay whatever fee they now charge, I think it’s $130 or $160 or > something like that here in Canada. Still worthwhile for getting another new > iPhone 6S 64 Gb. > > > Regards, > Sieghard > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - > you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- > The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - > you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
