What to do when you wash your mobile handset
News brought to you by Skint Tariffs, providers of price comparison for cheap international calls. Foolish owners of cheap Pay As You Go mobiles who inadvertently toss their Vodafone handsets into the wash along with their ringspun denims have been given advice on how to salvage their property.
Reporting on his own unfortunate phone-washing incident, Dave Taylor of Boulder Daily Camera noted that the first step is to open up the mobile and leave it somewhere warm in the hope that it dries out.
If this doesn't render any joy then Dave suggests taking a look underneath the battery at the Subscriber Identity Module - better known as the simcard.
As cheap simcards are the brains of the handset, it is crucial that the small 25 mm by 16 mm cards are still functioning.
And providing the simcard still functions, money saving phone users can then begin the hunt for a new cheap handset.
Meanwhile, answers suggested on Yahoo! ranged from "buy a new one" to "put [the] battery in a bowl of uncooked rice [as] it will absorb all of the water".
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