Maine Residents Told to Never Put Their Wet Cell Phones in Rice

When it comes to fun liquids you can drop your phone into in the state of Maine, there are so many to choose from. Sure, you could send it swimming in the turlet as you're yanking your trousers down in preparation to go pee, but we also have slush, rain water, snow and thousands of lakes and ponds to choose from.

But what should you do if your phone takes the forbidden swim? Common logic tells us that we should take our phones and immediately get them into a jar or bowl of rice, right? Well, according to experts, that can actually make things much, much worse.

Fortunately, if you have a newer phone, there's a good chance that your phone is water resistant/proof for a limited amount of time at certain depths. Still though, you want to make sure you get your phone as dry as humanly possible as quickly as humanly possible.

However, experts have recently found that using dry rice to try and dry out your phone is likely to keep your phone wetter, longer. Tech experts agree that if your phone goes belly-up in the drink, do not attempt to turn it on, charge it or see if it works.

Craig Beinecke, co-founder of TekDry, told the USA Today,

"We did a study, and rice was slower to work than just leaving the phone out on the counter. And neither worked fast enough. After about 48 hours in rice, only 13% of the water came out of the phone."

Instead of rice, the USA Today reported that experts claim boiling the water out is the best bet for salvaging your precious communication device. But isn't that counterintuitive to the phone being wet?

Not really.

Tech pros say that the devide needs to be places inside a small air-tight container under vacuum pressure while being boiled at the lowest possible temperature. Unfortunately, most of us don't have vacuum sealers at the ready and the ability to boil at the same time.

That's where tech repair stores come in handy. If you end up getting water damage