James,
Someone may correct me but I believe those dots are simply to indicate that
the phone has been in contact with water, not whether it works or not. It
stops you taking your phone for a swim and then going down to the carrier a
week later and saying "I was just pressing a button and it stopped working.
Can I have a new one?"
Martyn
"James John McGuire" <jamesmc9999@dada-dada-da.com> wrote on 07/01/2004
19:45:42:
> As a follow-up to my own question. I guess for newer phones, the battery
> and the battery inset will have some 'dots', that have a checkerboard
> coloring. It seems that if one of the dots becomes a solid color (alas,
as
> in my case) it is indeed toast. This info is from a Japanese co-worker,
so
> some things may be lost in translation.
>
> Living and learning the hard way...
>
> James
Received on Thu Jul 1 15:33:11 2004