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Originally Posted by mcp000
how waterproof are your H2Os ?
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Not at all.
I cut a hole in the back of my H2O
so no way it could be waterproof.
My mother's H2O is not waterproof either. I bought a cheap fintie case for it and when I clipped it in, the front bezel got stuck on top of the clip in one of the corners, the bezel got lifted/raised in that corner by several mm, so most certainly the glue in that corner broke.
Glue is all that makes this device waterproof and water can enter through the smallest gaps (invisible to the naked eye) so the water seal can't possibly be intact anymore.
You have to be extremely careful about the H2O's port cover. It's very flexible; it might look closed properly from the front but if it's slightly bent in the middle it might after all not be closed properly. Once you have water in your device it's history.
There is a german ebook forum / review site, they put the H2O into the freezer (submerged in water -> frozen in a block of ice), the H2O survived this treatment but 6 months later it stopped working. The battery was dead and some contacts were corroded. So either water got in after all or air moisture condensed from the inside.
Electronics and water just don't go together, I wouldn't trust any device to be waterproof. If you want to enjoy your H2O in your pool, I'd also give it additional protection, like a ziploc bag.