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Not the most pleasant situation. But reading makes the temperature more bearable. |
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How much of Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands have air conditioning generally available? There wasn't much when I lived there. A few restaurants and indoor shopping places. Africa? Central America? Yet these places do have radio, television, and cell phones. And had consumer electronics decades ago when I lived there. |
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Even without a/c most radios and televisions will not be subjected to the direct sun. So they won't get the extreme heat only the ambient heat. So you are telling me that I could take my cell phone outside tomorrow in the direct sunlight and leave it on for an hour and nothing will happen to it. It will only be 100 here tomorrow. And just for your information my house inside was 90 degrees when my a/c went out.. All my electronic stuff is fine but I dang sure didn't put them in the sun. Though I did leave the tv off because I didn't want anymore heat in the house. I was going to say something about central America but then I realized I was too far north. I was thinking of the equator. Last edited by Cinisajoy; 07-15-2016 at 11:13 PM. |
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07-16-2016, 01:16 PM | #20 | |
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I am telling you outright that in the early nineteen eighties, you could take a pocket cassette player or a boom box sold in Japan and run around in the jungles and on the beaches in Okinawa or in the Philippines all day long if you carried enough batteries. Those also units functioned in the California desert until the temperatures climbed into the hundred and teens. Cell phones back then did not yet have an infrastructure to make them useful to people in the areas I was in. I am willing to bet that while the equipment you buy won't do that, the equipment sold at say...the base exchange in Subic Bay or Yokosuka will. |
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FWIW, I regularly use my Kindle in Egypt in temperatures of 40+C and it works absolutely fine.
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Outside?
How do you keep it from getting too hot to hold? |
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Yes, outside . I have a leather cover for it which never gets uncomfortably hot. 40C certainly isn't anything approaching too hot to hold.
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I know if I lay my phone or my kindle down for even 5 minutes out in the sun, they get way hot in a hurry. Maybe Texas has a hotter sun. Are you in the direct sun? Or are you in the shade? The OP said in direct sun. Hey OP, apparently anything will work in direct sunlight. Just lay it down and leave it in the sun. The two that have been in the middle east have said it works. |
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If you read under an umbrella, your ereader should be fine. While the heat is definitely a problem, the direct sunlight is worse. If it is too hot, it won't turn on or will just switch off. Direct sunlight potentially will ruin it. Cousin tested her ereader recently while traveling and it worked fine in 105F. (how she stands this heat is beyond me).
From Amazon. "Operating temperature: 32°F to 95°F (0°C to 35°C). Storage temperature: 14°F to 113°F (-10°C to 45°C)." "Charge the battery only in temperatures that range from 32°F to 95°F (0°C to 35°C)." Last edited by Tarana; 07-16-2016 at 07:09 PM. |
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Hi everyone,
Thanks to all for your answers ! As for now I can consider that: -apart from one very old model Sony PRS500 no E-Book Reader has no mini/micro USB -latest models may behave better than older ones under direct sunlight (I may have to inquire about the presence of a transparent IR blocking filter in the device before buying) a+,=) -=Finiderire=- P.S. To protect your body at 100 F 1) take a bath into the Mediterranean sea 2) spray sun shield with high UV protection on your skin 3) lay on the beach 4) read (and drink water) |
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