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An iPhone has been discovered after being lost in a river for ten months.
The phone actually survived ten months underwater and turned on when it was plugged in.
It was also returned to its original owner.
That`s what you call some good build quality.
Imagine if you lost your iPhone in a river and got it back in working condition almost a year later. That`s what happened here.
As reported by the BBC, Owain Davies dropped his iPhone into the River Wye in Cinderford, Gloucestershire (England) in August of last year. Incredibly, ten months later, a man by the name of Miguel Pacheco found the phone while canoeing with his family.
Pacheco hesitantly dried out the phone and, when he plugged it in, it actually turned on and started to charge.
Mr Pacheco spotted `something blue floating in the water` while canoeing with his daughter. After Mr Pacheco, from Drybrook, Gloucestershire, found the phone, he dried it out with an airline and compressor, before placi...
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