While you are not supposed to talk on your phone at the gas station, many people generally don’t turn their phones off, so the potential for the phone to create a life-ending spark is there. The Sprint Motorola i365IS is considered “intrinsically safe,” that is to say that Motorola do not believe that it is capable of “releasing sufficient electrical or thermal energy to ignite fuel and cause a fire or explosion.”
Pricing and features after the jump.
The i365IS is rated as safe for use around flammable gasses, vapors or dust. Features include mil-spec ruggedization, has push-to-talk, onboard GPS, speaker phone, MMS, PTT services including Group Connect, International Direct Connect, and short-range non-cellular Direct TalkSM, and there is Bluetooth. The screen is a puny 130 x 130 pixel affair with 64,000 colors, but the knowledge that your phone is not going to blow you to smithereens in your hazardous location ought to more than make up for that one shortcoming.
Price: The Motorola i365IS is supposedly going to be available for $90 on a two-year plan. [Slashgear]
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3 responses
Feb 10, 2009 at 1:13 am
Mythbusters prooved that mobile phones do not have enough charge to start a fuel fire anyway. Pretty poor claim for a new product considering the myth has already been debunked.
Feb 10, 2009 at 7:51 pm
If a battery can catch fire then it can start a fire.
Feb 10, 2009 at 8:42 pm
Yeah maybe if it was a laptop.
Quote:
Using one’s cell phone while pumping gas/petrol can cause an explosion.
busted
A properly-working cell phone poses almost no danger of igniting gasoline, even when surrounded by gasoline vapor with the optimum fuel-air mix for ignition. The actual risk comes from an electrostatic discharge between a charged driver and the car, often a result of continually getting into and out of the vehicle.
(This myth was revisited in episode 14 and it was busted again.)
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