Vivo is a Chinese smartphone manufacturing company which started its business in India in 2015 by inaugurating first manufacturing unit in Greater Noida. Vivo launched their first two smartphones called Vivo V1 and Vivo V1 Max at the same time and now after 4 years of success in India, Vivo has launched their new Smartphone called Vivo V9. In this article, we will find if the Vivo V9 Waterproof or not.
Before talking about Vivo V9 waterproofing or water resistance, let’s have a look at some important to know things
Vivo V9 Specifications
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What is a Waterproof smartphone?
A smartphone that has crossed waterproofing process which makes a smartphone surface or body to be unaffected by water in any condition is called a waterproof smartphone. The waterproofed smartphones do not get affected by water at all but most of the smartphones are water resistant not waterproof.
What is Water Resistant smartphone?
A Water-resistant smartphone is a smartphone which does not get affected by the water in some conditions but, not all conditions. Water resistant smartphone can protect themselves from water under some accidental conditions but they can get affected by water. So it is recommended to keep a water-resistant smartphone away from water. These smartphones are made to save themselves from water under some conditions but, not all conditions.
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What are IP Ratings on Smartphones?
IP stands for Ingress Protection. IP is defined by the international standards of EN60529. These Standards are used to define the levels of sealing effectiveness of electrical enclosure against intrusion from foreign bodies such as water and dust. IP Ratings specifies the water and dust resistant capacity of a smartphone. We can know that how well our smartphone can survive water and dust.
IP Rating consists of letters IP followed by two digit numbers. For example – IP67.
Here in the example, first number 6 stands for solid and 7 stands for liquid.
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Is Vivo V9 Waterproof smartphone or not?
Now if you have understood everything above then you are completely able to understand whether Vivo V9 is water resistant/waterproof or not?
Well, we unboxed Vivo V9 and we didn’t find any IP Rating mentioned on the box. They didn’t even advertise anything about its IP Rating so we can simply say that this smartphone isn’t a water-resistant or waterproof smartphone. Although we tested the device by dropping water on it and the smartphone survived. So we think that the smartphone can survive some drops of water but this doesn’t mean that the smartphone is water resistant. You will not get any warranty if your Vivo V9 is water damaged so we recommend you to keep your Vivo V9 away from water.
Conclusion
Vivo V9 isn’t a waterproof or water-resistant smartphone so keep it away from water if you want to get the warranty. Here is a quick guide to troubleshooting the water damaged Vivo smartphone.
i have drop v9 into a bucket full of water with v9 swicth on.it survive in water and the phone is still good.