Heat, Cold, & Leaving a Cell Phone in the Car

[email protected] wrote:

> If you have any thoughts, opinions, or experiences with this kind of
> thing, I'd be glad to read what you have to say.

Does the manual say anything about extreme temps? I'd say it's best to leave
the phone at room temperature.


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Steve Sobol wrote:
>
> [email protected] wrote:
>
> > If you have any thoughts, opinions, or experiences with this kind of
> > thing, I'd be glad to read what you have to say.
>
> Does the manual say anything about extreme temps? I'd say it's best to leave
> the phone at room temperature.

What temperature is "room temperature?" <g>

Notan

Notan wrote:

>>> If you have any thoughts, opinions, or experiences with this kind of
>>> thing, I'd be glad to read what you have to say.
>> Does the manual say anything about extreme temps? I'd say it's best to leave
>> the phone at room temperature.
>
> What temperature is "room temperature?" <g>

heh. Around 50-70 degrees, I'd guess - in other words, don't leave it in the
car overnight when it's snowing outside, or in the summer when it's 90
degrees outside the car and probably 110 inside.


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Steve Sobol wrote:
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> Notan wrote:
>
> >>> If you have any thoughts, opinions, or experiences with this kind of
> >>> thing, I'd be glad to read what you have to say.
> >> Does the manual say anything about extreme temps? I'd say it's best to leave
> >> the phone at room temperature.
> >
> > What temperature is "room temperature?" <g>
>
> heh. Around 50-70 degrees, I'd guess - in other words, don't leave it in the
> car overnight when it's snowing outside, or in the summer when it's 90
> degrees outside the car and probably 110 inside.

A good rule of thumb is probably, what's comfortable for you is comfortable
for your phone.

Notan

Notan wrote:

> A good rule of thumb is probably, what's comfortable for you is comfortable
> for your phone.

Yeah, except I live in the Mojave Desert, and many people here find 100+
degrees comfortable, or at least not too terribly harsh. They're all insane.

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In <[email protected]> Steve Sobol <[email protected]> writes:

>Notan wrote:

>> A good rule of thumb is probably, what's comfortable for you is comfortable
>> for your phone.

>Yeah, except I live in the Mojave Desert, and many people here find 100+
>degrees comfortable, or at least not too terribly harsh. They're all insane.

Give our regards to Spike and tell him snoopy
and the rest miss him.

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Temperatures inside a closed car in the summer can reach 180F.

That said, we leave multiple cell phones in multiple cars year round,
and have never had problems (We live in Ohio; we get 90 degree
temperature days, but we also get -5F days).

I think a bigger concern with your idea is leaving the charger on all
the time. While I don't think that will hurt the phone, I do think it
will kill the battery prematurely.


[email protected] wrote:

> Hello all:
>
> I would like to leave a cell phone in my car permanently. I have run a
> (cig lighter) charger cable into the glove box of the car, and I just
> leave the cell phone plugged in. It only charges when I'm driving.
>
> So far, I haven't had any problems doing this, but I've only been doing
> it for a few weeks.
>
> My question is, does anyone know if the temperature changes inside the
> car are likely to damage the cell phone over time?
>
> I live in northern California, USA (near Berkeley/San Francisco), and
> the outside temperature throughout the year probably ranges from 40
> degrees F (about 4 degrees C) to 90 degrees F (about 32 degrees C). I
> suspect the temperature in the car gets over 100 degrees F (about 37
> degrees C) at times, though only for a few hours during the hottest
> part of a summer day.
>
> If you have any thoughts, opinions, or experiences with this kind of
> thing, I'd be glad to read what you have to say.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
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