I find it hard to believe that reducing the air pressure a little bit around a phone would cause the screen to crack. The phones aren't air-tight to begin with, so why would the change in air pressure do them any harm? I've flown literally many dozens of times with several different phones and never once had this happen myself.
Also, realize that you're *losing* air pressure when you gain altitude, even in pressurized cabins (they only compensate so much) only to recover it when you get back down to ground (or below 8,000 feet). Wikipedia has a good article on it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabin_pressure Instead, I'd suggest that it wasn't the air pressure change that did in the screen (the phone shouldn't care since I doubt there's any trapped air inside it), but someone's foot or other heavy object if the phone was in a bag on the floor, or being slammed into in an overhead compartment, that cracked it. On 8/10/05, Alli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anything is possible. I've never heard of it happening, and > I've flown all over without it happening to me. Then again, > this is the first I've heard of ordinary phones cracking > from flying. > > Karen wrote: > > Hey, > > > > Over the last month two friends of mine have had the screens on their cell > > phones crack when flying. Both were told that the damage wasn't covered > > under warranty and that they should have been aware that the "pressure" can > > cause screen breakage. One was a Samsung and the other an LG. Could that > > happen to a Treo? > > > > Kari > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > -- http://www.GearBits.com -- Tech. Culture. Ideas. Opinions. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> <font face=arial size=-1><a href="http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=12h50uds6/M=362329.6886308.7839368.1510227/D=groups/S=1707367858:TM/Y=YAHOO/EXP=1123709736/A=2894321/R=0/SIG=11dvsfulr/*http://youthnoise.com/page.php?page_id=1992 ">Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back!</a>.</font> --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/treo/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
