Pixi survives 45 minutes at 450 degrees, makes up for sissy name 36
Thu, 24 Mar 2011 5:19 pm EDT
You think an iPhone landing at just the right angle at just the right spot after falling out of a plane at 1000 feet is tough? All that phone had to do was fall and get lucky. Try sitting in a 450 degree oven for 45 minutes and living to tweet another day. That’s endurance, and apparently it has happened - and it happened to a Palm Pixi. In response to the skydiving iPhone, The Consumerist reader Jim wrote in to tell the story of his wife’s baked Pixi:
My wife was cooking last month. She set the oven to 450 degrees. When that temperature was reached, she inserted a baking sheet with the food she had prepared. After 45 minutes, she opened the oven and found her Palm Pixi phone in the oven just inside the door. It had apparently fallen out of her pocket as she bent down to insert the food into the oven.
She immediately grabbed the phone and when it had cooled enough, she removed the battery, which was distorted by the heat. Figuring she had nothing to lose, she placed a spare battery into the phone. It immediately came to life and has not given her a problem since.
Lesson one: Don’t put your phone in a shirt pocket when you’re going to be bending over, especially over something like an oven.
Lesson two: Don’t mess with the Pixi. It lives in fire.
Source: The Consumerist
36 Comments
hi all,
While reading this post all I can say is:
DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME"! LOL!
take care,
Jay
Sweet! I knew this phone is perfect for my wife.
You can't do this with an iPhone, non removable battery FTL!
Don't believe it.
450F = 230°C
Another location not to have a phone in a shirt pocket would be an attic where there are chases to lower floors...
And then the screen is horribly cracked, but everything else works fine.
I feel like HP should go through a series of massive tests like this for an ad campaign or something. Or at least a fan should do some fun videos. That's awesome.
Yeah, but how did it taste?
i dropped one of my phones in the toilet once. darn then still works today. like 7 years later. not that i use it.
This story may/may not be true. But, I know that photo isn't really part of the story. Otherwise those cookies would burnt, after 45min on 450.
Highly doubt anyone cooks cookies at 450 for 45 minutes. Unless they're meat cookies.
Nowhere does it say she was cooking cookies...
Wow. That's so weird because I thought she had cooked cookies too. Picture is very misleading.
Anyway, this "article" just shows how desperate PreCentral is for some webOS news. I'm sad about webOS; I highly doubt it will go anywhere unless HP puts a lot more resources into developing phones and better software. I know they are making an effort but it's a half-hearted one. They basically just let the phone division,(aka Palm) keep doing what they've been doing before the buyout. Please make webOS succeed HP, PLEASE!!
TF2 Medic voice: "Everyone, I am on fire!"
My father's phone looks very battered because he always puts it in the pocket of his shirt. :D It always falls out ^^
I think that's too unlikely to happen. That's the temperature that bakes our cakes! Even if it is true, I'd still recommend a pre than a pixi.
but will it blend?
Doesn't Tollhouse say to cook 350 for 10-12 minuntes. What kind of cookie takes 45 minutes to cook...? My girlfriend made a sheet cookie that only took 25 minutes to fully cook.
you know this sounds incredible until you realize one thing, no one bakes cookies at 450 degrees and if they do for no longer than maybe 12 minutes. this sounds too absurd to be true until that poster also puts up the recipe for the rest of us to try it. no offense but this just is NOT believable anyone who has baked a cookie after they think about it will know what i mean lol unless you like cindereded hockey pucks that is
My daughter dropped her's in a deep puddle. Killed it flat. It would at best start "palm", shut off, and do it again. I literally just got done installing a new screen and keyboard. Cleaned all connections on the mb, and comm board. Took 3 Dr.'s to take but it is like brand new now. I wrote it off about 12 times. Of course that was 4.5 hrs of labor. Oh it is oc'ed now as well! :)
Derr.. herpity derp... "No one bakes cookies for 45 minutes".
***RTFA*** people. Jeez!
Not only is she too dumb to keep her phone out of the oven, she can't even bake cookies. I'd divorce her.
The cookies is just a photoshop! It wasn't F'n cookies! Pick apart if the thing would melt, but please get off the damn cookies!
It is actually pretty cool. It didn't really survive the market, but held its own in the oven. Okay, so not really that cool at all. Slow news day?
Does it have apps? What the heck is this story? Really nothing to talk about except for someone's idiotic wife? Geez.
Well, it stands here to tell us that the pixi hardware isn't as rubbish as it looks and feels. So i find some value in it.
A story this good should have actual pictures
Who puts green stuff in peanut butter cookies?
i think their sugar cookies with m&m's in them
i was at an outside party last summer. later that night i was talking on it, i had i resting between my cheek and my shoulder. it slipped out and fell into my beer. in a desperate attempted to dry it i rested it on a log a few feet from the fire. a few minutes later some drunk dude threw the log that my phone was on in the fire. i noticed it just in time and fished the phone out with a stick.... surprisingly my pre turned on the next day and navigated me home. the accelerometer and speaker didnt work and the back was all melted but hey, it withstood the punishment.
I guess palm will have to make an oven damage sensor to go along with the water damage sensor.
A webOS oven would have automatically shut off when it detected the Pixi.
love the title, it is such a sissy name!
with a webOS oven the pixi would activate Touch-To-Share and automatically turn off the oven, page the owner with location, and turn on the oven light. TTS is a powerful thing.
Worst excuse for a story ever. Wow... pathetic. And what a stupid stupid woman.