Consumer Electronics Test & Development Magazine: Dry Run - Protecting smartphones from water and other ingress

When it comes to ingress protection, among the most vulnerable areas of a smartphone are the openings in the phone’s housing that contain the device’s audio components, particularly the microphone and speakers.

According to Gary Chan, a Gore application engineer for portable electronic venting, Gore’s vents are in more than one billion smartphones, wearables, and other consumer devices around the world.

"The membrane can protect the device from ingress but, in addition, it can equalize the pressure inside the device and the external environment so that it can function properly."

First published in the March 2022 issue Consumer Electronics Test & Development.