Xiaomi has just debunked another old myth regarding smartphones. The company had just recently debunked rumors of toothpaste fixing cracked or scratched displays on phones, and now, has now taken on the thunderstorm rumor.
You probably would’ve heard someone advise you not to use your smartphone or any phone while there is a thunderstorm raging outside. So, the Chinese tech giant took to YouTube again to share a new Shorts video as a part of its #XiaomiAcademy series. This video was titled “Can thunderstorms affect smartphone usage?” Looking at this video, we can see the company setup an experiment that has a Tesla coil (not affiliated with the EV maker and was invented by Nicholas Tesla).
Through these coils, the brand then simulated “lightning” strike, which were then directed towards what could be the Xiaomi 12S smartphone model. There is a video running on the device despite the electricity hitting the handset. It also saw no visible impacts on its performance or any other disruptions. Following this, Xiaomi states that “This proves thunderstorms do not affect the usage of smartphones.”
To further back these findings, the company even made a phone call to see if it impacts the quality of smartphone calls made by the same device. Again, there was no issue with the device. Xiaomi said that the rumor likely stems from old fashioned wired telephones, since there were extremely rare cases of deaths caused by people getting struck by lightning when using their wired phone during a thunderstorm.
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