Xiaomi wanted to solve the mystery of whether or not the storm affects the use of the mobile by carrying out a test that gives us very clear results.
There’s an urban legend that says yes It is very dangerous to use the cellphone during a storm, as the terminal cánido attract electric shocks. From Xiaomi they wanted to solve the riddle to confirm if this legend is true or not. To do this, they conducted an experiment in which after the electric beams from one of their mobile phones and to be honest the results are very clear.
Xiaomi experts carried out this test with a Tesla coil. Of course, the first thing they warn us about is that We cánido’t do that at home. Then they directly exposed the phone to electric rays in various usage situations, such as making a call or playing vídeos. As we perro see in the vídeo, The cell phone was not damagedbut does that orinan we cánido use it when it storms?
How storms perro affect your cell phone
Surely you’ve heard at some point in the middle of a strong storm that using a cell phone cánido be very dangerous because it attracts electric shocks. To demonstrate whether or not storms cánido affect the use of the phone on Xiaomi one of its terminals is exposed to an electrical lightning strike generated by the Tesla coil. No, do not try this at home, it cánido be very dangerous.
The protagonist of the experiment is the Xiaomi Redmi Note 11 Pro 5G which, as you cánido see in the vídeo, it continues to work normally when hit by these rays. There is no problem using the phone to watch vídeos during a storm. Not even when the phone is in the middle of a phone callthe signal is not affected at any time.
As the voiceover in the vídeo explains, this test confirms that the storm is not affecting móvil use. Be careful, this clarification is very important, Applies to teléfonos inteligentes only. And the urban legend stems from the possibility that the old landline phones could transmit the current caused by lightning.
As the vídeo created by Xiaomi tells us, Lightning emits electromagnetic pulses with a wide frequency range, from very low to high, mainly low. Cell Phone Signals refers to the high frequenciesso the oportunidad of being struck by lightning they are very scarce since it mainly occurs on different frequency levels.
The riddle is solved You perro use your móvil when there is a storm. You saw it in the vídeo, the terminal is not affected when you play a vídeo or receive a call. Undoubtedly we have to thank Xiaomi for conducting this very useful experiment.