While the whole world is fighting the coronavirus, any promise to help in this matter is rewarding. Sometimes companies do this out of ideological convictions, but many simply go too far in their desire to promote on this topic. Now there is a message that Samsung cases will be able to fight the coronavirus and defeat it. It remains only to understand how it works and whether it is necessary to talk about it as an effective means of prevention. Of course, ordinary users cannot check if the new case kills the coronavirus or not, but Samsung is not the company to cheat. Although…
Coronavirus is now the number one topic and everyone is fighting it as best they can.
Samsung Coronavirus Resistant Cases
Samsung is always looking for something new and recently registered a new trademark “Antimicrobial Coating”. It involves the development and use of antibacterial coatings. Now this coating will be applied to original Samsung phone cases. The best part is that it's not just words or marketing – the coverage has really proven to be effective. However, this does not mean that such a good and working idea is not used for blatant PR.
Antimicrobial coating effectively fights not only bacteria, but also viral particles, giving its owner comprehensive protection. Since the coronavirus can be picked up by simply touching something, smartphone users should constantly wipe their gadgets. Even at normal times, it is very dirty and the amount of bacteria on it is comparable to that which “sit” on the keys of an ATM, money, car steering wheel and toilet rim. These are the places that everyone touches with dirty hands, and often passes them on to a friend.
The new coating of cases for Samsung smartphones allows you to fight, including with the coronavirus. At this stage, this is most important, and when the situation settles down, simple protection will come in handy, because we often take the phone with dirty hands and never wipe it. Especially if it's in a case. How to clean a leather or cloth case?
Samsung is committed to making the world a safer place. Well, or just PR.
Samsung patented a new case for its phones
Either way, Samsung filed a patent for the “Anti-Microbial Coating” on June 30th, and it has been filed in several countries. Among them you can find Spain, Italy, Switzerland and the UK. The description of the patent looks like this: “Protective cases and covers for smartphones and tablet computers.” This clearly indicates that we will receive many cases for different types of devices.
This antibacterial coating has shown its effectiveness not only in the laboratories of the Korean company, but also in the laboratories of the University of Arizona (UA). This is stated in the report of specialists.
According to experts, the coating is able to protect the surface on which it is applied for up to 90 days. After contact of bacteria and viruses with such a coating, their number decreases by 90 percent in the first 10 minutes and by 99.9 percent after two hours.
Is it possible to get infected with coronavirus through the phone
Smartphones are an extremely effective way to spread infection anytime, not just now that COVID-19 is out. Let's say you touched something in the subway or in the store, but did not touch your face and washed your hands as soon as possible. Formally, you did everything right and followed all the recommendations, but we use the phone so often that we don't even notice that we took it out until we washed our hands. For example, to pay for a purchase at the checkout or to view a list of purchases in a store.
As a result, all the work will be in vain and washed hands will not protect you from infection, in this case the possibility of “self-cleaning” of the phone will be a very useful option and a new cover will really come in handy.
When will the antibacterial cover come out?
It is not yet clear when Samsung will release the new cases on sale, but considering that, most likely, next month we will have a major presentation that will bring Samsung Galaxy Note 20, Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5G, Samsung Galaxy Fold 2 and possibly a budget version of the Galaxy Fold, it is logical to assume that the company will announce the new product there. It’s too good and timely accessory to just discreetly put it on store shelves.
It can be assumed that the first new cases will receive the line of Samsung Galaxy Note 20. Either immediately, or almost immediately, foldable phones and the Galaxy S20 line will follow. And only then the novelty will spread to other models. So the company will be able to stimulate sales of more expensive devices, and even an increase in sales by negligible fractions of a percent according to the law of large numbers will give millions in profits.
If that works, there are plenty of safe cases waiting for us.
Was there a case with virus protection before
Given the scale of Samsung, they are talking about such cases right now. Despite the fact that such developments already existed, very few people knew about them, and it is companies such as Samsung, Huawei, Apple and Xiaomi that can spin the flywheel interest in development.
But it will not work to repeat Samsung's decision, because the patent. However, many other manufacturers are likely to pick up this wave and find a way to implement their ideas in this direction. Well, or they will simply unbuckle a pretty penny from Samsung for the right to use the development. So everyone will be happy and the world will be a little safer.