Just after the antenna issues has been "resolved" it seems that the popular phone is now under the gun again.

A recent article on the Hong Kong most read newspaper - South China Morning Post headline reads "Is Hong Kong so humid it could wreck your iPhone".

Hopefully this doesn't happen to either you or me.

Let's take a step back first and see how much market share does iPhone garner for the Asia market:

Hong Kong - 56%

Singapore - 62%

Taiwan - 39%

Philippines - 12%

Thailand - 9%

Some of the countries above relatively feature high temperature or humidity.

I did some research in comparing with other phones operating temperature, unfortunately not all phone list their complete operating temperature, humidity and altitude (Apple did a good job at this if you go through their spec before getting the product). Some manuals only feature a phrase "Keep the device dry. Precipitation, humidity, and all types of liquids or moisture can contain minerals that corrode electronic circuits". This reminds me a few years ago of an article mentioning a recently released tech (forgot what product it was) and that a user were not able to use it on-board of a plane and a recent reply mentioned that above a certain altitude many high-tech device particularly screens or certain type of LCD would not function properly.

Luckily the chatter on Twitter has not pick this one up, I've only managed to find two discussions regarding iPhone humidity, will start a hashtag with #iPhonehumidity to see how fast this can pick up.

Hopefully the Apple Asia team will pick this up and address it soon.