Since the pandemic started, I use the 70% alcohol wipes to clean my phone after each trip to the supermarket. I am just wondering if this cleaning process can be replaced with a UV sterilizing box? I have a few questions for those who have used one before.
1) How do we know the effectiveness of a UV sterilizing box?
2) Has anyone tried Xiaomi Mijia FIVE Multifunction UV Sterilizing Box before? Does it work well?
Thanks,
/WhyTea
Why not just bring your phone to the supermarket in a plastic bag.
After shopping, remove the phone from the bag onto a clean surface, dispose the bag and clean your hands before touching the phone.
I'm with Dedbny.
I have some isopropyl alcohol in an old "eye glasses cleaner" spray container and mist up my whole phone and wipe it over with soft tissue paper.
This is something I did/do regularly - nothing covid-19 related, just a good idea in general!
Might be better to spray on cloth then wipe so as not to damage phone if not IP rated.
UV? Leave it out in the sun haha
Not quite. The UV required to destroy a virus (or any genetic matter) is UV-C. This is almost completely filtered out by the earths Ozone layer. What we get down here on the ground is UV-A and UV-B.
So, unless you planned on sending your phone up above the ozone layer, sunlight down here won’t kill a virus straight away and may take hours to do any damage.
pesky ozone
Blocking out all the UV-C and stopping us from sanitising our phones for free… Ozone was put up there by the Chinese government to force us to to buy Xiaomi UV-C lamps…
Not using your phone at the supermarket is an option too. Just saying..
How is your phone getting "contaminated" at the supermarket?
apple pay? ive realised u can pay wave by just getting your card about 5 cm away from efpos machine. does that trick work with phones nfc?
its about as effective as alcohol wipes, although way more expensive and it won't get rid of grease. So no, would not recommend
Just make sure it is UV-C and not A or B that a lot of the eBay sellers are trying to flog to people who don’t know better… Just do your homework before you buy anything with UV on the box.
Also note: UV-C can be dangerous. Exposure to it can leave you with sunburn in seconds that would take regular sunlight hours to do.
Oh and you could always just use a small bottle of isopropyl spray and some wipes. Probably easier and quicker AND safer.
Not sure how effecctive it is against COVID19. Cheaper just to simply use some cleaner on a cloth isn't it. Which reminds me I should do that. Definatley the mobiles need regular cleaning as they are magnets for germs. Gee people take then into the loo.