I read this morning on the BBC webpage [1] that based on ONE incident where a young woman was hit by lightning while yakking on her cellie that British doctors are warning against even CARRYING the damn things outside during a storm.
But that wad of keys in your pocket and that I-Pod in the other and that DSP in your left hand is Just Jake, I suppose?
The phone is not grounded. How it can attract lightning any more than the top of your head escapes me. But then, my ticket is punched in electrical engineering, not Homeopathic "Medicine" like those UK doctors.
Maybe if they take the remains of the cell phone, put it in a bottle of water, then pour everything out and rinse the bottle 10X, they could sell it as a Homeopathic lightning repellent ? "Like Cures Like", after all....
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