In its stores, Samsung offers an ultraviolet-based process to eliminate all traces of infection on mobile phones.
While Apple’s side took care to close all of its Apple Store except in China, where the epidemic of Covid-19 is stabilized, Samsung still leaves the door open for shopping. The Korean, whose country seems to be stemming the development of infections, in its own way fights against the spread by offering a disinfection service for smartphones in its shops.
Called Galaxy Sanitizing Service, this free service which is already available in Samsung stores in Malaysia uses UV-C diffusing lamps to eliminate viruses and another bacteria.which swarm on our mobiles. We already knew that mobiles carried seven times more microbes than a toilet bowl, but what we learned from Covid-19 is that it can remain active for up to nine days on metal surfaces. , glass or plastic that makes up smartphones.
Do not use to disinfect hands
Since smartphones are used and affected constantly, even after washing your hands, the virus may well remain on their surface. Even if it remains rather improbable that the concern of the populations is to go to the Samsung stores to disinfect their mobiles, this decision recalls that the ultraviolet lamps are effectively effective in destroying the viruses and other microbes. However, they should not be used directly on the skin because they may irritate it.
Like the virus, Samsung does not discriminate, since smartphones of all brands can be disinfected. On its site, Samsung had posted a list of countries in which the service is or would be available. France is one of them. This list has since been withdrawn due to the development of containment measures implemented in more and more European countries.