[Swordmaker]

Morton Thiokol, page your office...

Funny, I didn't even know compact phones *had* O-rings...

And Samsung didn't even have a Utah Senator on the Air and Space Committee to please by giving the contract to a Utah company thousands of miles away from where the solid rocket boosters, er, phone would be launched. . . which didn't even have the lowest bid. . .

[grey_whiskers]

When one of the engineers for the Challenger tried to warn about this, he was told (verbatim) "to take off his engineering hat and put on his management hat" (as there was at the time, a limited launch window).

Wouldn't it have been a hoot to watch Dick Feynman dunk a Galaxy 7 in a cup of ice water to make his point?

(imagination breaks free, runs across the yard): "...Tonight on Mythbusters; can you use your phone in an emergency to start a campfire?"