Never thought to think about how climate would affect my use of electronics. I live in a dessert where its 80+ year round so the cold doesn't come to mind...

yes screens in direct sunlight and being left in crs when the super heat like ovens up to 200 degrees, even cd's melt

I think at that temperature you shouldn't be using any phone outside... I do know with my iphone4 that during the summer if I leave it in the car for a little that it will turn itself off since it heats up to much.

strange. I use my iPhone to film while outside at temp ranging in the -20 many times a week and I never add hardly any signs of malfunction. And I keep it in an outside pocket, so the phone become as cold as the weather very quickly. I dropped it several times in the snow while having only a simple cover and it never stopped working.

Where I live its pretty common for temperature to drop below -20C in winter.

So this makes me wonder why do they even allow them to sell these phones here that can't even withstand our normal living conditions?

Gotta love Samsung in this one tough, they have pretty durable phones when it comes to temperature. They even guarantee that their phones are supposed to work from -20C to +50C temperatures.

You never know with tech though. Cold isnt supposed to hinder them that much and sometimes its just plain bad luck if you get a phone with weaker integrity than others from the same lot.