Ingress protection (IP) ratings were once reserved for the most premium of smartphones, but they have now made their way to even affordable smartphones like the Pixel 9a. Yet, with the launch of ...

The acronym stands for Ingress Protection; that is, the device’s ability to prevent particulate matter (i.e., dust or sand) and water from getting inside and damaging it. The numbers that follow ...

But some protection is better than nothing at all — and every device on this list has an IP rating attached to it. That rating describes the level of ingress protection, with the first digit ...