With the iPhone finally learning how to swim, water resistance can now be considered a standard feature among high-end smartphones.

Samsung, though, has been bringing customers the same technology for some time, and is seemingly looking to graduate from water survivor to water repellent, Digital Spy reports.

The South Korean tech company has licensed a hydrophobic glass coating from the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge Laboratory, which could result in future phones working as normal in the rain.

Thanks to a coating which has a droplet contact angle of around 160 degrees, any fluid making contact with the phone's surface will simply bounce off.

Fighting back against water isn't the only benefit of the tech, though, with ORNL also claiming the surface will reduce reflection and resist fingerprints marks - a big deal for Sammy's shiny, smudge-magnet casing.

With the company officially licensing the product, we're bound to see it come to our phones at some point, Digital Spy said.

Just which device, though, is unclear. It may be too late to implement on the Galaxy S8, but the feature could be brought to next year's Note - y'know, after they solve those overheating problems - or the Galaxy S9, Digital Spy said.