Apple checking 'exploding' iPhone video

[tim0901]

There has been another case of an iPhone 7 exploding, with footage being released onto twitter of the device emitting smoke.

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Brianna Olivas, 18, from Tucson, Arizona, was sleeping with the phone nearby when her boyfriend noticed it smoking and emitting a strange noise.

He moved the phone away from her and took a video, which has gone viral, in which the handset can clearly be seen emitting smoke.

Apple has replaced both the phone and the case that were damaged

The device had been brought into a store the previous day after it wouldn't turn on:

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"They were able to get the phone on and ran diagnostics. They said nothing was wrong with it and everything was fine."

But the next morning she woke to discover her phone on fire

Or at least spewing smoke everywhere.

 

As with the other reports of iPhone 7s catching fire, I doubt we'll hear of this again. It'll probably be linked to dodgy 3rd party chargers or a previously damaged handset.

 

Original article: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-39081895

 

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[PCGuy_5960]

2 minutes ago, tim0901 said:

There has been another case of an iPhone 7 exploding, with footage being released onto twitter of the device emitting smoke.

Looks like this iPhone 7 is having an identity crisis, it thinks it is a Note 7!

[TidaLWaveZ]

It's fake, only Samsung phones are capable of something like this.

 

No other phone has ever done this except for Samsung phones. Especially iPhone's.

 

Also, LOL @ "literally no explanation for this". What a maroon.

[iamdarkyoshi]

You'd need an impressively bad third party charger to get the phone to do this. I highly doubt it was the charger.

[Guest]

If my eyes aren't deceiving me, it has a case on it - quite possibly one with a battery in it; need I say more?

[The Sloth]

Just now, PCGuy_5960 said:

Looks like this iPhone 7 is having an identity crisis, it thinks it is a Note 7!

my i phone 7plus gets a bit hot sometimes too, it's normal for lithium batteries to explode especially in a thin phone like that. 

[tim0901]

1 minute ago, AUniqueName said:

If my eyes aren't deceiving me, it has a case on it - quite possibly one with a battery in it; need I say more?

Looks like a standard silicone shell to me, nothing that should remotely affect the battery.

[Guest Kloaked]

1 minute ago, AUniqueName said:

If my eyes aren't deceiving me, it has a case on it - quite possibly one with a battery in it; need I say more?

I don't think that's a battery case.

[Narnash]

2 minutes ago, TidaLWaveZ said:

It's fake, only Samsung phones are capable of something like this.

 

No other phone has ever done this except for Samsung phones. Especially iPhone's.

I guess irony right? Like 3GS

[PlayStation 2]

This could be like that odd issue with iPhone 5 batteries and them not reading correctly if you owned a white one, except far more dangerous.

Hopefully it stays isolated.

[TidaLWaveZ]

Just now, Narnash said:

I guess irony right? Like 3GS

Sarcasm for the many times this has happened to an iPhone.

[AnonymousGuy]

6 minutes ago, AUniqueName said:

If my eyes aren't deceiving me, it has a case on it - quite possibly one with a battery in it; need I say more?

Women using a battery case with an iphone?  Hahahaha, no way.

[Doobeedoo]

I just wonder when are new type of batteries are gonna come to market. There were mentions about those that are not dangerous at all and even multiple times more capacity.

[Zodiark1593]

9 minutes ago, Doobeedoo said:

I just wonder when are new type of batteries are gonna come to market. There were mentions about those that are not dangerous at all and even multiple times more capacity.

Well, the ones I know of are LiFe, and are not only significantly more stable than LiPo, but can be safely charged inside 5 minutes, but you lose a great deal of voltage (3.3 nominal vs 3.8), and with that, total capacity (in watt hours) as well. Form factor is probably an issue too. 

[Guest]

1 hour ago, tim0901 said:

Looks like a standard silicone shell to me, nothing that should remotely affect the battery.

 

1 hour ago, Kloaked said:

I don't think that's a battery case.

Some of them are quite slim, but yeh, I guess it does look like a standard silicone one. 

 

Still wouldn't surprise me if it was another 'Oh no, my phone exploded whilst I was charging it under my pillow with shit running on it with a nice insulating case on'

[SansVarnic]

I saw no explosion ... just a burning phone, such hype. My hopes were dashed cuz I wanted to see one explode.

[Lazmarr]

4 hours ago, AUniqueName said:

If my eyes aren't deceiving me, it has a case on it - quite possibly one with a battery in it; need I say more?

I believe it's the Lithium-ion battery failing. I believe they are designed now to vent, rather than explode, when they fail.

[Magnetorheological]

She was holding it wrong, that's why it caught fire. 

[Frankie]

Apple stealing ideas from other brands again smh. /jk

[OuchMyFaceyHole]

One phone means nothing. When you have millions of them then some will fail. Non story.

[Bensemus]

40 minutes ago, Lazmarr said:

I believe it's the Lithium-ion battery failing. I believe they are designed now to vent, rather than explode, when they fail.

They've always been designed to vent. No Samsung phone actually exploded in a ball of fire. The vented gas is still extremely hot and can ignite stuff. The slow mo guys just did a video on lighting batteries on fire. They used a lithium AA battery and saw it had 4 holes on the positive end that vented the battery when it got to hot. That vented gas did catch fire and scorched the table but the battery didn't explode like the flat watch batteries they burnt earlier.

[Lays]

TIL "exploding" means tiny bit of smoke.

[Ethernet]

Just going to lay my two sense on this. She was probably using a crappy ass third party charging cable, and the case she was using. Yes the iPhone 7 gets hot but with a case like that, facing down so no air circulation from the room can get to it, I wouldn't be surprised if that's the reason why it melt. Bad ass case.

 

She also said "The past two nights it hasn't been on my bed at all," Helps explain the issue, phone charging on your bed. You fall asleep and now its under your pillow with a bunch of apps still running.

[Guest]

I identify as a battery and this is extremely offensive. 

[Master Disaster]

A battery sets on fire and starts emitting toxic smoke and his first reaction is to pull his phone out and film it? His chance of getting cancer just went up by 10,000%.

 

Li Ion batteries are vulnerable to this sort of thing and literally any device with a Li Ion battery in it could do this, as we don't know what sort of life the phone had its impossible to know if its user generated or something manufacturer related however the fact she had it in a shop being looked at because it wouldn't turn on doesn't exactly indicate she looked after it very well.

 

One phone igniting is an accident, it only becomes a problem when multiple phones do it.