Apple checking 'exploding' iPhone video

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

46 minutes ago, Master Disaster said:

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.

Don't worry, natural selection just doing its work.

[Phate.exe]

On 2/25/2017 at 11:45 AM, Ethernet said:

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.

All the charging circuitry is inside the phone.  A crappy charging cable shouldn't have any bearing on the phone overcharging or not.  And with lightning cables, you'll get phones that work perfectly with aftermarket cables, and other ones that are finicky assholes about anything other than an Apple-branded cable.  Saw this all the time when I worked at Radioshack, it's really annoying to have returns come back on cables that work totally fine.

 

I suppose you could make the case that a crap USB power supply could hurt the charging circuit with poorly-regulated 5V, but really it shouldn't overcharge when it fails.

[Qwertious]

I've charged my phone under my pillow before  still no fire. Must be an unlucky case 1 in a million

[TroubleKlef]

Which company is it that supplies a lot of silicone for the iPhone again? 

[LAwLz]

Not sure why people are calling it fake. This happens a few times every year. It is estimated that Apple has sold 100 million iPhones in 2016. Even if we assume a 0.001% battery failure rate, that's still 1,000 phones.

[MorganO]

eh ill still charge my 7 Plus on my bed 

[spellmanuk]

this isnt news really in my eyes, i the company i work for buys inruance salvage laptops, phones, tablets to refurbish all the time we see laptops and phones that batteries have "exploded" its only now that the news has started talking about it since the whole note 7 thing. with the note 7s granted its a manafacutre defect but most of the time especially with laptops we see its often from overheating.

[Lilninjsways]

On 2/24/2017 at 2:09 PM, tim0901 said:

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

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

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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lol and my dad always shits on androids and how they "suck" due to Samsung what about now dad?!