iphone blows up & starts office fire

[CQB]

That must be the new iTerrorPhone .. beyond 4G, all the way to TNT

that's funny right there!

 

[CQB]

Did this phone belong agent Maxwell Smart?

Anything with a battery and a circuit board goes "poof" at some point. There are forty-eleven million reasons this could happen.

 

[Sfrandolph]

Islamic bomber phone

 

[RockofStrength]

So a perfectly normal IPhone explodes, but the iTouch I smashed against a counter continues to work for months...?

 

[jedi]

So a perfectly normal IPhone explodes, but the iTouch I smashed against a counter continues to work for months...?

Yup...
I don't know what the user of the phone was doing with it before she left it on the desk. But the battery blew up and caught the phone on fire while it was on her desk just there. (ie. she was not on it, it was not running music/video). She was working on the PC.

 

[raggedoutcummins77]

Now thats crazy.

 

[RedneckReject]

Weird stuff happens. Not too long ago we had a phone overheat very badly and very rapidly for reasons unknown. It shattered the screen but it didn't explode or catch fire or anything. There are always going to be anomalies and they (hopefully) won't be very frequent, but they will happen

 

[PX4me]

You need to get the backstory on the phone before you go on about iPhones blowing up. The majority of cell phones having issues like these are the result of misuse and/or abuse.

My guess is it was wet at some point. It's a lot easier to blame the phone blindly than to admit to being the cause yourself.

That goes for all cell phones and not just the iPhone.

 

[CQB]

Phone could have been "cracked" also. If the IOS had been hacked, which is fairly common on IPhones, they can over clock the processor which created enormous amounts of extra heat on the whole platform.

 

[BogWalker]

I personally refuse to buy Apple products, but I don't think this is an iPhone problem. I'd say it's the same batteries that go into a lot of products that caused the problem.

 

[xfrostybeersx]

I can't believe you (Jedi) are referring to yourself in 3rd person outside the NWI Thread!

Only a Thug would do that

 

[PX4me]

Phone could have been "cracked" also. If the IOS had been hacked, which is fairly common on IPhones, they can over clock the processor which created enormous amounts of extra heat on the whole platform.

Where did you get that?

I've not heard of a single iPhone blowing up because it was jailbroken. I've had jailbroken iPhones for years and there is no difference in heat or anything else with regard to the CPU. I'm sure I would notice too because I use a Defender case which has zero ventilation.

 

[jedi]

You need to get the backstory on the phone before you go on about iPhones blowing up. The majority of cell phones having issues like these are the result of misuse and/or abuse.

My guess is it was wet at some point. It's a lot easier to blame the phone blindly than to admit to being the cause yourself.

That goes for all cell phones and not just the iPhone.

as jedi stated in the OP it is not jedi's phone, nor do i care how or why it blew up.
apple like glocks jedi and hates.
all jedi was concerned about was making sure the building did not caught on fire becuase of this. luckly the desk was clear of paperwork, else jedi can only imagine the papers caughting on fire, followed by the fabric on the cube.

I can't believe you (Jedi) are referring to yourself in 3rd person outside the NWI Thread!

Only a Thug would do that

hello! did jedi not say that in honor of wd, jedi would talk in 3rd person?

 

[PX4me]

as jedi stated in the OP it is not jedi's phone, nor do i care how or why it blew up.

I'm aware of it not being your phone which is why I am suspect of the owner's description of events.

She left out the part about dropping it in the toilet when she was changing her tampon.

 

[Boost Lee]

I left Apple long ago for Samsung........

Team Galaxy (Note II)

 

[actaeon277]

Any device with tightly spaced components and high energy batteries is a risk.

I'm not sure about now, but when I toured a circuit board printing factory about 10 years ago, they said the average cell phone used a 27 layer circuit board.
The boards you're used to seeing, 2 layer circuit board.

So you take that tightly packed board, and then add a battery with energy unthought of 10 years ago.
Something happens, it could be spectacular.

 

[actaeon277]

Did it look anything like this?
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzR4FmgvJXQ[/ame]

 

[mrjarrell]

Batteries across the spectrum sometimes catch fire. It's a known issue and it's not an Apple issue. Lithium batteries are known to occasionally overheat. Doesn't matter what brand or size. There've been plenty of Android phones and laptops that have experienced the same thing. Even cars.

https://www.google.com/search?q=sit...s=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

 

[92ThoStro]

Friends iPhone blew up using a cheapo eBay charger.
Glad your building is OK Jedi!

I have an iPhone 3GS it is jail broken and I only use it for music for in my car.

I love my Droid RAZR HD!!

 

[mbafta]