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Apple Investigating iPhone 7 Plus Caught Melting on Video
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Impossible. That would require the iPhone to have a customer-replaceable battery.
Just love how the article says the iPhone 7 is "melting." But when the Note 7 had its battery issue and was doing the exact same thing, it was referred to as "exploding."
The article says the phone blew up, but neither the video or photo support that claim. I suspect no Samsungs exploded either, but people do love to exaggerate.
Exactly. It's up to the phone to stop charging. Blaming the cable because it continued to deliver electricity is ridiculous.
That's like blaming the sink for continuing to supply water and overflowing your glass, when you should have turned the knobs when you were done.
What does the water faucet know???
A cable is just wires providing a supply. It's up to the device / phone to say I've had enough, and I'm closing the supply gate for now.
I hope he is one of the last people to look into this. He is probably less certified for it than most of us. He runs a large company but diagnosing battery and iPhone internals is not on his CV.
Maybe it's real. Millions of phones sold, some must malfunction. It's just natural.
Isn't that the whole point about using MFI cables? Cheap cables could fry the charging circuit leading to other issues.
But Your post isn't an exaggeration? What are the chances of somebody filming or photographing the phone actually blowing up at the time it happens? It's usually after the fact when someone has the time to react and or realize what's happening. Especially when dealing with an unpredictable smoldering iPhone. I think you're Not factoring the elements of the situation, regardless if this article is fictitious or not.
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If one note 7 reported on fire , mass hysteria, if one one phone, story called fake.
Bless the usual posters here
Every generation of iPhone has experienced such battery failures , it's the nature of the battery technology. This will be an isolated cause, unless it's linked to a batch of batteries with issues like note 7. I'd assume the former .
Bless the usual posters here
Every generation of iPhone has experienced such battery failures , it's the nature of the battery technology. This will be an isolated cause, unless it's linked to a batch of batteries with issues like note 7. I'd assume the former .
How do you figure they rushed the iPhone 7 if it launches the exact same time every single year in September? (At least the last three iPhones have launched in September).
Better inhale some of those nice burning battery fumes so you can get your 5 minutes fame on the internet.
A few on here were saying "think of the children" and bombs...in relation to the note 7. There was some really silly exaggeration.
Completely agree with you in relation to catching the incident .
There always gonna be exaggeration or past remarks regarding the Note 7. Unfortunately, that's going to follow Samsung for a while. Even though it's really a dead issue on here and it's time to move on from it.
$20 she was using a cheap 3rd party charger that caused the incident.
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Is it bad that I imagine someone talking like this likely makes minimum wage or still gets money from the bank of dad? Then I begin to wonder how Ms. Oh Hell can even afford an iPhone 7 Plus with an IQ like that.... Sigh
So all $1 phone chargers are safe and it's the iPhone that doesn't work with them?
All Apple chargers have a chip that manages the power and communicates with the device. Cheap aftermarket chargers don't.
That's just a marketing ploy so you only buy their chargers and cables. That way apple makes more money.
As for a lot saying this is fake I don't think so. All of a sudden apple has a phone or 2 that this happens and folks can't believe that it could happen. Why? Cause it's apple? Some are just so brain washed.
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There's a reason almost every time there is an issue you see a cheap cable in the pic. I used to have an aftermarket charger that was not certified and I noticed my phone would always be really hot while charging. I bought a belkin that was certified and it stopped. The chip is a part of the Lightning circuitry that allows it to perform many functions while managing power flow. Cheap cables leave this out
My mistake for upvoting this. Save your blood pressure and wait until you find out that this is probably a stunt.
Is 21st century and it is the time online social media is thriving! Things people would do to replicate something that can go viral like the galaxy note 7 disaster! Actually I am surprised it toke so long for someone to come up with something like this. Crazy worl!!