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Chinese Woman Suffers Eye Injuries After iPhone 5 Explodes
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AppleCare+ is not offered in most markets. In fact as far as I'm aware it's not offered outside of the US and Canada.
He means AppleCare+ with the physical damage coverage. He's still wrong, since Canada isn't part of the US, though.
I'm betting it was that or it was charged with a third party charger that caused the issue.
Phones exploding in China are like dashboard cams in Russia. A dime a dozen...
My wife works as a defense attorney for a corporation with more subsidiaries than I'd care to count. Product liability is her area of practice, and believe me when I say they have plenty of experts to tear a plaintiff's case apart enough that are generally willing to settle out of court. I'm not familiar with China's courts, but corruption is probably on Apple's side in such cases. Because of the amount of litigation in the U.S., both sides are almost always required to go to pre trial mediation, and judges often don't like plaintiff attorneys. Using a damaged product does not bode well for a plaintiff, although there are always exceptions.
Why his assertion based on speculation any worse than yours? Actually, your declarative is less substantial than his obvious speculation.
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Did you hear about the S4 that caught fire and burned down an apartment in China. True story.
This is nonsense. A phone is a device that MANY people drop. It should NOT explode just because it was dropped. Dropping a phone is considered by many as normal use. Heck there are millions of cases made to protect phone from drops. If dropping the phone poses such a danger the phone should lock itself when it detects such high G's and require the phone be checked for possible explosion risk before it can be used again. Its not like we're talking about dropping a TV... phones have been dropped for MANY YEARS.
If the risk of explosion goes up after a drop "alone" then there is a design problem that needs to be fixed.
Also I can't begin to tell you how many people I've seen using cracked iPhone screens. So again it is VERY common.
NOTE: I would suspect the cracked screen is not the sole cause of the explosion. I would guess maybe a faulty charger caused overheating and the screen exploded at its weak spot.
The phone could have been a really good KIRF (in the land of fake Apple Retail stores) with a non genuine display or otherwise, things like that may happen with a cracked screen but that would be the first time that Gorilla Glass would behave in that manner that I've seen (I have seen my fair share of broken glass on the back of the iPhone 4/4s).
Any event of high internal temperature would have shut the phone down with a swollen battery bending the case. Any signs of swollen batteries do warp and can explode as seen years ago with some laptop batteries used in Dell, Toshiba and various Windows powered notebooks and even the PowerBook/iBook G4 which Apple had a battery exchange program all tracked by serial number and model number of the battery. Back to the iPhone, this would be the first time I've had seen or heard of something like this.
My iPhone 5 has gotten warm at times but nothing that would get to the point of burning my hand. If it did get any hotter, I'm sure the thermal circuit would have cut the power with the thermometer displayed. When you have KIRF parts, problems like that happen
When it comes to the time of inspecting the phone, technicians can easily spot some of the best KIRF's in the wild. Most of those repair places advertising on Craigslist are more likely to use such parts.
Any event of high internal temperature would have shut the phone down with a swollen battery bending the case. Any signs of swollen batteries do warp and can explode as seen years ago with some laptop batteries used in Dell, Toshiba and various Windows powered notebooks and even the PowerBook/iBook G4 which Apple had a battery exchange program all tracked by serial number and model number of the battery. Back to the iPhone, this would be the first time I've had seen or heard of something like this.
My iPhone 5 has gotten warm at times but nothing that would get to the point of burning my hand. If it did get any hotter, I'm sure the thermal circuit would have cut the power with the thermometer displayed. When you have KIRF parts, problems like that happen
When it comes to the time of inspecting the phone, technicians can easily spot some of the best KIRF's in the wild. Most of those repair places advertising on Craigslist are more likely to use such parts.
So True! The Chinese are by far the biggest Counterfeiters of Consumer goods in the world. I have seen many authentic looking products that turned to junk in rapid fashion. How the World Trade Organization allows Chinese companies to get away with this is astounding.
Right so if any of the 100's of thousands of people walking around with a damaged iphone screen loose and eye or die ***** on them..... wow!!
Damage to the iPhone screen is very common and can easily happen. Because of this Apple is still liable for the poor design of the a screen that can easily break from normal use and possibly cause user injury if the phone explodes as a result of the drop or broken screen.
Lawyer ask jury.... "How many of you dropped your phone?" "How may of you go a new one if the phone still worked" "how many of you saw people using a broken iphone" "how often did you think to your self...RUN that phone is gonna blow" "what if the broken screen on your teens phone blinded or killed them" "who is to blame"
Example: Next week you drop your phone. very little to no external damage. A week later your iphone explodes and kills you. What should your tombstone read? "I love Apple to death"
NOTE: As I said b4 I feel there is more to this case and I do NOT feel Apple has an exploding iphone problem. But if its found that she was using legit charger and legit iphone then id expect Apple to settle and issue a warning about using phones with broken screens.
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Because Apple builds the phone to be used 'as is' out of box and with normal wear and tear. Dropping a phone and having significant screen damage is not normal. I'm sure there is more to the story then even what is reported but Apple won't be found liable at all.
I'm guessing it's the battery.
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Dashboard cams!!! Those Russian car crash videos are hilarious. Yes, like all the recorded car crashes happen in Russia, all the exploding/burning electronics are in China. In fact, if one more iPhone burns or explodes in China, I'm going to suspect something of the Chinese media.
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I hope that scratched iPhone 5 I got isn't going to blow up on me. Even more secretly dangerous is the iPhone 5 my mom got that came with a blemish on it straight from Apple.
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Dashboard cams!!! Those Russian car crash videos are hilarious. Yes, like all the recorded car crashes happen in Russia, all the exploding/burning electronics are in China. In fact, if one more iPhone burns or explodes in China, I'm going to suspect something of the Chinese media.
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I hope that scratched iPhone 5 I got isn't going to blow up on me. Even more secretly dangerous is the iPhone 5 my mom got that came with a blemish on it straight from Apple.
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Well, if she sues Apple, I bet Apple wins in this case because of the extent of the damage to the phone. She freely admitted it had been dropped.