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Chinese Woman Suffers Eye Injuries After iPhone 5 Explodes
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Why do these "accidents" only happen to the Chinese?
Why do these "accidents" only happen to the Chinese when Apple has only 5% of marketshare in China?
1. Sabotage by a disgruntled Chinese manufacturer employee.
2. Thousands of fake Apple knockoffs that cause electrocutions.
3. Fake story submitted by Samsung.
Why do these "accidents" only happen to the Chinese when Apple has only 5% of marketshare in China?
1. Sabotage by a disgruntled Chinese manufacturer employee.
2. Thousands of fake Apple knockoffs that cause electrocutions.
3. Fake story submitted by Samsung.
correct me if I am wrong, but the battery is in the middle of the phone, not the corner?
I bet investigators find the iPhone is fully functional and battery is sealed and fine, but the charger is unauthorized.
I bet investigators find the iPhone is fully functional and battery is sealed and fine, but the charger is unauthorized.
If there was a general defect it would have already been spotted by now, there are millions of these devices out there and you regularly see damaged phones being used. It could be anything, a botched repair for instance, like the iPhone that exploded on a plane a couple of years back because whoever repaired it botched the job and puncturing the battery. I got to say though that holding a piece of shattered glass next to your face doesn't sound like the smartest thing to do yet you see a lot of people using phones with shattered screens doing just that.
So between caring about the "product" part of the news and the "human" part of the news, you decide that I don't care about the human part? Nice.
No, I never have. What does that have to do with anything, though?
I never said anything about the electronics. We're talking about an advanced tempered glass, here. Sounds to me like the fractured glass failed catastrophically when heated by the antenna after 40 minutes of use.
Glass is a fascinating and sometimes scary material.
Care to elaborate? Are you, too, deciding that I'm racist, and by definition, ignorant?
Gosh it's so funny to see what people decide to read into comments.
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It's funny how you think racism is anywhere around here. Have you not read about Chinese markets, ad nauseum?
You just take your chances. If you buy a brand new iPhone and use it, there is a chance that it will explode. That chance is very, very low (or with way over a hundred million phones sold, we would hear about it all the time). If you drop the phone, especially if you drop the phone so hard that the screen is damaged, obviously the chance of something going wrong will increase. It's still not a very high chance because it is still rare that we hear about exploding phones that were damaged before, but the chance is higher. In this unfortunate case, not only was the screen damaged long before the incident, but there was malfunctioning just preceding the incident. If you dropped the phone so hard that the screen is damaged, _and_ you have actually malfunctioning, the chance of something going wrong is higher again than with a phone that has no visible malfunction.
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Only if that unauthorised cable somehow caused the woman to drop her phone. You didn't by any chance read the article? Anyway, the cables are not the problem. It is the charger. If you buy a rubbish charger that puts 220 Volt into a genuine Apple cable connected to a genuine iPhone, chances are that you will get fried. If you plug a rubbish cable into a genuine Apple (or other good quality) charger, connect to a fake iPhone, you'll be safe.
Double true. I guess part of it is human nature to assume that you're morally superior to the next guy, and it feels good to post online because of that.
Oh well. Your comment was a breath of fresh air, anyway.
Same here!
Not really but yes. I've dropped my iPhone 5, maybe 6 times, since launch day. Still works great and no cracks across the screen. But you can see where it's been damaged and most notably, in the upper right hand corner. You might not notice the damage without a close look, but if you pinch the top corner (front and back) you can hear a little click, suggesting that there's no longer a good seal.
Soo...I better not talk on the phone for 40 mins or get too mad at it when it overheats. I guess that's the lesson here?
Not really but yes. I've dropped my iPhone 5, maybe 6 times, since launch day. Still works great and no cracks across the screen. But you can see where it's been damaged and most notably, in the upper right hand corner. You might not notice the damage without a close look, but if you pinch the top corner (front and back) you can hear a little click, suggesting that there's no longer a good seal.
Soo...I better not talk on the phone for 40 mins or get too mad at it when it overheats. I guess that's the lesson here?
The risk of your phone blowing up is probably on a par with getting struck by lightning or winning 100 million on the lottery. The only reason most people ever hear about it happening is that there are hundreds of millions of people around the world buying lotto tickets, going out in thunderstorms and dropping their phones, and when it does happen it tends to make the news - especially if the phone has an Apple on it.
If it's cracked, maybe the risk is more like getting struck by lightning while playing golf: significantly raised but still nothing to worry about.
Otherwise - you work in a school with hundreds of kids using damaged phones. How often is your lesson interrupted by the sound of someone's iPhone cooking off?
On the contrary, there may not be an issue with the phones at all. It could be you, your house wiring or such
They go quiet and say nothing because anything they do say could be used by you if you decided to take it to court and they don't have authority to be in that kind of position. Regarding there being an issue, that it might be your fault or anything else. Many companies have similar rules
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You're wrong.
The battery runs down the right hand (as you are looking at display) 1/3 to 1/2 of phone, beginning just below the missing chip from the photo. Not far fetched to imagine a chip getting inside and poking the soft cell
Stupid sweeping comment
A number of people have taken offense to this sweeping comment, including myself. And even though I have no clue of your age, I'm going to chalk up your statement to an error of youth.
A number of people have taken offense to this sweeping comment, including myself. And even though I have no clue of your age, I'm going to chalk up your statement to an error of youth.
And guess what, an vastly greater number of people actually see objectivity beyond reactive emotion. Your inability to do so may be an error of youth or old age, depending on your world view.