Samsung sells more phones. They are the number one phone manufacturer in the world. Apple is not. So, this is an issue.
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More Incidents Surface of iPhone 8 Plus Devices Burst Open Due to Possible Battery Failure
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The key attribute of this issue is: if the defect in the battery or charging system or assembly that causes the battery to swell (note: no cases yet of catching fire, but from swelling to venting contents to fire may not be too much)...
If this is a defect introduced in manufacturing, will one know if the phone has the defect by charging it when one gets it?
Ie will this pop up immediately, or will one have to worry that 15 months down the road, then the battery swells?
If this is a defect introduced in manufacturing, will one know if the phone has the defect by charging it when one gets it?
Ie will this pop up immediately, or will one have to worry that 15 months down the road, then the battery swells?
Well this is getting slightly weird. They aren't using a bigger battery technically. Could it be an issue with the battery getting too hot?
I prefer a company such as Apple to focus on products and on the customer not on keeping the share price to help fund the luxury lifestyles of the rich shareholders
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That's because it is better
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I don't call 5 units out of millions a screw up. I also don't call 5 units not catching fire or exploding a screw up . I would go on but I doubt you have the intelligence to comprehend.
Much like a Boeing 747 - way over your head
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Apart form the fires, exploding phones, full recall and denial then issue the phone again a second time with same flaws in and then complain about the cost. So yes really is the same /s
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it does matter in that if it takes far longer for some iPhones to show up as affected then it means that there are high numbers of iPhones unaffected. Therefore that equates to a high yield rate and therefore a low failure rate.
Thus relatively few units that could have the battery pop out.
Compared to Samsun though where high failure rates were occurring.
Plus we only know about 5 units so far and are still waiting to see what happens. A bit early to criticise yet therefore.
You seem to want to call the fire brigade out before the fire has even started
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So you admit you are trolling then? lol
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So you basically are wanting us all to lambast Apple for learning from Samsung's faults?
You have to hand it to Cook to mess up a 4-year old design with his "operational excellence". -_-
Sigh, can you LOOK at what you’re posting. It uses the charging cable that’s included with the watch. Which is inductive charging, meaning it can’t overcharge/short the watch battery.
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Hey, when you're constantly refining the old design to squeeze larger and larger margins, quality has to give.
Profit > Quality in Timmy's head.
I'd like to see what happens if it doesn't get the chance to vent as these seem to be doing. Quite possible these phones would BLEVE much like the Note 7 did
thanks for sharing this.
this is an amazing review, in the sense of that the model they tested had begun to exhibit this battery problem, but not so much as to be really evident to most users.
these guys noticed the problem because they knew enough about how smartphones should be that they noticed this small (at the time of the interview) gap that wasn't perfectly flush.
i visited these guy's YouTube site but it doesn't appear that they have done a followup to this issue.
very interesting this problem was found during an unboxing.
meaning: no misuse. no non-apple charging accessories were used, etc etc.
in light of this, its clear that apple needs to address the issue immediately by putting out something, simply saying that some cases of battery expansion have been noticed in these xxxx serial number models and if you can come in for a free no-questions asked replacement.
this prevents risk to AAPL and gets in front any customer anxiety about this problem.
Dont really think you’re in touch with what it takes to run a huge multinational corporation. But to each their own.
i'd be more worried about this issue developing over time for the other 99.9%.
I doubt it.
excuses will come and Samsung will be to blame. Their batteries right?
When cars and homes start catching fire, then we can compare it to the Note7.
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Shhhh.... don't you understand? We are supposed to be bashing Apple in this thread, laughing how Apple is in the SAME situation that Samsung was because Apple is a horrible company that is managed by a horrible person that is <throws up violently>.
I took my out of warranty 3.5 year old iPhone with a slight bulge into an Apple store to get it repaired and they gave me a brand new phone (same model) for the price of a battery. It was a very simple process.
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Hopefully by next week, the iPhone 8 will be banned from commercial airlines.
This is never going to happen. Excuses will be made, news-sources strong armed, evidence under-rug swept, users blamed ("you are charging it wrong"), ...
Of course all of these are staged, Apple is PERFECT /s
Weren't you one of those people who were saying this is not an issue because "only two" were reported so far? Now it's up to 5, what number does it need to reach, for people to "really" take notice?
Even though I bash obvious non-critical thinking fanboi's, I do wonder what the number would have to be, for NORMAL people to take notice?
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