White iPhone 3GS units discoloring from excessive heat

[Gershon]

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/06/30/white_iphone_3gs_units_discoloring_from_excessive_heat.html

Thank goodness I skipped buying a white 32GB iPhone 3GS.. excessive heat and discolouration! Apple had better do something about this and change the material of the back casing in the 2010 ( 4th generation ) iPhone .

Does yours suffer this problem?

 

[iGeRmAn]

Time to get worried ?

I own the white one, too.

Click !

 

[YoungLew]

mines fine, and i've been using lastfm app over 3g and i've used the GPS and 3G for prolonged periods.......

 

[Sam21]

I just see it as a way to get a shiny replacement if something like that does go wrong

 

[mavis]

Wirelessly posted (iPhone 3GS (White, 32GB): Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 3_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/528.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile/7C97d Safari/528.16)

I just see it as a way to get a shiny replacement if something like that does go wrong

Yup. In a way, I'm hoping mine overheats.

 

[FreAk6767]

Yes,

Mine seems to be faulty as well.
3GS White 32Go.

I called Apple in France this morning, the apple tech asked me a picture of my phone (attached here), and immidiately agreed an exchange.
He is considering keeping my unit in the lab, to observe whats goin on.

The new iphone will be sent within 24/48hrs, as I cannot stay without a phone (work). UPS will collect the faulty iPhone later.

 

[diamond.g]

It was just reported on Fox News


I wonder what Apple is going to do/say...

 

[FreAk6767]

yes indeed:

Fox news iPhone Heat

 

[gloss]

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You keep using this word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

 

[TSX]

Maybe your processor was overclocked and is producing heat.

 

[toxictrix]

Dang that is bad. Hopefully Apple has something on their minds to fix it. Was that just with normal use?

 

[ddavid]

UPS will collect the faulty iPhone later.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2659/3678550477_8c24e0b75e_b.jpg

That is one nasty color. Not even going to go there...

 

[harry20larry]

Maybe your processor was overclocked and is producing heat.

3GS processor are underclocked from 833MHz to 600MHz

 

[Chaos123x]

Whoa it gives it the 1970's everyone smokes inside look.

 

[Unspoken Demise]

Great.
Just great.
4 cracks in my housing already, and now it may turn pick.
Awesome! Oh well, if this happens, at least Apple is a good company and will take care of their customers. Ive got 4 cracks but ill wait a while before reporting and replacing. I'd hate to take a phone from someone who has been waiting on it because I have some strictly cosmetic damage.

 

[linsam]

What about the black phones?

The people with white phones are somewhat lucky because they can SEE the discoloration to know they have a problem. I have a black phone and am now concerned that I will be unable to detect if there is a problem lurking.

 

[TSX]

3GS processor are underclocked from 833MHz to 600MHz

I know that, what I was saying was maybe his processor was overclocked causing it to produce a high amount of heat.

 

[joro]

Well people said they wanted different color iPhones didn’t they?

 

[Gamst]

The people with white phones are somewhat lucky because they can SEE the discoloration to know they have a problem. I have a black phone and am now concerned that I will be unable to detect if there is a problem lurking.

So what you are saying is, what if my black iPhone discolours, but I can't see the discolouration, because it is black?

 

[joro]

So what you are saying is, what if my black iPhone discolours, but I can't see the discolouration, because it is black?

[sarcasm] Oh My, RACIST! [/sarcasm]

 

[daneoni]

The people with white phones are somewhat lucky because they can SEE the discoloration to know they have a problem. I have a black phone and am now concerned that I will be unable to detect if there is a problem lurking.

Ditto but it seems fine thus far...no cracks, dead pixels etc but it did get really hot once during GPS/Compass/Map use

 

[bvp663]

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2659/3678550477_8c24e0b75e_b.jpg

Thanks for posting this! I keep hearing all these reports of "many white users affected by overheating and case discoloration", but the only photos they ever reference are those ones that came out from that group in france. It seems like if it was a widespread issue there'd be more folks posting photos like yourself.

 

[egraphixstudios]

I Popped into a Apple shop in the Bullring today and spoke to a apple lady regarding the burn marks on the white iphones.

She said: She hasnt actually seen anyone with the issue, BUT Apple will NOT swap the units as they can only be burnt if they are "rubbed" against "something."

She went onto mention how "whole" of the back should be burnt rather than the outsides of the battery.

The battery obviously is flat and doesnt sit flush with the bend in the out/back casing.

It seems Apple inniately are not going to "care" of customers with new iphone 3gs white purchases.

 

[jod1921]

You would have to see the inside of the case to see if it is an apple issue or from using a 2.00 leather case. I bought a 2.00 case from amazon that i'm sure would do something like stain the hell out of a white Iphone. I didn't even bring it in the house it stunk so bad. I wouldn't be surprised if alot of these complaints aren't apples fault. Alot of people are pissed everyone wants an Iphone.

 

[iHateMacs]

I Popped into a Apple shop in the Bullring today and spoke to a apple lady regarding the burn marks on the white iphones.

Was she the cute one with the brace?