iPhone 3G hits melting-point, burns sleeping dude’s leg
By Will Park on Friday, August 1st, 2008 at 5:45 PM PST In Announcements, Apple, iPhone, iPhone OS
The iPhone 3G is the new hotness. It’s so hot, in fact, that iPhone 3G hopefuls are still hitting backorder-walls at Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) Stores nationwide, three weeks after its initial global launch. But, we’re speaking in metaphorical terms here.
Metaphorical terms, that is, unless you’re MacForums user LonginottiFilms. He’s apparently had his iPhone 3G get so hot that it started to warp the casing and gave him a nasty burn where the sun don’t shine. The guy apparently fell asleep with the iPhone 3G in his pocket, and woke up to a burning sensation on his leg.
Lo and behold, he found that his iPhone 3G was so hot that the casing had warped and bulged out. He was left with a nice little iPhone 3G-sized burn mark on his thigh.
Push email, 3G, and screen was set to auto-lock after a minute, so intense data transfers couldn’t have caused the iPhone 3G in question to overheat to skin-burning temps.
Perhaps the li-ion battery was in the early stages of overheating and discharging? Has anyone else experienced overheating issues with their iPhone 3G?
[Via: MacRumors]
Yup. Leave GPS on and the damn thing will cook whatevers in contact with it. At least my unit does, dunno if I should get it replaced or whether its normal.
so if i want blue one i need it to overheat and gve me a third degree burn…..
The phone is actually a standard black 3g, hold one up to a REALLY bright light and it appears blue.
A swede’s iPhone was hawing Flaming Sideburns during charging.
http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article3133594.ab
“No refund, no replacement unit. Pay your bills.” … until the dude went to the press. Nice iPR, Apple.
Yes strange Apple and Telia in sweden only say
he can only blaim him self because the iPhone burn up.
The only thing Apple/Telia said was Sorry u need pay your contract for 18 months , and the dude dont even have a i? phone…
I actually felt my phone through my handbag today - I had not used my 3g iphone hardly at all this morning and while shopping felt a burning sensation and it was the phone i felt through my handbag!!!
I have gone through 5 iphone 3G’s in the past 3 days. They have all caught on fire. I’m done with iphone’s. Hopefully AT&T can give me a different phone