Seriously, if you’re iPhone is on fire, you might want to drop it… like it’s hot. Immediately.
While flame-engulfed iPhones are more the exception than the norm, Tim Colburne recently found himself in that rarest of minorities when his iPhone caught fire. Colburne plugged in his iPhone for a little recharging action, only to find that the charger had sparked a fire three hours into the charge-cycle.
“The fire started in the space between the lead and the phone and resulted in a couple of pins fusing together,” Colburne said on his blog. “Although the main functions of the phone are apparently unaffected, the device won’t connect to the computer which means I can neither charge it nor transfer data. Result: one dead iPhone.”
So, the good news is that the iPhone charger-fire left the iPhone functional. The bad news is that the fried dock connector prevents any recharging of the iPhone. Great.
Colburne managed to hunt down another iPhone-on-fire incidient in Sweden back in 2008, so he’s at least part of a 2-person minority with flaming iPhones. And, as far as we know, there’s been one other incident involving a super-heated iPhone and some guy’s burned thigh.
Anyone else out there find their iPhone getting too hot to handle?
[Via: CultOfMac]