(Marcio Jose Sanchez / Associated Press)
Posted on 10/21/2016 6:37:09 PM PDT by Swordmaker
Another newly shipped Apple iPhone 7 caught fire and destroyed a car in what looks similar to the same type of battery fires that forced a worldwide recall of all Samsung Galaxy Note 7 units.
Australian surfing instructor Mat Jones says that he left his week-old iPhone 7 covered by a pair of pants in his car while he went out to give a lesson.
When Jones came back from surfing, he immediately noticed that all the windows of his car were blacked-out. As Jones opened the car’s door, he was hit by a big heat wave, and then smoke started billowing out of the vehicle.
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Yeah, um.. That’s 13 year old Maddie Ziegler.
Nope, doesn't. . . but perhaps it can cool down an over heating phone.
But that might keep it from igniting a pile of clothing. . . kinda Zen, don't you think? A Zen bowl of sand. . . get a little rack to make it smooth with nice circular ridges?
Actually, she looks as if she is channeling a six year old. . . and a vacant six year old at that.
You can bet someone will.
The izen! The next must have i-accessory!
Picky, Picky, Picky! Sheesh, You’ve been watching to much Trump/Clinton BS on TeeVee! Enjoy a light comment like mine!
Apple and batteries catching on fire has been a problem with Apple since almost forever. This is not a new problem for Apple
A circus clown?
Very nice. Put it in a closable nonflamable case with a handle for portability.
Ah yes, so are you so insecure in your celebrated ignorance that all you have is “gay” jokes? My grandkids would be embarrassed to associate with you, and they have pretty low standards.
If you don’t like Apple, fine. Do not ever buy an Apple product. It do not be so arrogant as to presume you have a right to dictate how I chose to spend my income. I have done R&D for 28 years on computers. I know far more about what is happening on that motherboard than you could begin to understand. I know Windows insideout. I chose Apple at home.
I doubt you even know where the power button is on a Mac.
Ignorance can be fixed. Stupid cannot. You are unfortunately not fixable
Sources? The. Lithium batteries have always had an issue with exothermic events. It's a flaw in the current technology.
Personally, I have high hopes for SolidEnergy. The 2016 capacity has been take. By the US Govt for drone use. 2017 is the year they expand to cell phones and 2018 they move to automobiles.
I have to jump in on this. I was a happy owner of a Note 7, I swapped it out for a S7 Edge.
The N7 was an amazing device that got hamstrung by its battery. Was is poor design or poor quality control? Who knows.
But all smartphones with Li Ion batteries have the potential to catastrophically fail.
The N7 had a higher than normal failure rate and Samsung issued the recall. But by doing so they also opened Pandora’s Box.
We live in a very ligatious society, insurance fraud is rampant. The media for a few days replaced Trump with the Note 7 and the most despised & dangerous thing on the planet. And as any Freeper knows, once the media gets on their narrative kick, they will ride that horse into the ground. And not to get any Apple fans in a twist, I would not be surprised if Apple didn’t offer some $ to keep the media on the heels of their #1 competitor.
The Note 7 is in the history books. But here is where Pandora’s Box comes in. Be it from design flaw to manufacturing defect to owner mishandling LiOn battery powered smartphones have the potential to thermogenically go up in flames and right now the new iPhone 7 series seem to be in the cross hairs.
I hope the saying “Necessity is the mother of inventions” and Samsung finds either a suitable replacement for Li Io batteries or a better manufacturing process to cut down failures.
When the Note 8 comes out, I will be first in line.
Actually, no, it has not. You can count the number of iPhones that have caught fire on the fingers of two hands. Apple instituted a recall of 32,000 batteries for laptops over six overheating Sony made batteries, none caught fire. In the same month, Dell and HP had to recall 360,000 Sony made batteries and some had actually caught fires, causing injury and property damage. Apple got the headlines. When an Apple device does have a problem, it makes headlines. . . but it is a RARE event.
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