(Photo: @briannaolivas_ /Twitter)
Posted on 02/24/2017 11:00:38 AM PST by Swordmaker
Smoke reportedly began pouring out of the phone on Wednesday morning
Apple is investigating a report of an iPhone 7 Plus catching fire, after a video of the incident went viral online.
The footage, posted on Twitter by 18-year-old Brianna Olivas from Tucson, Arizona, shows smoke pouring out of one side of the iPhone and the case melting away.
"Dude, what the f***?" Olivas can be heard saying in the background. "Are you f****** serious right now?"
(Video at website)
(Excerpt) Read more at mirror.co.uk ...
Lithium batteries happen.
This will happen time to time. If it becomes a pattern, consult with Samsung, they handled their battery problem in a reasonable manner.
that’ll buff right out
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Might need a little Bondo, too.
In the 1980s, when a 1200baud modem was hot stuff, I grabbed one out of the lab to take on trip. On the back was a lithium battery warning about airplanes.
I started with a 300 baud modem that you set in a phone cradle like a handset... then onwards to 1200, 2400, 9600, 14,400 (if I remember that one correctly).
I'm sitting here with 239/mps internet today. Who knows what the future holds?
This is really serious. Lithium batteries have been declared so dangerous that my suppliers (I’m a watchmaker) can NO longer be shipped by air.
Now, want to know why I’m upset? About 3 weeks ago a man came into my shop, holding his watch dangling by the strap buckle. When I reached for it to replace the battery, he pulled the watch back, exclaiming, “DON’T touch it. The watch is burning HOT.”
I said, “That must be a LITHIUM battery in your watch!!!”
A now very nervous person asked, “How the hell did you know?’ I explained. Niwm I’m the one who’s nervous.
Then there was the battle over which flavor of 56K, and I ended up buying both because of moving and changing ISPs.
“You didn’t get a 56K? “
I’ve forgotten!
That sounds about right.
So how many battery failures in Samsung's new phone did it take for them to kill the product? I don't recall it being anywhere near 90.
Of course, they were dealing with an acknowledged design error, which presumably is not the case with the iPhone 7.
But I'm just wondering, if in fact there were scores of iPhone battery failures in a year, regardless of the other facts of the case (like design flaws or lack thereof), would anybody actually listen to the statistics and say, "Oh, that's okay, that's the expected failure rate"? I doubt it. It would be horrible PR and probably damage sales of the product.
Let's hope the actual failure rate is a lot lower than the prediction.
They were over 220 fires, expanded, or overheated Samsung Galaxy Note 7s world wide on less than 3 million shipped and only 1.5 million sold in less than two and a half months when Samsung finally pulled the plug on the model. Calculated out they were approaching a 1 in 2200 failure rate, far lower than the 1 in 10 million expected failure rate for normal battery failures.
Rest assured that if an iPhone fails in any spectacular fire, or even smokes, it will make headlines. There are not many beyond the normal battery failure rate, if at all, when only a few are reported such as this one.
And the Japanese are building submarines powered by these batteries ...
Oops, nevermind, my bad :-) That's what I get for only skimming the articles on the Samsung stuff.
As an aside, I'm experiencing a higher-than-normal error rate in my brain the past week. Fractured my wrist (slipped on wet ice) and had it operated on 10 days ago, but it hurts like hell, and they gave me codeine painkillers, but after being essentially intoxicant-free for the past decade, the codeine is making me loopy.
"What's the charge, Prosecutor?"
"FWI, your Honor... FReeping While Intoxicated."
"How does the defendant plead?"
"GUILTY, your Honor!"
“And the Japanese are building submarines powered by these batteries ...”
They won’t be able to sneak up on Godzilla with them...
They are quieter than AIG subs ... and as long as Godzilla remains quiet, the Chinese will do.
I know what you mean. That was me last month after my heart attack and a morphine drip. . . loopy as all get out for a week or so.
Different chemistry. LiFEPO4, which is used in things like electric cars, etc. is safer and less volatile than LiPO.
It is also slightly heavier, and takes up more volume, but that’s the price you pay for safety and reliability.
Micro consumer toys and electronics use LiPO to get the maximum battery performance in the smallest volume and weight.
“... is safer and less volatile than LiPO.” Safer, less volatile perhaps (assuming you know exactly what the Japanese are using to make their sub batteries), but not safe and non-volatile In a sub, it seems to me, you’d want safe and non-volatile ‘cause its a long way up to fresh air ...
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