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Yup, now the iPhone 7 is exploding
Boy Genius Report ^ | Sep 29, 2016 | Zach Epstein

Posted on 09/29/2016 2:43:12 PM PDT by Shanghai Dan

The world’s leading smartphone makers just can’t stop copying each other. While the company has certainly improved its image over the past few years, Samsung is likely most famous for being an Apple copycat. After all, the company was sued repeatedly by Apple for stealing its technology and designs. And as we all learned, things got so crazy at one point that Samsung even created a 132-page internal document to help its engineers copy the iPhone pixel by pixel. Of course, Apple is hardly innocent in all this. The iPhone maker has aped plenty of features from Android in recent years, and it probably never would have made iPhones with large displays if Samsung hadn’t paved the way.


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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: exploding; iphone; safety
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Note: this is from BGR, a self-admitted Apple fan site. Now iPhones are blowing up as well, we'll see how Apple deals with this one.
1 posted on 09/29/2016 2:43:13 PM PDT by Shanghai Dan
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To: Shanghai Dan

Well, that settles it. The UN needs to control the sale, use, and content of all cell phones in the US.


2 posted on 09/29/2016 2:44:24 PM PDT by CatOwner
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To: CatOwner
We clearly need to control them, as I am sure they will become all the rage for ISIS:


3 posted on 09/29/2016 2:45:40 PM PDT by Shanghai Dan (I ride a GS scooter with my hair cut neat...)
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To: Shanghai Dan

Fake.

If real, the box would have burned.


4 posted on 09/29/2016 2:52:22 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: Shanghai Dan

iPhone by iSIS.


5 posted on 09/29/2016 2:52:26 PM PDT by PLMerite (Compromise is Surrender: The Revolution...will not be kind.)
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To: Shanghai Dan

The Reddit discussion:

https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/54te00/running_a_little_hot/


6 posted on 09/29/2016 2:56:54 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: Shanghai Dan

Yeah but its Apple so its not a flaw but a feature.


7 posted on 09/29/2016 2:57:13 PM PDT by aft_lizard
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To: aft_lizard

so true


8 posted on 09/29/2016 2:59:14 PM PDT by manc ( If they want so called marriage equality then they should support polygamy too.)
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To: cynwoody

Maybe it wasn’t in the box, hmm?


9 posted on 09/29/2016 3:00:54 PM PDT by ozzymandus
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ive had my windows phone and nvr had any issues.....cant stand crapple anything...


10 posted on 09/29/2016 3:02:43 PM PDT by raygunfan
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To: aft_lizard

Is there an app for that?


11 posted on 09/29/2016 3:03:20 PM PDT by HotKat (Politicians are like diapers; they need to be changed often and for the same reason. Mark Twain)
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To: Shanghai Dan

Looks like the box might have been torn up in transit. I wonder if the phone was damaged when the box was torn and that triggered the meltdown.


12 posted on 09/29/2016 3:09:12 PM PDT by Flying Circus (God help us!)
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To: cynwoody

yeah that looks more like a slow chemical reaction - like a leaking battery - instead of a lithium “fire” battery.


13 posted on 09/29/2016 3:11:39 PM PDT by reed13k (r)
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To: Shanghai Dan

Who makes the battery? I know laptop manufactures do not make their own batteries. Is the same true with cell phones.


14 posted on 09/29/2016 3:13:25 PM PDT by ThomasThomas (Fools find no pleasure in understanding but delight in airing their own opinions.)
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To: Shanghai Dan

Batteries that blow and Tim Cook... the jokes write themselves.


15 posted on 09/29/2016 3:14:53 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: Shanghai Dan

Exploding phones, 1st the Samsung note 7, now the iPhone7 Has ISIS developed a secret plan?


16 posted on 09/29/2016 3:15:07 PM PDT by TruthWillWin (The problem with socialists is that you eventually run out of other peoples money.)
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To: aft_lizard
Yeah but its Apple so its not a flaw but a feature.

It was a higher quality explosion than the Samsung.

17 posted on 09/29/2016 3:15:44 PM PDT by Hacksaw (I haven't taken the 30 silvers.)
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To: Shanghai Dan

I’d say phones are getting to the place where some pointless ambition of the sellers is ahead of R+D.


18 posted on 09/29/2016 3:20:45 PM PDT by TalBlack (Evil doesn't have a day job....)
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To: Shanghai Dan

Must be something about the number 7, bad luck for phones. Take note LG, your time is coming.


19 posted on 09/29/2016 3:26:13 PM PDT by dangerdoc ((this space for rent))
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To: ozzymandus; Swordmaker

“Maybe it wasn’t in the box, hmm?”
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If you had read the article, you’d have seen that it was like that when he first received and opened the box. This has been the one and only example of this happening that I’ve seen.

Extract from linked article:

“...Unlike Samsung’s somewhat widespread Galaxy Note 7 problem that was due to a battery defect, however, this iPhone exploded while in transit, according to the phone’s owner. When he received the iPhone he ordered and took it out of the box, this is what he found....”


20 posted on 09/29/2016 3:41:39 PM PDT by House Atreides (Send BOTH Hillary & Bill to prison.)
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