Yup, now the iPhone 7 is exploding

Boy Genius Report ^ | Sep 29, 2016 | Zach Epstein

[Shanghai Dan]

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.

[CatOwner]

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

[Shanghai Dan]

We clearly need to control them, as I am sure they will become all the rage for ISIS:

[cynwoody]

Fake.

If real, the box would have burned.

[PLMerite]

iPhone by iSIS.

[cynwoody]

The Reddit discussion:

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

[aft_lizard]

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

[manc]

so true

[ozzymandus]

Maybe it wasn’t in the box, hmm?

[raygunfan]

ive had my windows phone and nvr had any issues.....cant stand crapple anything...

[HotKat]

Is there an app for that?

[Flying Circus]

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.

[reed13k]

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

[ThomasThomas]

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

[mrsmith]

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

[TruthWillWin]

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

[Hacksaw]

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

It was a higher quality explosion than the Samsung.

[TalBlack]

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

[dangerdoc]

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

[House Atreides]

“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....”