Posted on 07/15/2013 9:40:56 AM PDT by topher
Apple said Monday it would investigate claims that a Chinese woman was killed by an electric shock she received when answering a call while the device was charging.
The claim quickly drew attention after a woman in the western region of Xinjiang wrote about the death of her 23-year-old sister Ma Ailun on China's popular microblog service Sina Weibo.
"We will fully investigate and cooperate with authorities in this matter," said Apple's Beijing-based spokeswoman Carolyn Wu, offering condolences to the family.
Basically, Europe is 220 Volt versus the US 110 Volt.
surge protection problem with IPHONE [while charging]?
Sherm be skeptical.
The itsy-bitsy wire of the charger seems to me unlikely to be capable of even carrying a lethal charge.
Sounds like a nearby lightning strike to me.
Maybe the censor in the Chinese govt didn’t like her comments or political persuasion. I wouldn’t put it past the Chicoms to remotely trigger something like this, in her phone.
Just saying, what a way to control your sheeple.
Smooth move.Apple secretly pays the family $50,000,they become the richest family in the country (who don’t work for the government) and everything is hushed up.
Something smells very Obama-y about this.
Awaiting examination by folks other than MSM engineering flunkouts on this.
A quick search shows China to be a 220v country. Perhaps the transformer fried or maybe the ground was bad. She picks up the phone and provides a ground for the electrons.
Its not the volts that kill ya, its the amps. The amps and the burning charred flesh of your heart.
You would be surprised at how small of a current it takes to cause your muscles to contract and make it impossible to move. IIRC it is less than 100 milliamps.
he electricity in China is generally 220V, 50HZ, AC (Hong Kong is 220V; Taiwan is 110V)
You obviously don’t know anything about electricity.
A conductor capable of carrying sufficient current to charge a phone battery can easily carry much more than enough current to kill. For an instant, it can carry many times its rated capacity before burning up. That instant is long enough to kill.
China is a 220 Volt Country.
I will defer to what I assume is your greater expertise in this area.
Although it would not be at all difficult for your expertise to be greater than mine. :)
It shouldn't matter. The phone charges from a low-voltage DC, the kind you get on a USB cable.
The only way this could happen would be for the wall-wart to fail and pass 220VAC onto the charging cable. Not likely, but possible, I suppose.
So, it cannot be the phone's fault. It could be the charger's fault.
No mention of whether it's an Apple charger or some knock-off charger.
Yes, but the voltage must be sufficient to overcome the skin's natural resistance. I think the maximum "safe" voltage is about 25 volts.
However, once you get above that threshold, only about 100 milliamps are required to disrupt the heart, if the electrical path is through your chest.
It's not the voltage but the amperage that will kill you. If part of her body completed the circuit to ground, then the wire from the charging unit could be sufficiently robust to do the job.
The itsy-bitsy wire of the charger seems to me unlikely to be capable of even carrying a lethal charge.
It works great.
An article I read elsewhere says the woman's family claims it was an Apple charger. But, apparently there are even counterfeit Apple chargers.
First we learned that using Apple products causes homosexuality, now this! When and where will it end?
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