[topher]

Is China a 110 Volt or 220 Volt Country? Or does it have a different standard for standard electric outlets.

Basically, Europe is 220 Volt versus the US 110 Volt.

[topher]

surge protection problem with IPHONE [while charging]?

[Sherman Logan]

Sherm be skeptical.

The itsy-bitsy wire of the charger seems to me unlikely to be capable of even carrying a lethal charge.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Sounds like a nearby lightning strike to me.

[George from New England]

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.

[Gay State Conservative]

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.

[Da Coyote]

Something smells very Obama-y about this.

Awaiting examination by folks other than MSM engineering flunkouts on this.

[driftdiver]

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.

[thackney]

he electricity in China is generally 220V, 50HZ, AC (Hong Kong is 220V; Taiwan is 110V)

[catnipman]

China is a 220 Volt Country.

[Izzy Dunne]

Is China a 110 Volt or 220 Volt Country?

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.

[Revolting cat!]

First we learned that using Apple products causes homosexuality, now this! When and where will it end?

[A.A. Cunningham]

Where’s the link?

[RobertClark]

Is China a 110 Volt or 220 Volt Country? Or does it have a different standard for standard electric outlets. Basically, Europe is 220 Volt versus the US 110 Volt.

Doesn't matter. The conversion to 5 to 12 vDC occurs in the charger.

[Minutemen]

Phone made in China with Chinese made parts ...no doubt.

[Still Thinking]

AC wall voltage is confined to the wall wart. It's converted in there to low-voltage DC; the cable that runs from there to your phone is USB-level power (5V?). So for this to happen, there would have to have been a fault in the wall wart that allowed line voltage into the low voltage side of the circuit, and from there to the phone. Extremely uncommon, but not totally impossible, especially if the wall wart was made in China by an ex-dog food manufacturer.

But....if you put line voltage into your phone, it would most likely explode or catch on fire, or cease working, or something noticeable. For the phone to not only appear normal, but also continue to work, and ring on an incoming call while there was line voltage present in the phone, is pretty unlikely.

And finally, the amount of insulation required to render 120V or 220V safe is pretty small, so even if the wall voltage was present in the phone in some bizarre way that didn't prevent it from working, the phone's plastic case would more than likely be adequate for insulation from shock, let alone electrocution.

I call urban legend.

[Secret Agent Man]

not everywhere. uk is 110v, but 50 Hz, not US 120v 60 Hz.

[cll]

Was her name Sum Ting Wong, too?

[Magnum44]