Plastic? What plastic? Link and proof. iPhones are made out of aircraft grade Aluminum 7000 Alloy and Gorilla Glass with very little plastic even inside for very small circuit boards covered by a lot of metal shielding. Most likely you saw a plastic Android phone. . . if you saw anything at all.
iPhones are perfectly OK for being charged and used at the same time so long as they are being charged with Apple approved "Made for iPhone" switching power supply chargers that meet the specs Apple has published.
It was powered up and charging (plugged into the car power plug) while it happened. That meant that there was continuous supply of power while the phone melted down.
The car ignition was turned while the owner went into the building. So he wasn't present when it happened (thank God) but it had to happen very quickly because he wasn't gone more than a few minutes.
I just shot some pix and it is clear that the area of the cabin near the phone reached very high temperatures. The front windshield on the passenger side started to melt along with the passenger side window. The passenger seat is also charred black with the seat missing all of the padding. The driver seat and surrounding areas are not burned.
It is clear that whatever caused the damage was sitting near or on the passenger seat and the phone was sitting on the passenger seat. What was left of the phone was sitting below what was left of the passenger seat (it fell through the seat springs).
It is indeed an Iphone and we are trying to recover the contacts information since this is critical to the business. The owner is not super technical and doesn't know if his contacts are backed up to the “cloud.” We are working with his provider.
I was the one who helped put the fire out. Clearly a person in the car would be severely injured if not die. The driver's side window was open and I actually thought that the owner was still in the car; it was difficult to tell since there was flames and smoke pouring out of the window.
It was powered up and charging (plugged into the car power plug) while it happened. That meant that there was continuous supply of power while the phone melted down.
The car ignition was turned while the owner went into the building. So he wasn't present when it happened (thank God) but it had to happen very quickly because he wasn't gone more than a few minutes.
I just shot some pix and it is clear that the area of the cabin near the phone reached very high temperatures. The front windshield on the passenger side started to melt along with the passenger side window. The passenger seat is also charred black with the seat missing all of the padding. The driver seat and surrounding areas are not burned.
It is clear that whatever caused the damage was sitting near or on the passenger seat and the phone was sitting on the passenger seat. What was left of the phone was sitting below what was left of the passenger seat (it fell through the seat springs).
It is indeed an Iphone and we are trying to recover the contacts information since this is critical to the business. The owner is not super technical and doesn't know if his contacts are backed up to the “cloud.” We are working with his provider.
I was the one who helped put the fire out. Clearly a person in the car would be severely injured if not die. The driver's side window was open and I actually thought that the owner was still in the car; it was difficult to tell since there was flames and smoke pouring out of the window.