IPhone expels smoke, glows on Australia flight

Started by walkstall, November 29, 2011, 08:29:52 PM

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walkstall

Batteries have been problems for year as I remember.

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SAN FRANCISCO — Apple's iPhone is the world's hottest smartphone — and one iPhone in Australia appears to be the hottest of the bunch as it spontaneously began smoking last week.

Regional Australian airline Regional Express described the "mobile phone self combustion" in a statement. It said that an iPhone belonging to a passenger began to expel a "significant amount of dense smoke" and give off a red glow after a flight from Lismore, Australia, landed in Sydney on Friday.

A photo accompanying the statement showed the shattered, warped back of a recent-model black iPhone.

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CubaLibre

Scary to think they still haven't worked out the problems with the batteries.  :o

walkstall

Quote from: CubaLibre on November 30, 2011, 05:36:13 AM
Scary to think they still haven't worked out the problems with the batteries.  :o

I know if you put a 9 Volt battery in your pocket with change it can get very warm.  And very hot if it gets wet.   :-[
A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.- James Freeman Clarke

Always remember "Feelings Aren't Facts."