| Re: Exploding iPhones!
This really does sound like a load of hysterical nonsense by the press. They've sold 200 million iPods and iPhones and a handful of kids have claimed they've 'exploded'.
The one doing the rounds in the UK press a while back was the guy who claimed his daughter's iPod had exploded and Apple had insisted he told no-one and signed a non-disclosure agreement. I read the story in three or four different papers/websites and each was different. One said the Father had dropped it before it 'exploded', another said the daughter had dropped it, another made no reference at all to it being dropped. One said something like it had started to 'fizz', so he dramatically chucked it out the back door, seconds before it exploded several feet into the air! Several feet into the air? Do Apple pack these things with semtex?
Only one report carried Apple's response to the claims, which basically said they had asked him, quite reasonably, to return the iPod to them for analysis and offered to send a courier to pick it up and it would be taken to Apple HQ in California. He refused and demanded that Apple sent a personal representative to his house. It was suggested the 'non-disclosure agreement' was a pretty standard piece of legalise as part of a compensation offer. I suspect the iPod was out of warranty as otherwise he would surely have just got his money back?
I don't doubt these batteries can suffer rare catastrophic meltdowns resulting in burnt iPods, but claims of explosions sound like the press doing their usual sensationalist job with the facts.
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19-08-2009, 3:56 PM
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