Apple to Exploding iPhones: Screen Pressure not Battery to Blame
Apple has finished their investigation in the case of the exploding iPhones/Pods and the results are not shocking – the battery malfunction theory has been rejected. It was first rumored that defective batteries were more than likely the cause of the devices going boom but as it turns out, excess force was the reason – according to Apple.
“The iPhones with broken glass that we have analysed to date show that in all cases the glass cracked due to an external force that was applied to the iPhone.”
With 26 million iPhones and 200 million iPods sold to date, Apple claims there are zero confirmed battery overheating incidents for iPhone 3GS and the number of reports of overheating they have investigated are in the single digits.
So are you buying what Apple is selling? Could these isolated incidents actually be due to excessive force in every case or could there still be something up with those batteries? What do you think?
[Via Mac Daily News}
August 28th, 2009 at 10:57 am
I am shocked…SHOCKED…that an Apple investigation would come to the singular conclusion that somebody besides Apple is at fault in every case.
August 28th, 2009 at 10:58 am
Umm, so is that better than if it were the battery? Are they saying that the iPhone can be used as a landmine?
New app coming to the app store: press hard here for explosion
August 28th, 2009 at 11:21 am
@Joe heelarious
August 28th, 2009 at 11:25 am
@ Joe, best post ever!
August 28th, 2009 at 11:29 am
@Joe
lol, nice.
Explosions.. Theres an app for that.
August 28th, 2009 at 11:55 am
There are something like 50 million iPhone and iPod Touch out there. If exploding batteries were an issue, there would be a huge class-action suit out there. These are isolated incidents, that’s pretty clear. So many people have these that it would be apparent if this were a real issue.
August 28th, 2009 at 12:21 pm
We all know that lithium batteries will explode if they get too hot.
There is a documented case of a woman who left her iPhone in the back window of her car all afternoon. When she returned to her car she found compelling evidence that the iPhone had exploded with such force that it smashed the back window.
it appeared that the force was so great that the iPhone went flying. In fact, they never found the iPhone.
August 28th, 2009 at 12:26 pm
New in the Iraq iPhone App Store:
IED – Improvised Explosive Device from Al Kida * just set it on the road and forget it * remote activation via text, wifi, 3G, Edge, IM * no tethering required ** MMS not available in ATT coverage areas
August 28th, 2009 at 12:45 pm
@Don ROFL! if you’ll let me know which car window it’s near, I’ll make sure YOUR iPhone breaks that one too.
August 28th, 2009 at 12:49 pm
I think tomtom needs to provide some goggles to wear while using that dash mount. I can just imagine someone driving along, iphone 3GS blazing away streaming audio, tomtom app right along with the sun beating down it and BOOM…
August 28th, 2009 at 1:32 pm
Ok… Why the heck would someone tap a screen on this thing that hard to cause it to crack??? Sorry Apple… Try again.
August 28th, 2009 at 1:34 pm
@Alkida
Just set it, and forget it!
LOL!! ROFL!!
August 28th, 2009 at 2:32 pm
@Don that sounds more like someone broke the window and stole the iPhone. Lol either that or I am not picking up on the sarcasm.
August 28th, 2009 at 2:33 pm
Apple passing the blame? I for one am shocked.
August 28th, 2009 at 2:36 pm
@Joost:
The same people who use those lame and tiresome “fat finger” excuses.
August 28th, 2009 at 2:43 pm
@AlKida & Joe
Freaking high larry us!!!
“This just in. iPhone sales have quadrupled. Armed Forces and Al Qaeda says it just works! Whatever we want…there’s an app for that”
August 28th, 2009 at 2:47 pm
“Apple claims there are zero confirmed battery overheating incidents for iPhone 3GS” I had to get my iPhone 3GS replaced last week because the battery overheated and would not power back up.
August 28th, 2009 at 3:01 pm
I am interesting about what those people were doing,for what the heck purpose and were they supplied by nokia?
August 28th, 2009 at 4:44 pm
@joost:
Nobody claimed it was tapped. Maybe they sat on something hard forgetting it was in their pocket, bending the phone enough to break the glass. Maybe they just dropped it.
And maybe you can have a battery short out and bulge enough to break the glass. To do so, it would have to break the main circuit board, and two sheets of thin metal (one on either side of the board).
But when you look at all the picture on the web of these exploded phones there is no evidence that the explosion happened outward. The screens are simply shattered. Some images even show corner impact patterns.
The most hyped picture is this one: ttp://blog.integricity.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/iphone-explode.jpg
However, if you look here: http://tinyurl.com/mpe473 you will see that there is no quarter-sized circular object in the iphone at the location where it appears in the first foto.
I think most of these that I have seen are faked pictures.
August 28th, 2009 at 4:45 pm
Ooops, bad first link, dropped the leading h…
http://blog.integricity.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/iphone-explode.jpg
August 28th, 2009 at 5:10 pm
Some iPhone actually can fly! Seriously
http://pieroxy.blogspot.com/2009/08/news-from-missouri-my-iphone-flew-away.html
August 28th, 2009 at 5:11 pm
Overheating bateries, yes. batteries causing discolouration, possibly. Exploding iPhones, extreamly doubtfull. Anything concerning Companies like Apple hits global news. Like law suits and tv coverage wouldn’t be all over that.
August 28th, 2009 at 7:05 pm
Lots of bad publicity for iphone. this was on all major tv channels
August 28th, 2009 at 8:08 pm
If Apple can make a news story about every lame app that comes out, they gotta expect the same amount of coverage when something goes wrong.
IMO, its obvious what the problem is… These people blaspemed the Jesus Phone and got smited…
August 28th, 2009 at 10:13 pm
No surprises here. Apple would have lawsuits flying at them if iPhones were exploding!
August 29th, 2009 at 8:57 am
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:/:(
August 30th, 2009 at 3:41 am
Apple might need to include safety glasses with the other accessories when they release the next phone.LOL
August 31st, 2009 at 6:56 am
get a storm and this won’t happen lol
September 5th, 2009 at 1:35 am
So if some idiot puts their iPhone in the microwave for 5 minutes and it explodes will they blame Apple for that? There has got to be some common sense out there somewhere in the world!
October 8th, 2009 at 12:07 am
tee hee hee hee hee iPhones are taking over the world! Apple #1!
November 8th, 2009 at 9:12 am
you all are overlooking one very important thing. what to major companies do when there is an actual problem with something? they recall it. i haven’t heard anything about an iphone recall, so i’m going to assume that the claims are greatly exagerated.