After the ‘cracking iPhone 3G’ news, it seems the iPhone 3G has yet to offer another rather shocking and hopefully one-off problem. Pictured are shots of an overheated and as a result an iPhone 3G with a melted casing. All the hardware is working fine and are intact but the dock connector was damaged which would probably mean that the phone will be useless as it cannot be neither charged nor synced.
Apparently the story behind this was a member of the Mac Rumors forum fell asleep with his iPhone 3G left in his pocket, but he soon woke up in pain to find that his iPhone had overheated and burnt the skin over his leg. When taken out of the pocket, the iPhone 3G was hot and the plastic casing had melted! The user in question had noted that he had disabled 3G as well as push services and the screen was set to auto-lock in a minute, so it was unlikely that this situation should have happened. Take a look at the photos below, hopefully this was just a one off incident, but I reckon this will be a difficult one for the warranty to cover!
[via Mac Rumors Forums]
I never thought that such a smartphone can give you such sort of trouble! The dock connector certainly renders iphone useless if damaged as you said that one cannot charge nor sync. Thanks for sharing this one!
@bluetooth
Yes, this was a shocker! But its likely this was just a one-off case.
Ouch! Nobody mentioned the built in hot plate in any of Apple’s promotional bumpf. This sure is a scorcher! Jokes aside, I wonder if there might be a small fire hazard lurking in these handsets?
..and I just read about a laptop catching fire and taking a chunk out of someones bed just a minute ago only to find this article of another device