Friday, December 2, 2011

Exploding iPhones

An iPhone 4 has supposedly exploded in Brazil, where the phone was plugged in for overnight charging. According to the “Blog do iPhone,” the phone’s owner had the device near the bed when it started smoking and giving off sparks. If it is true, it would the second report of an iPhone 4, Apple’s 2010 model of its popular phone, self-combusting in the last few days. A similar thing happened November 25th to a passenger with an iPhone 4 on an Australian airliner on its way from Lismore to Sydney. That case is being investigated by officials and by Apple.