Source: Tom's Guide US | Keywords: French, Teenager, iPhone, shatter, explode | Themes: Audio/Video Players, Smartphones
A French teenager was injured after his girlfriend's iPhone shattered and a piece of the device hit him in the face.
According to the AFP, the teen claims his girlfriend's iPhone shattered, resulting in an eye injury for him. The phone began making a hissing noise and the screen suddenly broke, sending pieces flying in the air, the boy's mother told the AFP.
"My son was frightened but he did not lose an eye," said Marie-Dominique Kolega.
The news echoes a similar and very recent story from the UK. Apple reportedly try to buy the silence of an 11-year-old Liverpudlian and her family after her father complained that her iPod had exploded. Ken Stanborough says he dropped his daughter's iPod and it started to make a hissing noise. Stanborough picked up the device and, upon feeling the iPod getting hotter in his hand, threw it out into the back yard where within 30 seconds, the device "popped" and jumped 10 feet into the air in a puff of smoke.
After contacting Apple, the Briton claims the Cupertino-based company offered him a full refund but stipulated that in accepting the refund, the family was agreeing to not tell anyone about episode.
While the AFP reports that the mother of the French teen contacted Apple, the company's response is not yet known.
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I rarely approve of suing but when a product explodes in your face.
Lawsuit go go go!
LoL, let the iPhone haters comments commence...
I agree i'd sue too to try to get somthing for my injuries. this isn't somthing like sueing the state for falling down a manhole while you were texting and walking at the same time. and besides its not like you can change the battery because the Iphone doesn't allow you too
Wow they can even explode now? watch apple charge you 50 dollars for the privilege.
The question is what is the expectation of suitable customer use? These "explosions" have all been the result of overheating or impact that has caused the battery to rupture and go into thermal runaway leading to vaporization. Any lithium based battery has the potential to do this, so why not sue the lithium battery manufacturers or call for all lithium batteries to be recalled?
Simple, because we LOVE lithium batteries! Responsible owners take care of their devices and as such, they avert disaster. Should there be plenty of warnings on Lithium devices? You bet! Should there be safety mechanisms internal to the device? You bet! Should we let people sue just because they found a new, interesting way to cause their device to fail? That's the question here.
LoL, let the iPhone haters comments commence...
Obviously there's no need to bash Apple. They do a good enough job on their own.
LoL, let the iPhone haters comments commence...
I think you underestimate us. We hate all of Apple, not just there iTickingTimeBomb.
Actually customers shouldn't buy Apple thing...
Finally someone get hurt! Not the hard hopefully!
"You're so HOT with your IPod"... but someday he'll explode in your face!
So called "Quality" product tagged with an Apple is a time bomb.
I can just recommend people to doesn't buy Apple anymore.
Please everyone, Apple is greed anyway.
I find the fact that Apple tried to silence the one family very, very shady. If I knew about the other incident and that Apple used money to keep it silent, I'd sue them so hard.
I don't hate Apple, and even I smell some fishy business going on here. Hiding a dangerous facet of their device not only is immoral, but if found out, can cause a huge loss in user trust/userbase.
LoL, let the iPhone haters comments commence...
Will you still say that when your iPhone explodes, assuming it doesn't blow off your face leaving you unable to talk of course.
I probably hate Apple more than anyone. But I can still smell sensationalized bull shit when I read it. I think as this idea of exploding iPods becomes more popular, you will start to see many more "news" stories comming out.
These "explosions" have all been the result of overheating or impact that has caused the battery to rupture and go into thermal runaway leading to vaporization. Any lithium based battery has the potential to do this.
How many mobile phones are there in the world, how many get dropped on the floor on a regular basis. Why dont we ask Sony Ericsson, Nokia and Motorola. How about we see how many other mobile phones explode when suffering a gravity related incident.
If the number of exploding phone indicents is about average per capita of user then I will agree with you, if it is significantly higher then Apple needs to sort this out or have the regulators step in to recall them as dangerous.
Not enough information here to make an educated statement, but Apple trying to buy silence from a random accident just makes them look guilty, they could have handled that better.
Need an on the fly hand grenade for those sticky situations? Theres an app for that!
ibomb
As said, it is LI-Ion batteries, But is there a way they could have packed it better to make this issue not happen?
I mean, my laptop never blew up even with lots of heat. My Zen has been through allot, no boom. You have to wonder if some corners where cut to make the machine thinner or more powerful without thinking of heat and battery protection.
Is there anyone one has NEVER dropped a phone/mp3 player ect? accidents happen and should not cause it to blow up.
I agree with back_by_demand - the ipod and iphone are by definition of their purpose mobile devices - designed to be portable, with that comes a reasonable expectation that they may be dropped, knocked etc, and while i wouldn't expect apple to make the device indestructable , it is reasonable to expect volatile chemicals contained within the device to be safely contained when the device is used normally or even misused within the context of extreme wear and tear....
Need an on the fly hand grenade for those sticky situations? Theres an app for that!
Post of the day!!!!!
The FBI and CIA have a new weapon in their arsenal.. Give a "present" to the people they hate and hope they drop it hehe..
Now, let's drop Apple and see what happens.
First UK, now France.
I'll bet the problem is with 220V chargers.
Shame on you, Europe, for maintaining a power grid not iCompatible!
First UK, now France.
I'll bet the problem is with 220V chargers.
Shame on you, Europe, for maintaining a power grid not iCompatible!
Her phone probably got an sms from a hacker. Wouldnt that be a fun vulnerabliity
Exploding iPhones is not a fault its a feature! They must have activated the self destruct sequence at a inappropriate time which caused this injury. Their actions lead to this so its their fault.
-Apple
this funny....I have some RC cars that use Li-Polymer batteries (much more unstable than Li-Ion) that I have driven the shit out of and hit all sorts of things with.....they never have blown up on me (and when I say hit shit, I mean at 30+ mph)
Apple is to blame here, not the batteries
I can hear the headlines now. "Iphones! The new IED!"
Wow they can even explode now? watch apple charge you 50 dollars for the privilege.
haha it'll be an "approved" App. Make your Iphone explode!!
^ app name is Ixplode
Apple is a terrorist!
All Iphone have secret bomb, a timed bomb, indeed.
Holy Hand Grenades were just replaced by Holy iExplode Cellphone.
Do you suppose the iPhone will be covered by the warranty? Or will the internal monitoring technology, recently highlighted in Tom's daily news, record this as a user mishandling incident?
Alright here is the deal
We will give you a refund, if you want we can even give you another iphone for free. the thing is that, you have to stfu and dont tell anybody about how shitty our "Its just works" products are. Ok ? deal ?