Comments on: iPhone caught on Fire

By: Me

Me — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:18:04 +0000

A similar thing happened to a friend with a 3G. It didn’t happen randomly though. It happened because his baby put the connector in her mouth before he plugged it in. I suppose the wet contacts flipped out. Not sure if he plugged it in knowing it was wet or how he worked out she did that if he didn’t know it was wet…

By: Tim

Tim — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 21:42:39 +0000

Exactly the same thing happened to my iPhone this morning, after I’d left it charging on the USB port for about 3 hours. My hypothesis is that it is caused by the phone heating up and igniting fluff which was caught up in the recesses of the adaptor and/or the phone.

In any case there were flames and a couple of pins fused together which means it will no longer connect, even with a replacement lead. The handset needs to be replaced. I can’t believe Apple isn’t aware of this issue. The consequences of going out and leaving your phone on charge could be far, far worse than a melted handset.

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:36:56 +0000

The exact same thing happened to me this weekend.

By: Linus

Linus — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:47:11 +0000

hmm ok, would you mind if we emailed you some questions about this case?! we would love to know if there are anything else to this story..

By: Himitsu

Himitsu — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:58:41 +0000

Actually Ive got quite reliable information that he only contacted apple once and that telia took up everything once he went to the press.

(Im kinda a friend of his friend)