iPhone 6 Plus Explodes While Charging on Bedside Table [Photo]
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Posted July 6, 2015 at 2:38pm by iClarified
An iPhone 6 Plus has exploded in Tai Wai, Hong Kong while being charged on a bedside table, reports Apple Daily.
The owner, a woman surnamed Tsang, plugged her 128GB iPhone 6 Plus in to charge at around 1am on Saturday, leaving it on the desk next to her bed. At around 8am she was awakened by a loud bang and saw the smartphone on fire.
Tsang put out the fire using a pillow and was not injured. The picture of the phone after the explosion shows the back cover and the protective case melted by the heat.
The iPhone was being charged using an official charging cable for the iPad which Apple lists as being compatible with the iPhone as well.
Lo Kok-kung from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University said the explosion could be due to a short circuit or overcharging.
“The auto power cut-off feature of the handset for charging could have been out of order, hence the battery was overcharged and exploded due to excessive heat,” Lo said.
We've heard numerous reports of iPhone's exploding over the years. Most recently, an iPhone 5C exploded in a man's pocket giving him second and third degree burns. However, most incidents are a result of using unofficial third party chargers.
Once my iPhone 5S was kept in the sun on my car dashboard, it became very hot and gave message of overheating and turned off automatically. So I believe it is not possible for an iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch.
This is so fake. Apple products could never do this. Apple products are expertly made with the finest details. This is probably just android propaganda. All hail the new world order. All hail apple.
Who do you think Apple is? Samsung? Apple takes that into account and makes the most durable and dependable phone. There are no issues with Apple devices, no matter how you treat it.
It will heat up much more if you don't leave it in and make it always charge fast.
The last percent are charged at a much slower rate.
You should get a 500ma charger it you don't want it to heat up, that would also extend battery life-time.
Yes wozzy, that's what I am saying. It's more dependable if people are careful with it like me. I always take it easy with risks and think twice. Like I said, it depends.
these things scare the he11 outta me.
my new BB Passport has a 3450 ma battery, probably the largest in any phone.
That mean it could (theoretically) supply 3.45 amps for an hour. Thats a lot of power should it all, for some reason, be released over a short period of time, ie an internal short for example.
I refuse to carry it in my pocket for that reason, even though i've yet to hear about a BB blowing up.
It's time for wireless charging so there's no mistake what charging cable the person was using ! Oh apple wouldn't like to loose all that extra cable money they make off those cheap cables they make !
You do realize to much charge can happen and make the phone explode so it could do the same thing to, but who needs the exact same way to charge? There exists countless motion powered chargers to take advantage of charging anywhere without wall outlets. If you think about it though, wireless uses a wire to charge to so technically it changes nothing except not having to plug in a phone... then again you still plug it in a wall so still, nothing changed with wireless.
And what is so cheap about app,e cables? I own 3 with 2 being the same and one shorter one and I used all of them since 2013 and I haven't had a problem with them because I once charged from wall outlets up to when I started using an ampy (which I once again am referring to motion chargers).
I've returned 3 broken and got free replacements I order now the China ones and never had one break yet ! At lease 3 times the strength of apples So why am I breaking my apple cables I don't know they are hooked to my MacBook Pro and they just keep breaking !
It has that but if there is a short in the charger and it gets 200volts it won't be able to stop that from burning the circuits in the cable and phone causing more shorts for example.
Or if there is a discharge in the ac system it could easily get 500volts....