Just a week after we reported that an iPhone had overheated, melting a mat, video footage has emerged of an iPhone allegedly exploding in a 17-year-old’s pocket.
Finnish news site Kauppalehti has obtained security camera footage of Henri Helminen leaving a van and walking calmly away as smoke billows from his back pocket, he eventually pulls the smouldering device out of his pocket and throws it to the floor.
Helminen told Kauppalehti: “The phone was working perfectly” before the incident.
These kinds of overheating incidents are frequently the result of a previous knock or liquid intrusion, either of which can disrupt the internal circuitry and cause short-circuits. Ivanov has said she dropped the iPhone 3GS into a swimming pool more than a year before it overheated, but thought she's solved the problem by leaving the iPhone in a bowl of rice for a few days.
You can watch the video here.
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ffistometer said on Thu, 05 Jul 2012
Heaven's MacWorld - this is OLD news... see
9to5mac.com of 2nd july
Also note in the comments the big suspicions this is likely a fake probably of a major well known deperate Finish phone maker's origin ;)
Macdemon said on Thu, 05 Jul 2012
....................And it just happens to have been filmed by the overhead camera, yeah right.
This idiot must think we're fools.
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