This is why you don't put your damn phone in the back pocket. Why would anyone think its okay to SIT on your phone? I hate when people do this.
My sister-in-law has an iPhone 5 and treats it like a friggen hockey puck. Literally throws it onto tables, puts it on the floor where it can be stepped on, puts it on wet surfaces, and drops it constantly. She has broken at least 6 smartphones in the past 4 years and still treats them like crap. Sometimes I wish the thing taught her a lesson! (kidding)
Putting costly and fragile electronic devices in your back pocket and bloody well sitting on them, and shifting your weight on them, is NOT the way to take care of your device.
Not Apple's fault.
Don't sit on your devices, folks. This should be obvious, but a good chunk of the under-30 population of today is practically brain-dead.
Update: The handset was in the student's back pocket and made a "popping" noise when she sat down, reports USA Today. Fire officials tell the paper that they believe sitting on the phone cause it to "short out."
I knew.... nice try again...
This is exactly what I speculated.
It's clearly a user error that caused this problem. No phone, tablet, GPS, or laptop can withstand such abuse.
They didn't mention if the phone was in the butt pocket or a side pocket. So, if I suspect that she sat on the phone and caused a short, I would have no proof. I hope more info will come out so that we know what the cause was.
"The handset was in the student's back pocket and made a "popping" noise when she sat down"
"back pocket" would be what she sat down on it seems to me. It made a "popping" noise" when she damaged it by sitting on it, possibly not for the first time since she'd had the phone for a few months.
My sister-in-law has an iPhone 5 and treats it like a friggen hockey puck. Literally throws it onto tables, puts it on the floor where it can be stepped on, puts it on wet surfaces, and drops it constantly. She has broken at least 6 smartphones in the past 4 years and still treats them like crap. Sometimes I wish the thing taught her a lesson! (kidding)
Yeah, I've a buddy that does that, kills phones routinely and in the end it's a mercy since they're so beat up it's hard to look at them (it's amazing how they keep working with screens cracked all to hell....).
She probably had jailbroken her iPhone then ran a program that went haywire, going full blast. The jailbroken iPhone couldn't turn itself off so it started burning.
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The paper purposely removed that information to sensationalize the story.
Journalism is dead.
Could have been a defective battery. Lithium-ion batteries can expand.
Even Boing Dreamliners have had issues.
Ferraris too!
I suggest to call Detective Dee
Joke went over someone's head.
Still I'm amazed people still put their phones in their back pockets. Do people sit on their laptops? Why would you sit on your phone!?
So now we know what the 'c' in 5c stands for..
char your ass
combustible
This is why you don't put your damn phone in the back pocket. Why would anyone think its okay to SIT on your phone? I hate when people do this.
My sister-in-law has an iPhone 5 and treats it like a friggen hockey puck. Literally throws it onto tables, puts it on the floor where it can be stepped on, puts it on wet surfaces, and drops it constantly. She has broken at least 6 smartphones in the past 4 years and still treats them like crap. Sometimes I wish the thing taught her a lesson! (kidding)
Putting costly and fragile electronic devices in your back pocket and bloody well sitting on them, and shifting your weight on them, is NOT the way to take care of your device.
Not Apple's fault.
Don't sit on your devices, folks. This should be obvious, but a good chunk of the under-30 population of today is practically brain-dead.
Not the iPhone itself caused the fire:
Update: The handset was in the student's back pocket and made a "popping" noise when she sat down, reports USA Today. Fire officials tell the paper that they believe sitting on the phone cause it to "short out."
I knew.... nice try again...
This is exactly what I speculated.
It's clearly a user error that caused this problem. No phone, tablet, GPS, or laptop can withstand such abuse.
Where in the article did it say it was "crushed"?
It doesn’t need to.
They didn't mention if the phone was in the butt pocket or a side pocket. So, if I suspect that she sat on the phone and caused a short, I would have no proof. I hope more info will come out so that we know what the cause was.
"The handset was in the student's back pocket and made a "popping" noise when she sat down"
"back pocket" would be what she sat down on it seems to me. It made a "popping" noise" when she damaged it by sitting on it, possibly not for the first time since she'd had the phone for a few months.
My sister-in-law has an iPhone 5 and treats it like a friggen hockey puck. Literally throws it onto tables, puts it on the floor where it can be stepped on, puts it on wet surfaces, and drops it constantly. She has broken at least 6 smartphones in the past 4 years and still treats them like crap. Sometimes I wish the thing taught her a lesson! (kidding)
Yeah, I've a buddy that does that, kills phones routinely and in the end it's a mercy since they're so beat up it's hard to look at them (it's amazing how they keep working with screens cracked all to hell....).
This is why you don't put your damn phone in the back pocket. Why would anyone think its okay to SIT on your phone? I hate when people do this.
People that actually pay for the phone themselves (on or off contract) don't do that generally.
I like the last two lines from the Portland Press Herald article:
The iPhone, which was green and is now black, is useless. So are the pants, which Milligan agreed to replace.
“We went to Target and got a pair of yoga pants,” she said.
She probably had jailbroken her iPhone then ran a program that went haywire, going full blast. The jailbroken iPhone couldn't turn itself off so it started burning.
Ahh, no worries, it was just a "burner" phone.
Great, now every al-Qaeda wanna be hijacker will be buying iPhone 5c's now