Yes, and you know that the one they tested is the one that was in use when the failure occurred because?
Granted, I think it's entirely possible that the phone failed. But that doesn't mean that the lady is being entirely truthful - especially since she was so eager to upgrade to the iPhone 4S.
I think everyone is reading to much into her going public about the failure. A lithium battery failure is pretty impressive. She thought users should be aware of it. There is nothing wrong with that. I do believe that given the low probablity of failures battery warnings are likely a waste of time and effort though.
As for her request for a 4s. I probably would have asked for one too. If you don't ask you don't get. IIRC someone posted about taking in a broken 4 and just having to pay an upgrade cost to get a 4s.
User replaceable batteries would allow a person to remove the battery if it seemed to be causing a problem thus saving the phone.
But since Apple gave her a new phone, that's better than replacing the battery. Once again, user replaceable batteries involve a lot of compromises that Apple wasn't willing to make.
Besides, how would user replaceable batteries have prevented this problem? She didn't know she had a problem until it caught fire.
[QUOTE=AppleInsider;2078418]In what appears to be the first reported case of its kind on U.S. shores, a Colorado woman alleges that her iPhone 4 caught fire while charging overnight and wants Apple to warn customers of the device's possible combustion issues.
The woman, who spoke under the condition of anonymity, said she took her story to tech website Mashable in order to spread public awareness over the reported issue, claiming that Apple has been reticent to acknowledge the alleged incident.
The unnamed source claims that she awoke in the early morning during a recent trip to the east coast to find her year-old white iPhone 4 making "sizzling" and "popping" noises. After an unspecified amount of time there was ?not quite an explosion, but an immense crackling,? and smoke plumed from the device creating "an awful, putrid smell, almost like you were ingesting plastic of some kind.?
CALL ME A CYNIC, BUT I SMELL SOMETHING FISHY HERE!
I'm calling bullsh*t. She's the only one ever to have this problem and then she wanted to be upgraded to a 4S.
Ya that seems kinda weird to me, and she ONLY got the phone replaced. Come on anyone else would have been ecstatic to have a new phone and a cool story to tell.
my iphone did the same thing. well, kind of. it was charging and it made some popping noise and then one corner got pushed put partially seperating the device
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Yes, and you know that the one they tested is the one that was in use when the failure occurred because?
Granted, I think it's entirely possible that the phone failed. But that doesn't mean that the lady is being entirely truthful - especially since she was so eager to upgrade to the iPhone 4S.
I think everyone is reading to much into her going public about the failure. A lithium battery failure is pretty impressive. She thought users should be aware of it. There is nothing wrong with that. I do believe that given the low probablity of failures battery warnings are likely a waste of time and effort though.
As for her request for a 4s. I probably would have asked for one too. If you don't ask you don't get. IIRC someone posted about taking in a broken 4 and just having to pay an upgrade cost to get a 4s.
...the device creating "an awful, putrid smell, almost like you were ingesting plastic of some kind.”...
What the hell was she doing eating the thing anyway?
User replaceable batteries would allow a person to remove the battery if it seemed to be causing a problem thus saving the phone.
But since Apple gave her a new phone, that's better than replacing the battery. Once again, user replaceable batteries involve a lot of compromises that Apple wasn't willing to make.
Besides, how would user replaceable batteries have prevented this problem? She didn't know she had a problem until it caught fire.
The woman, who spoke under the condition of anonymity, said she took her story to tech website Mashable in order to spread public awareness over the reported issue, claiming that Apple has been reticent to acknowledge the alleged incident.
The unnamed source claims that she awoke in the early morning during a recent trip to the east coast to find her year-old white iPhone 4 making "sizzling" and "popping" noises. After an unspecified amount of time there was ?not quite an explosion, but an immense crackling,? and smoke plumed from the device creating "an awful, putrid smell, almost like you were ingesting plastic of some kind.?
CALL ME A CYNIC, BUT I SMELL SOMETHING FISHY HERE!
I'm calling bullsh*t. She's the only one ever to have this problem and then she wanted to be upgraded to a 4S.
Ya that seems kinda weird to me, and she ONLY got the phone replaced. Come on anyone else would have been ecstatic to have a new phone and a cool story to tell.
my iphone did the same thing. well, kind of. it was charging and it made some popping noise and then one corner got pushed put partially seperating the device