14 DAY TRIAL // Apple fans making fun of Samsung’s exploding phones better think twice before doing it again because another iPhone 7 just went boom and evidence seems to indicate it was because of the battery.
The whole thing happened in China where iPhone owner Yin, from Suqian City in East China's Jiangsu Province, left her device charging on the bedside table and went out for a walk.
Even though leaving phones unattended no longer seems to be a good idea given the risks posed by overheating lithium-ion batteries lately, the woman only stepped outside her home when she heard what she describes as “a loud bang.”
“My phone ran out of battery, so I left it to charge on my bedside table. I went out for a walk and heard the explosion when I came home. Then I realised it was my phone,” she was quoted as saying by the Mail.
Second iPhone bursting into flames in two months
Fortunately, nobody was injured in this incident, and although the charger and the cable are suspected to be at fault for the explosion, there’s only a small chance this is the case. As you can see in the photos below, the explosion left a huge mark on the display, which indicates that the fire started from the battery, with overheating most probably the cause.
Overheating batteries were also at fault for the series of explosions impacting the Samsung Galaxy Note 7, but incidents affecting Apple devices have until now been scarce and there was no confirmation of a widespread problem with iPhones.
The iPhone that went boom has already been sent to the Apple store for investigation and additional information will probably never emerge, as Apple likes to do things quietly and we’re pretty sure all the other details will be kept secret.
On the other hand, as the Daily Mail indicates, this is the second incident involving an iPhone in the last couple of months, as another Apple customer posted a video of an iPhone catching fire and emitting smoke from the battery compartment. In that case, however, the phone wasn’t charging, but actually experienced issues turning on.
