An Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPhone 7 Plus exploded after falling on the ground in China, according to a report from Chinese tech site Gizmochina via Digital Trends. The iPhone 7 Plus was bought about a month ago and was working perfectly. The report said that the device accidentally fell on the ground and started emitting smoke and continuous vibrations. The battery then exploded, as a result the screen was shattered and completely detached from the body.
Explosion
The report did not mention how the incident occurred and whether there was a fire afterward. But pictures of the phone circulating among Chinese media suggest that there was a small kind of small fire, which destroyed the phone. Its plastic internal components appear to have been melted, according to the report.
Digital Trends said in its reported that the iPhone explosion appears to be different from the Galaxy Note incidents. The Samsung devices, in most cases, “were exploding on their own, not as a result of a drop.” While in the iPhone case, it appears that the phone “may have taken a hard fall, which caused the battery to explode.”
Apple iPhone Explosions
Last month, two iPhone 7 explosions were reported. Those incidents have left some iPhone users across the world worried. However, as I have mentioned it earlier, reports suggested that there is no similarity between the explosions taking place with the Galaxy Note 7 and the iPhone 7 Plus. In the Samsung cases, explosions occurred when the phones were connected to a charger.
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) shipped the iPhone 7 Plus that exploded even before it could reach the owner. The buyer – a Reddit user with the name ‘kroopthesnoop’ – posted pictures of the broken back of the iPhone 7 Plus.
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In Australia, a surfer named Mat Jones claimed that a burning iPhone 7 caught fire and destroyed his car. Jones told the local media that he found his car filled with smoke after returning from catching some waves. “Inside the car he found a pair of pants on fire and underneath them his iPhone looking like it just came off of a barbecue grill,” according to reports.
Jones was certain that the iPhone was responsible for causing a fire. The device burned his pants and ruined his car. In response, Apple said that it was investigating the matter and was in contact with Jones.
People started comparing the iPhone explosions with Samsung last month, but a report from The Mac Observer suggest that it’s bit premature to call “Apple a Samsung copycat.”
The report added that Samsung Galaxy Note 7 sales “may have reached upwards of 5 million units, which makes the ratio of fires to phones much higher.” The publication noted that the failure rate for lithium batteries is about 1 in 10 million, where Samsung was dealing with a substantially higher ratio at about 1 in 50,000.
Analysts forecasted that Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) could sell as much as 15 million more iPhone this quarter and could record $8.9 billion more in revenue, thanks to Samsung’s misfortunes with the explosive Samsung Galaxy Note 7.
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