iPhone 4 combusts on Australian flight

[)roi(];8193867 said:
VM's (not for the note, but rather on a single high spec laptop?)
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That works only to a certain point, if you a developer like you say you are, you should just as much as I do that some VM's is worse than trying to cut your wrist with a spoon.

Honeycomb, I am looking at you.
 
Elimentals said:
That works only to a certain point, if you a developer like you say you are, you should just as much as I do that some VM's is worse than trying to cut your wrist with a spoon.

Honeycomb, I am looking at you.
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Actually a management consultant in the Petrochemical world, but we do lean heavily on coding for the custom integration bits.

Actually my VM's work pretty well, also travel quite a bit: Europe (France, Holland, Germany), UK and US though, nothing thankfully down under :p

Have many business apps that are sadly currently Windows only :( (working on it though :p)

On my journeys I seem to get away adequately with phone, 1xiPad and 1xMBP (16Gb ram, 250Gb SSD and 1TB HDD instead of DVD); on the rarer occasion I also need to drag the Tab with :whistle:
 
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At the time, it wasn’t clear what had caused the problem. The iPhone is hardly a perfect device and certainly has its fair share of flaws and glitches, but you can usually trust them not to spontaneously combust in your pocket. Well, ZDNet is reporting that the cause of the malfunction has been revealed. After the incident, the phone was sent to the Australian Transport Safety Bureau for examination. It seems that not long before the incident, the phone’s owner had gotten the iPhone’s screen replaced by an unauthorized third-party. When the replacement was done, a screw from the bottom of the phone, near the dock connector, was not sufficiently tightened. That screw managed to work its way all the way up to the top of the phone and punch through the casing surrounding the battery.

As you might expect, poking something metal through the housing of a battery is not a good thing. In this case it caused a short circuit that in turn cause the phone’s battery to drastically overheat, producing the red glow and the smoke. In the photo you can see an x-ray image of battery compartment and the offending screw.
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http://www.webpronews.com/cause-for-australian-iphone-explosion-revealed-2012-05
 
OI you should know its not fair to come here with logic and accurate information re defects on products.

It spoils the whole poke fun at them bit :)
 
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