Yassine Bouhadi, a 26-year-old supermarket watchman from the southeastern town of Villevieille, said he “was typing a text message, on Monday at around 3pm, when the screen exploded.”<\/p>\n
Bouhadi, who says he was hit in the eye with a glass shard, said he was “very angry” and planned to consult a doctor and file suit for damages.<\/p>\n
“I want an explanation about this damned telephone,” said Bouhadi, who bought the hugely-popular smartphone device for €600 ($850) three months ago and now wants his money back.<\/p>\n
A French teenager suffered an eye injury in a similar iPhone incident earlier this month, a few weeks after a brouhaha in Britain over an exploding iPod music player owned by an 11-year-old girl.<\/p>\n
A US television station also reported last month that an “alarming number” of iPods had burst into flames, although without causing serious injuries, a problem apparently caused by overheated lithium ion batteries.<\/p>\n
The US technology giant Apple, which makes the iPhone and iPod, assured the European Union earlier this month that the cases reported so far were “isolated incidents.”<\/p>\n