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Reports are coming out that at least 6 iPhone 8 Plus batteries grew too big for their britches.
There have been at least six separate reports of iPhone 8 Plus batteries swelling to the point of splitting open their enclosures since the phones first went on sale on Sept. 22.
Stories at MacRumors, The Next Web and 9to5mac as early as last week cited social media postings showing what appeared to be separate incidents in Japan and Taiwan where the phones had split apart because of expanding batteries.
More recently, The Guardian has reported on additional incidents in Greece, Canada and China. Taken together, it adds up to at least six cases exhibiting nearly identical symptoms.
An Apple spokesperson said the company was aware of the reports, and looking into them.
Doesn't seem like it's as bad as Samsung's issues with Note 7 batteries - but the iPhone 8 is still relatively new, so I wouldn't go selling your AAPL stock right away.
Source: https://www.cnet.com/news/iphone-8-plus-battery-swelling/
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 13 2017, @09:43AM (4 children)
This is why no one likes Apple fanboys.
Why can't you admit Apple has fucked up? Did you see Note 7 owners deny it had issues? No, they just wanted a fixed phone or a refund. Because they're normal people.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 13 2017, @11:36AM
Quit being sexist. That could have been a comment from a fangirl. Use the PC fanbeing, so you don't offend anyone or anything.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by ilsa on Friday October 13 2017, @04:46PM (1 child)
Because there are fundamental differences. Having a battery fail safely (ie: swell) is a MASSIVE difference from exploding. The Note 7 had almost 100 cases of *explosions*, which caused burns and property damage. There is no mention of battery swelling. Samsung sold about 2.5m Note 7s total. Compare that to 10 millions iphones Apple sold just in september. That means the % failure to devices sold is significantly worse for the Note 7 than the iPhone 8.
I'm not saying that there isn't a problem, but the rhetoric needs to be toned down a LOT, because at this point in time, the situation with Apple is not even close to the scale of problems Samsung hand, and also because there hasn't even been a full investigation done yet.
(Score: 2) by ilsa on Friday October 13 2017, @04:50PM
Correction, I misread the Forbes article I found. It is estimated that only 5.5 million iphone 8's have been sold in September. But my point still stands.
(Score: 2) by quacking duck on Friday October 13 2017, @07:43PM
Yes, plenty of Note 7 owners denied it had issues at first. Several months after the recall 4 percent of Note 7 owners still refused to return them [cnbc.com].