Overheating iPhone 6 reported in India
An Indian man claims his iPhone 6 overheated and exploded just two days after he purchased it.
The Times of India reports restaurant owner, Kishan Yadav, who lives in Gurgoan, India, said he was making a hands-free call when the handset started to overheat. He was driving when the phone started to emit sparks. Upon seeing this, Yadav claims he threw the phone out the window and it burst into flames upon impact.
He said the only thing that kept him from injury was being in hands-free mode.
“My face could have got burned as the phone exploded in a matter of seconds. When I threw the phone, the call was on and the battery was around 70%,” Yadav said.
This is not the first time someone has claimed that their Apple iPhone caught fire. In March 2015, a man from Long Island, N.Y., said he got third-degree burns when he bent over to pick up his keys and his iPhone 5C caught fire in his pocket.
“All I heard was a pop, and it started fizzling, and it just started to burn my leg,” Eric Johnson said of the incident. “It went to a pretty much instant burn, it didn’t even warm up; it just went straight to burn. And the only way I could get the phone away from me was to rip off my pants to get the phone out.”
Back in India, Yadav filed a police report on the incident and took the phone back to the shop where he bought it for $945. He was directed to the Apple service center where he claims the staff refused to register his complaint, instead telling him to drop the phone off with them and they would investigate.
An Apple representative said this is the first such incident in India and the company is looking into it.
