14 DAY TRIAL // An Apple customer in Thailand named Suwicha Auesomsaksakul had a rather unpleasant experience with his iPhone 5 yesterday, when the handset exploded during a phone call.
Suwicha reportedly threw the smartphone to the ground when he noticed it was getting hot and pumping out smoke. “The phone exploded four times like a firecracker,” he told Thai site Coconuts Bangkok.
Suwicha had bought the phone just two months prior to the incident. He now swears he will never buy an Apple product again.
Although such cases are isolated (and I mean very isolated), having one blow up to your ear is probably a bad enough experience to make you refrain from buying any handset from any vendor.
Problem is they all use Lithium-based batteries, which is the primary cause of these incidents 99.99 percent of the cases. The same thing sometimes happens to laptops and other electronics powered by Li-Ion polymer juice packs.