Comments on: iPhone 3G Proves to be a Hot Commodity… Not in a Good Way

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:36:23 +0000

I have had mine for 2 days now and have noticed it gets pretty warm but not hot. Will post back in a few days

By: ggore

ggore — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:27:12 +0000

Now that 16 people have “commented”, and not one of those 16 being USERS of the iPhone 3GS (i.e. NO credibility or experience in the discussion), I will throw in my 2 cents. I have a 3GS (white), and have not experienced this phenomenon. And I have used the phone while plugged in and charging. Warmth, yes, but not hot by any stretch of the imagination.

I would expect that if one were playing a game which uses a lot of graphics, or surfing the web over WiFi which uses a lot of battery power, all while the unit is being charged, that it would get warm, or even “hot” to some people. Not to say this phenomenon isn’t happening, just reporting MY experience.

By: Named

Named — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 03:09:01 +0000

13,

Ah. I remember the supreme quality of the Apple ///. If lifting a desktop a few inches of the desk and dropping it is NOT a viable solution, I don’t know what is.

By: trirnoth

trirnoth — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:43:32 +0000

> It was too hot to even put the phone against my face.
Interesting, that’s how I test my stove, coffee, bath water…

By: zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:32:26 +0000

Good RC electronics are usually made in Taiwan.

By: jescott418

jescott418 — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:27:19 +0000

I think Apple user’s need to start realizing that Apple does not make perfect products. In fact many of their product face the same problems that every other China made electronics face. Poor quality control. Apple was only good when it still made its products in the US. Now of course everything is made in the Asian countries. Same as Dell, and the rest. Why we continually think Apple is going to be imune from this is just wrong.

By: Butter You Up

Butter You Up — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:43:56 +0000

“Toast. There’s an app for that!”

“Apple is toast.”

By: JimR

JimR — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:56:06 +0000

Jobs told his replacement that he wanted a new, really hot phone.

By: Olo Baggins of Bywater

Olo Baggins of Bywater — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:22:26 +0000

The US military asked for this feature to they could be used to warm up MREs.

By: Now for Something Completely Different

Now for Something Completely Different — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:08:40 +0000

It’s the new iLight feature. When you’re out camping you can lean your iPhone against a pile of leaves and start a fire. GREAT!

By: Angel H. Wong

Angel H. Wong — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:57:13 +0000

That’s not a glitch, it’s a feature.

By: Usagi

Usagi — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:55:41 +0000

This really burns me up…

By: Randomized

Randomized — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:45:14 +0000

But will it blend?

By: Named

Named — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:45:10 +0000

Have you ever heard about paying more for Apple because of the “quality”?

Thats why… something about glass houses, climbing trees too high etc…

By: Wretched Gnu

Wretched Gnu — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:43:52 +0000

No surprise. Some of the ipods had the same problem (mine included)…

… and Apple’s hardware just sucks, sucks, sucks.

My wife is on her 3rd Macbook, which is physically disintegrating just after a year of purchase, as did her other Macbooks (DVD drive stopped working; incessant buzzing from the power connector; the casing is cracked and broken in 3 different places, etc… and the whole machine now runs as slow as OJ’s getaway car.

The HP I’m using right now, by contrast, is 4 years old and still superior to her newest Macbook in every way.