In New South Wales, an accidental case came to light when a man got several critical burns due to the explode in his iPhone 6. It was his own iPhone 6 that he kept in his pocket while biking on the mountains. So, it is a shocking case for many iPhone 6 users; and is a matter of concern for the manufacturer – Apple also. So, what happened to iPhone 6 at that time; here we are going to uncover the story from the scratch.
The bike rider named Gareth Clear from Bondi – Australia was biking in New South Wales’ Manly Dam where he suddenly fell to his bike and landed over his phone – iPhone 6.
After few seconds to landing on the phone, Clear saw some burning heat and smoke on his phone and after that, it was exploded and started melting down from his shorts. This explosion badly affected his skin of right thigh to two layers. It was such a terrific burn that the man underwent an immediate graft surgery for skin.
In the statement, Clear quoted
"It was a one in one million chance I hit a part of the phone which pierced the lithium battery and it exploded”.
@tim_cook@AppleNewsAU@AppleNewsUK iPhone exploded in back pocket after bike fall. Skin graft surgery required pic.twitter.com/QG26cuLYXH
Gareth Clear (@gareth_clear) July 31, 2016
Moreover, Clear also mentioned in his statement that he witnessed the bending metal and how the lithium of iPhone 6 battery leaked out from its bottom end. He said that after the phone had got exploded, the phone base started looking like something is getting exploded due to a chemical explosion; however, the top end remains unaffected by the explosion.
As per Da-Wei-Wang, this is an unusual incident when a lithium battery of phone gets overheat to this level that it gets exploded. He said that it might happen at times when there is a combination of a bad design of the structure of a phone and overheating.
Though, Clear told that the iPhone 6 maker – Apple assured him to investigate in this matter; yet the spokesperson of Apple has not said anything on this matter.
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