It looks like 2016 will be remembered as the year of incendiary devices. It has been in this year when Samsung has had a very serious problem in this sense with the Galaxy Note 7, a device that arrived with a flaw, probably design, that made the latest phablet of the Korean firm could catch fire at any time. Now this weekend, an Australian named Mat Jones assured a iPhone 7 on fire burned his car.
According to Jones, a surf teacher, the owner of the iPhone 7 burned down he left his device in his car under some clothes, probably to keep him out of sight and out of sight of any potential thief, while he went to teach a class. When he returned he saw that smoke was coming out and there were flames coming from the area where he had left his iPhone 7, a device that he had bought only a week ago.
Is this case of an iPhone 7 on fire to worry about?
Well, I think the answer is no. Although it is likely that Apple will give Jones an iPhone for what happened, everything seems to indicate that the iPhone had problems from being exposed to high temperatures, more specifically its battery. Although the ambient temperature is less than 40º, inside a car the temperature can increase to the point of melting some materials, something that I have seen in a guitar case / cover that was in the trunk of a parked car on the beach for a couple of hours (yes, the guitar was intact).
Apple has already been in contact with Jones to find out what happened, but this will almost certainly be a isolated case, very different from what motivated Samsung to recall its Galaxy Note 7. In any case, the surfer's experience is a clear example that the warnings that tell us how to store an electronic device are there for a reason, right?
