Una vodafone store in Canberra, Australia, had to be evacuated after a model of the new iPad Air of Apple caught fire and required the intervention of the local fire department, as reported by news.com.au. Another case of a problem fire of a device from the Cupertino company that will surely go around the world and it would be necessary to see if any other similar event with this model is repeated.
This is the story extracted from the Australian news agency:
"An explosion of flames" appeared in the charging port of an iPad demo model, confirmed a spokesperson for the Vodafone store. The fire department was called in after the store filled with smoke and the continuous sparks that appeared from the charging port of the iPad.
The accident was very spectacular but no one was injured. Throughout these years there have been several similar incidents with iPhone or iPad devices, but all of them were related to using loader copies or some unofficial Apple ones. The company has already launched an exchange program for these chargers. But in this event something changes, it is rare for an official Vodafone store to use a charger that is not original or from another brand other than Apple, and these device demonstration stands are usually provided by the company, therefore it's a strange case worth studying. Due to this it has also been reported by the Vodafone store that Apple sent a representative to the place to collect the iPad for further investigation.
Apple should investigate in detail what may have been the cause of this incident, if it is decided by a excessive heating lightning power port or other hardware problem associated with a defect of this device and if this problem could affect the rest of iPad Air that are already in the hands of their new buyers. It is a serious issue, which better be an isolated case, because if it could not make many people resist buying this device as a precaution. If any of our readers has an iPad Air could comment if this model gets excessively hot when charging.
More information - The charger exchange program will be extended to other countries
It happens to me with the iphone 5
When it happens to you and it catches fire, I suppose it repairs itself and burns again, right? 😉
To my tb, I have several! When it burns I take another out of the drawer.
Jokes aside ... I don't believe this news anymore, it's like the video of the shredder, ALWAYS that a new Apple product comes out, it catches fire ....
iFire xD
iFAKE xD
iStupid xD
I already know that you are stupid man, you don't even need to say it aaaaaaaaaajhajhjaa clown
I have the iPad air and it is wonderful!
It does not get hot for me, on the other hand it is true that the iPhone 5 does get very hot
Regards!
What I have realized that they always say, an iPhone caught fire and now an iPad is on fire, who in logic can believe that an iPad can fill a room with smoke only that is a 2 x 2 office
Sure, because the operating system causes it to catch fire.
If they do not know what caused the fire, I doubt that you know, perhaps an excessive load on the part of the system to the processor, caused the high temperatures ...
That is not the case, it has always been a hardware / assembly defect, the proof is that if it were the software all iPads would eventually explode ...
I do not know if they catch fire, what I do know is that I bought an iPad Air that is supposed to have 128 Gb and instead has 114. Can you explain to me, that you are so great and you know everything about Apple; Why does Apple cheat its customers? You should look at these things, which are really important and not a one-off event without any significance. I invite you to look at this, I do not find it reasonable that I spend almost € 900 on a team that claims to have some characteristics and then has very different ones. Pass, that in position of 128 it had about 120, that with what, they take away 8 for software, etc, it is accepted but: …… 114 !!!!!, where are the 14 GB that are missing ?? it is almost the capacity of a telephone !! THIS IS A ROBBERY!!!. I am raising, put a claim in consumption.
Because the operating system and factory applications take up space, not just apple with any device
If you buy a 500 GB hard drive, it will not mark 500 GB free even without formatting, it will tell you that it is of less capacity, everything is because… ..
1024 mb is a REAL GB and not 1000 which is rounding to 1GB
apart take away what the partition table occupies minus the software and others will give you a total of 114 GB of use but that is universal an 8 GB USB
it does not mark 8 GB FREE marks 7.5 and a dvd the same… and a CD… THE SAME AND UP TO A DISKETTE only that it is not noticeable because they are small sizes….
Hello, what you say I understand and it makes sense, but as you say, an 8-gigabyte USB has 7.5 something very normal and acceptable. What is not acceptable is going from 128 to 114 GB right out of the box with the default software. No operating system occupies such a space and less iOS 7 (apps by default). They don't have the capacity to sell you, that's all. We all have external disks, cds, etc, and we know that they have something less than what they mark us, but not these differences, I personally think that it is an abuse.
Exactly! And more for the price. I agree with you, in fact the same happened with the Galaxy S4, many users annoyed by the same problem, the providers said 16 GB, when in reality they had 9GB free. This is really annoying, personally I would like companies to be really clear when it comes to selling you a product. Because it is your money and you have to know what you are going to take home.
This is how it happened with the surface too, which was removed like 16 gbs
I think they are a bit wrong in theory .. it is not that they round the amount of MB to say that it has certain GB, nor that the system is occupying more than 10 GB .. What happens is that for the measurement of this they occupy binary system .
And now they will say that it is from the jailbreak?
or that it is necessary to take it of another way?
or do you have to put a cover on it?
Or that the one in the store has put a charger from the Chinese?
so that you explode that in your face do not see what plan hahahahaha!
Maybe that happened through its 64-bit processor and its 1GB Ram when it wanted to run Angry birds, it was too much and it went smoke XD
(It is the only App with more graphics than the appstore has)
Go people you meet ... if you want to comment on the subject first make sure you have knowledge about computer systems that not everything revolves around a game: ')
Wow, how wise you are!
Take a look at a real racing 3, a shadowgun or many more, before saying that angry birds is the game with "more graphics" in the AppStore 😉
And as Lolo says, not everything revolves around games
Resetting it by clicking the Home-Sleep button will not pull again 🙂
My iPad Air heats up on the right side with just 4 hours of continuous use, that's normal !!!