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iPhone catches fire while charging: Isolated incident or something to worry about?

Tim Colburne did what just about everyone does with their iPhone — plugged it into a computer to charge over a USB connection, except in this case there was an issue. It turns out that after about three hours the iPhone caught fire. According to the message that Tim posted on his blog; “The fire [...]

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iPhone 3G overheats, burns sleeping man’s leg

Perhaps one of the stranger complaints with the iPhone 3G so far, we have already seen numerous reports of cracks appearing, but this seems to be the first with a phone getting hot enough to actually burn someone’s leg. The user claims that he fell asleep for a few hours only to wake up in “extreme [...]

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