Exploding iphones & ipods

Marty_J

sillygoose wrote: »

You pays your money... you get a better class of molten lithium pocket lining with an Apple.

I'm not aware Apple have ever claimed to have invented a special type of Lithium Ion battery that does not have any of the problems associated with Lithium Ion batteries.

sillygoose

Marty_J wrote: »

I'm not aware Apple have ever claimed to have invented a special type of Lithium Ion battery that does not have any of the problems associated with Lithium Ion batteries.

How do I know you haven't been paid not to disclose that?

You have many times told us how vastly superior Apple engineering and design is to anything else.. surely for such a princely sum I should expect a better designed battery? I don't want to find I have a lowly ordinary Lithium like a (spit) Nokia or (double spit) HTC... I want something that explodes in a superior way.. I paid for it!

Marty_J

sillygoose wrote: »

You have many times told us how vastly superior Apple engineering and design is to anything else.. surely for such a princely sum I should expect a better designed battery? I don't want to find I have a lowly ordinary Lithium like a (spit) Nokia or (double spit) HTC... I want something that explodes in a superior way.. I paid for it!

I think you're being pretty unreasonable. Battery technology is what it is.

The only major engineering decision Apple made with regard to the battery is to make it non user-replaceable, thus enabling them to make the iPhone thinner and lighter than it otherwise would have been.

cyberbob

sillygoose wrote: »

How do I know you haven't been paid not to disclose that?

You have many times told us how vastly superior Apple engineering and design is to anything else.. surely for such a princely sum I should expect a better designed battery? I don't want to find I have a lowly ordinary Lithium like a (spit) Nokia or (double spit) HTC... I want something that explodes in a superior way.. I paid for it!

I find threads like this pretty stupid and petty. You have a bee in your bonnet against apple. Thats your perogative. Apple doesnt really need your custom anyway. So as far as I understand it you have started this thread as an excuse so you can have another anti-apple rant. You obviously have a little too much time on your hands. By the way apple don't make batteries

Most normal people use which ever technology is good for them. I use a mixture of a lot of them as do others. How you expect anyone to take your anti apple rants seriously I dont understand . By starting threads like this with your obvious agenda it just cheapens any of your arguments whereever they appear

kwikbreaks

The thing that concerns me isn't the battery problem which is nothing new it is the failure to recall possibly dangerous units in the way other manufacturers have.

As an aside suggesting the non user replaceable battery is to reduce the thickness of the iphone is pretty ludicrous and I suspect a different motive - most Apple kit is difficult to get into - my own Mac mini certainly isn't easily user upgradable. My son has an iPhone - it is indeed shiny but surely nobody could consider it to be slim - especially when encased in a silicone case.

M4RKM

kwikbreaks wrote: »

My son has an iPhone - it is indeed shiny but surely nobody could consider it to be slim - especially when encased in a silicone case.

my iPhone is very thin... i have a case on it to protect it from getting scratched.... this added only 1mm to the thickness, so there are options

cases can be bulky, but any case on any phone is the same...

butterbeanmash

Marty_J wrote: »

The only major engineering decision Apple made with regard to the battery is to make it non user-replaceable, thus enabling them to make the iPhone thinner and lighter than it otherwise would have been.

And of limited life to keep the money rolling in. I wouldn't buy a disposable 'phone myself...:D

Leopard

butterbeanmash wrote: »

And of limited life to keep the money rolling in. I wouldn't buy a disposable 'phone myself...:D

I wouldn't buy any mobile 'phone into which you cannot swap a spare, fully-charged battery when it runs out of juice.

Strider590

cyberbob wrote: »

Sony have had laptops with similar problems as have Dell (though they blame sony).

Because they were using Sony batteries from the same production date

cyberbob

Strider590 wrote: »

Because they were using Sony batteries from the same production date

Thanks :D