Several things can go south for the users of brand new phones including Apple‘s latest flagships; from a change of mind and wanting to return the expensive device, to series of different minor malfunction, various software woes and different accidental damages. But it’s so unusual for a three weeks old phone to spontaneously explode and almost causing body damage to the owner. That is the experience of an Ohio-based iPhone Xs Max owner who’s pone exploded.
Josh Hillard, based in Ohio reported how he escape the incident, safe and sound but traumatized. He stated that the Apple iPhone XS Max was kept in his back pocket when it began to release “a large amount of heat” including green and yellow smoke. He said he had to quickly leave the break room where his co-female workers were, to find a private place to take his shoes and clothes off. At this time, the explosion has transformed into a full-blown fire which fortunately was extinguished. Hillard said he was so unhappy “from the time of first noticing the fire and between removal of the pants and taking the phone out of my pocket and placing it outside.”
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Hillard was however offered a new phone as a remedy to the exploded one, which he doesn’t regard as a better way of resolving the situation. Considering the situation of things, Hillard is said to be “contemplating legal action” for all the trauma he has encountered as a result of the explosion. Apple has begun an intense investigation to determine the cause of the incident. This is the first time iPhone XS Max is reported to have exploded and we hope it’ll be the last. Something similar recently occurred to the iPhone X, though, but the cause may likely be unrelated.
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