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iPhone 3GS Overheating: Recall, Anyone?

by Truemorist | June 29, 2009 at 09:08 am

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Is it hot in here, or is it just your iPhone 3GS? Looks like it's the iPhone... the iPhone 3GS seems prone to overheating, according to reports shooting through the intertubes. The cranked-up heat is also discoloring the cases, making the iPhone look it has suppository functionality as well as video capability. No word on a recall... yet.

If your iPhone 3GS seems prone to hot flashes, it's not alone. And neither are you. iPhone overheating: together we shall overcome.

Around the forums, people are blaming Push features and bad batteries, and all sorts of things. Apple doesn't seem to have responded to the complaints.

I'm starting to wonder if a recall is in the offing.

The iPhone has no moving parts, as in "no fan", so extended use will inevitably heat things up... but how extended is "extended"?

One user reported that he was recording video when the phone became very hot and died. Another--this is on the Apple Web site, in the forums--says there is a heat sensor inside that will record overheating and can be used to demand a replacement phone from the folks at the Genius Bar. We'll see about that.

Check out the iPhone forum, though prepare yourself for people who whinge while simultaneously accusing other whingers of whinging.

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Mark B (not verified)

at 06:28 on July 5th, 2009

It's all hogwash.... Mine is running cool and fine since it's release... it's just a couple of faulty ones, from a batch of 5 million... BIG DEAL.... GET OVER IT.... it's all MEDIA HYPE...

David B (not verified)

at 20:32 on July 6th, 2009

I have a 32gb and it just started heating up for no resion and it got HOT!! something is going on cus it should have terned off this thing was like a stove eliment and all I could do was tern it off to get it to stop!