The iPhone in general is an excellent piece of hardware. However, reports are circulating that after heavy usage of the white iPhone 3G S, the smooth, rounded plastic backing may change from a beautiful pearl white to a burnt light-brown.
IPhone 3G S users are finding that this incident can be caused while using multiple connection sources such as GPS, 3G or Edge at the same time. In this case, this device user was using 3G and GPS. This discoloration and possible battery/ chip set engineering mistake may lead to a mass recall or refund, if more reports of brown-backed iPhones come in. No other solid reports have come in regarding other cases/phones or the black 3G S.
Apple has yet to comment on the situation, as this may only be an isolated incident.
UPDATE - Other reports of overheating 3G S' are coming in. Although not many reports of discoloration, comments on these sites below offer other accounts of such overheating probelms:
- JournalDuGeek - Original Article, translated.
- NoWhereElse - Similar to original Article
- Austrailian's Herald Sun - Similar Article quoting "More than 70 replies included similar claims plus one suggestion the new iPhone could be used as a cigar lighter."
- PC World - "Apple iPhone 3GS Overheating Reports"
- Apple's Discussion Forums: 1, 2, 3
Comments
So far I only see the one picture of this occurance. Is this the media overhyping a single defective iphone?
Over 1 million sold in the first weekend - and this is the first report I've seen.
People have to realize - no product is perfect. The fact that one breaks isn't proof of a design problem. If there are a significant percentage, then you can make a case of it.
How is someone using GPS, 3G, Edge at the same time? If so, that's a software fix, not a hardware problem.
Looks like a very isolated incident, yawn...
Granted you can make a phone call and use the GPS Google maps at the same time but I've never had a over heating problem to cause my phone to do that and I've had the white iPhone since they where first released with the 3G and I still haven't had this problem with my 3GS so I say ISOLATED INCIDENT!
just one picture what we see
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