Apple blames hot iPhones on the weather, others find oleophobic screen to be fleeting?
By Paul Miller 
posted July 4th 2009 10:10PM
posted July 4th 2009 10:10PM
Meanwhile, hapless Samsas Traum has found a problem of his own (pictured) that's sure to be blamed on some other act of god in the near future by Apple's spin team: the oleophobic coating is getting rubbed right off his screen. Apparently he has a bit of a fondness for a certain "Flick Fishing" app, which explains the highly localized nature of his oleophobic destruction. We haven't heard many other reports of a similar nature, but we'll keep an eye out for telltale Tap Tap Revenge markings on the iPhones of our rhythm-addled loved ones.
[Thanks, Rafa]
Read - Apple blames overheating iPhones on the weather
Read - Oleophobic coating wearing off fast
lmao really
Alert alert, anybody complaining about anything of apple will be smeared with apple hater label.
There isn't anything wrong with apple products, ever. Even if they catch fire and burn your house down it's your own fault or intended function like housing recykling program, pat pending by apple. :)
JUST WAIT A GODDAMN MINUTE. All you macHaters seem to be getting unnecessarily heated over this perfectly plausible explanation. Wouldn't happen to have been hanging out in a hot car, would you have?
In related news, Apple blames battery life limitations on the principle of Conservation of Charge.
As someone who used to own a white MacBook with a failed HDD, about ten cracks, brown palmrests, and whole bunch of other shit, I'm perfectly aware of the bullshit Apple will pull to deflect blame.
I have a unibody MacBook after finally convincing them to replace it, but it shouldn't be such a fight to get them to acknowledge obvious flaws.
It's a nonissue for us. Our comments are on the first page. We're content.
Ha. I love reading things like this, and then seeing people in line at the Apple store.
Apple should just call any customers that buy every new iPhone right when it comes out, "Beta testers".
@themonsteraria
It now appears that the 'S' is really for 'schadenfreude'.
so you get in line to buy the iPhone 3GS where S stands for speed, and then you get in line again to exchange it... sweet!
Or perhaps the 's' stands for 'sucka!'
Dude 1: "Is that the White Ring Of Death on your iPhone screen?"
iPhone Owner: "Yup, stupid weather gave it to me!"
I must, for once, give some kudos to Engadget for reporting a negative news about Apple.
@Newone
This is a brilliant security feature. The phone is too hot to steal.
@derX:
My phone and almost all my equipment is rated for USE in 120F (hot car in sunny day, other than in death valley or Las Vegas). I have personally baked (in your standard gas fired oven) an old phone before to dry it too. And you're saying blaming it on a hot car is acceptable? Hell, most cars never even get to the 113F max temperature that Apple states, and I doubt that these iPhones were left in conditions worse than the owner's previous iPhone went though.
That brings up another point: Why include max and min operating temps when no other company does? Just sounds like a way to get out of their limited warranty to me...
It's funny because for the first time I actually received a temperature warning on my iPhone (3.0) a few days ago.
Normally it's out in the open with the sun pounding on it in my car, never had any problems with it being too hot. Then again, it's been oddly humid this past month, so yeah, the weather is partly to blame.
all hail the reality distortion field
@ basroil,
Every single CE company I know lists the temp and humidity. It’s the ones that don’t that are suspect. Your assertion that Apple is the only one to do so is also suspect. What is your agenda with this FUD you are trying to spread? What do you gain from such lies?
Operating temperature range:
• 32°F to 113°F (0°C to 45°C)
• 5% to 90% RH (relative humidity)
Page 324 of the following PDF link: http://www.palm.com/us/support/handbooks/pre/p100eww/PalmPre_UG_Sprint_p100eww.pdf
@bender
They include it in the full manual, very few feature it front and center on their website. And check that out... palm's OPERATING max is 113F, iPhone's NON-OPERATING max temp is 113F, operating is only 95F. Obviously Apple knows their designs are prone to heating issues if the operating temp is that much lower than their close competitor.
@ basroil,
Your comment wasn’t about Apple putting it on their specs and info page or that it was lower than some other CE, it was that they did it at all. You can backpedal all you want but you can’t edit your post.
Basroil wrote, "Why include max and min operating temps when no other company does? Just sounds like a way to get out of their limited warranty to me…”
The fact is, this is standard procedure, perhaps even required by law, Apple doesn’t issue a large booklet User Guide like a lot of other CE companies still do so they have to put the info elsewhere. It’s almost always online these days but it has been a part of CE for a very long time now in way form or another.
Apple =FAILED
I got a white 3gs and it now looks pink. I will never buy another Apple product. Oh and At&t sucks, dropped calls galore.
The heat makes me act up too!
oops.. in addition
basroil... when you "baked" your phone in an oven.. was it turned on or off? There are different operating and shipping temps. I'll assume you had it off soooooo your point is moot.
Overheating - There's an app for that
I really wonder if they even test their phones properly. All Nokia models* go through series of torture test.
*Prototypes and likes.
i love how Apple fan boys always come to the defense of the all mighty Apple, no matter what. I thought the excuse Apple gave for the failed screens was hilarious.
lmao indeed
http://www.precentral.net/palm-pre-hardware-issues
STi:
Pics or it didn't happen.
Thought not.
why would you leave your phone running in a hot car? if it's in your car, how are you going to send and check your tweets to keep the world informed of your every action? how will you know when your friends change their facebook status? you'll become so disconnected!!
HAHAHAHA HA
Um, the overheating and discoloration are due to low quality third party cases. It was reported today in the New York Times and CNN...not that I trust them either.
Rob Kevnar,
While I’m sure that is true, it doesn’t mean it accounts for all discoloured White iPhone. Nor does it mean that there are not some iPhones with some batteries, other components or a bad OS install causing the system to overheat.
In the words of the immortal Nelson.... HA HA
PWND!
Attention all Mac Haters!
Make an app that deliberately heats up the phone until it bakes, then fill an class action lawsuit against apple. Now take that Apple!
i should have known better than to leave e-mail notification on a first comment
omg
am thinking to buy it today...
gosh apple............if your going to put a powerful processor make sure your hardware can handle it!!!
and it wont hurt if u grew some balls!!
Step One: Grow some balls.
Step Two: ???
Step Three: Profit.
Apple are reknowned for extremely poor thermal engineering in their devices.
Practically every other product they release has major problems.
It's funny since I'm pretty sure every single other cell phone in the world has gotten left in the car accidentally, as well as probably every mp3 player in the world, and every GPS device, and who knows what else.
And I have never, ever, heard of another portable device doing this because it was left in a car...did they think iPhone users would never ever leave their phone in the car?
Maybe it shouldn't be left at home or in the office either. Har har.
Step Four: Put your d*&^ in a box (...and send it to apple).
I thought Apple would have tested this stuff before shipment. Correct?
stop your teasing: we all know they test things on their loyal early adopters.
Usually it's major revisions and brand new products that early adopters have to suffer through. The 3GS strikes me as a modest incremental update more than anything else.
I love how some Apple fanatics attack the Pre for shoddy manufacturing yet after 3 models Apple still has issues with their phones.
Haha never that! Us early adopters basically pay out the butt to be beta testers! Lucky us huh! oh wait....
It depends by what you mean by "tested this stuff before shipment". If you mean, does Apple test the model prior to shipping then I am quite certain the answer is "yes". If you mean, does Apple test each individual unit before shipping then I expect the answer is "no". I have no idea what form of Quality Assurance is performed (if any) but I am certain that any testing performed on the individual units themselves is in no way as rigourous as the testing that would have gone on the initial products to ensure the model was suitable for shipping.
Apple needs to stop selling iPhones in Arizona then, because we've already had a few days where the ambient temp in the shade has been past 113, and we're not even to the hottest part of the year yet. At some point they need to realize that, like it or not, a lot of us live in places where the ambient outdoor temp often gets well above the max 'operating' and sometimes 'non-operating' temperatures. Believe me, there are plenty of other electronic devices I know of that do just fine, even left in my car (not in the sun, and with limo tint and a windshield shade) during the 120 degree summers here.
And don't even get me started on the 'dry heat' myth. I've seen the heat index here hit 160˚.
Wow.
Looks more like he's using a virtual booby program.
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