iPhone 3GS Overheating?

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Seems like the new iPhone 3GS is literally hot. No device can be problem free, especially when it is in the scale of iPhone. Being the World’s most anticipated and technology packed phone has its own disadvantages. It is normal for any cell phone to get heated up through long usage; but iPhone 3GS has an unprecedented characteristic behavior for at least one of its users.

Lengthy activation times, Faulty tethering support and high pitched noises emitting from iPhone aside, the type of heating described by the user is near devastating for Apple’s prestigious product. The iPhone had its share of heating problems when it was first released. Some users reported that the phone developed cracks due to massive overheating.

But the new report indicates that iPhone 3GS has also inherited the problem, but at a much grander scale. The user seems to have bought a brand new iPhone 3GS about 6 days ago and he has been normally using it. In the users’s own words,

" I bought an iPhone 3GS Friday morning, I normally used and a few days ago, I did the test several apps warning radars in the car when I was a passenger, using the softwares GPS chip and 3G, after a while my iPhone was very hot but not burning hot.”

“Yesterday when it was placed on my desktop screen on it I noticed a mark intriguing back of my phone. It is reddish / pink and goes around the iPhone following a priori the shape of the battery …”

“Of course I called the customer service that Apple does not offer me nothing more than to deprive me of my mobile phone for 5 days for testing by their team of engineers. "

The iPhone in question as of now is with Apple Engineers undergoing an "analysis". The user has uploaded pictures of iPhone with pinkish streak marks about its back, tracing the battery inside the phone. A side by side picture of the iPhone in question and another with the back open will help the readers see for themselves