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EU launches probe into 'exploding' iPhones and iPods
Bruno Waterfield in Brussels and Henry Samuel in Paris
Published: 7:00PM BST 18 Aug 2009
European Union consumer safety watchdogs have launched an investigation into reports that Apple iPods and iPhones are "exploding" in the summer sunshine.
Officials have acted after a series of cases in Britain, France, Holland and Sweden in which Apple's digital music players and mobile phones have allegedly spontaneously combusted or exploded.
In the latest incident, Romain Kolega, a French teenager, was injured when his girlfriend's iPhone was said to have exploded into shards after beginning to "crackle and pop like a deep-fryer".
That report followed a British case earlier this month involving an iPod Touch music player belonging to Ellie Stanborough, an 11-year old Liverpool girl.
More:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news...-and-iPods.html
Bruno Waterfield in Brussels and Henry Samuel in Paris
Published: 7:00PM BST 18 Aug 2009
European Union consumer safety watchdogs have launched an investigation into reports that Apple iPods and iPhones are "exploding" in the summer sunshine.
Officials have acted after a series of cases in Britain, France, Holland and Sweden in which Apple's digital music players and mobile phones have allegedly spontaneously combusted or exploded.
In the latest incident, Romain Kolega, a French teenager, was injured when his girlfriend's iPhone was said to have exploded into shards after beginning to "crackle and pop like a deep-fryer".
That report followed a British case earlier this month involving an iPod Touch music player belonging to Ellie Stanborough, an 11-year old Liverpool girl.
More:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news...-and-iPods.html
