News - Apple issues heat advisory amid claims of iPhone overheating

[Funkstar]

I'm normally an apple hater but its good to see they actually thought this might happen and rather than ignore the problem and fry the internals it actually warns you about it.

Or rather, instead of addressing the root cause of the overheating (i.e. designing the device correctly in the first place) they actualy expected this to be an issue, so felt it necesary to add the screen and impliment a reduced functionality mode.

Nice.

Can't say I've ever seen this on a phone before.

[watercooled]

The iPhone does have a pretty powerful CPU don't forget. But it is a bit daft to not cool it properly.

[Funkstar]

I wonder if the new Toshiba will have a cool down period

http://www.engadget.com/tag/tg01/

1ghz of Qualcomm goodness.

[Andeh13]

Thats down right lazy manufacturing in such poor tolerances, esp knowing its going to cause problems. Why not go back and fix it instead of just leaving customers to deal with?

[dangel]

Dammit guys, you just need to "think different"

It's obviously designed to be in the pockets of (very literally) cool people.

[watercooled]

Unless you're Mr Frosty, I doubt your pockets will be below 25C most of the time...

[johner]

Hi,

Both my wife and i got 3gs's day of launch, hers got very hot and the battery went flat in a hour without having to even use it!

She took it back and got a refund, mine has been fine so far, its so cool! fingers crossed it stay 'cool'..

[HSK]

I wonder if the new Toshiba will have a cool down period

http://www.engadget.com/tag/tg01/

1ghz of Qualcomm goodness.

I'd like to see how this one runs.

I just noticed today, Play.com have made a space for Toshiba in the Sim Free Mobile section, but nothing in there as of yet.

[CrazyMonkey]

I wonder if the new Toshiba will have a cool down period

http://www.engadget.com/tag/tg01/

1ghz of Qualcomm goodness.

No because it isnt an iphone.

[Lee H]

I think this is shocking news really.

How do all the users of these phones in hotter climates deal with this issue?

Are we going to see a flood of aftermarket cooling cases for the iphone.

When O2 said it's going to be this years hottest handset, they weren't kidding

[Brewster0101]

Another pile of rubbish from Apple. How can you make a phone that will stop working because it gets too hot. This is just typical of modern rubbish.

Software that isn't complete, but released.
Hardware that will crash because its poorly designed.

Honestly their must be some consumer law that prohibits this kind of stuff. If it doesn't work 100% on day of release and will continue to work 100% for the duration of its warrenty then it should either be 100% recalled or the company fined and all consumers have the right to a full refund within the warrenty if their product fails....

Imagine that, Microsoft and Apple would do bust...

[CK_1985]

Got to love the warning message:

"iPhone needs to cool down before you can use it"

iPhone is so awesome iPhone can refer to iPhone's self in the third person.

I have a standard 3G and, after a long afternoon of sitting in the sun in a pub garden the other day, I can safely say that it has been waaaay over 35c and still works fine. I never got this warning message either. Guess it's a bit of a lottery then as to whether you get a heat-a-phobic one or not. Or should that be thermophobic? Either way...

[mikerr]

The heat problem affects the new 3Gs model, not the older 3G model AIUI