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After cut-copy-past the iPhone seems to have a new cool feature that Apple should IMO run TV ads about, “explode in your face”. This time it happened last…

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After cut-copy-past the iPhone seems to have a new cool feature that Apple should IMO run TV ads about, “explode in your face”. This time it happened last Friday in France. the young teen was using his girlfriend’s iPhone 3G when it suddenly started to get hot and the glass shattered. The boy claims to have received a piece of glass in the eye. Apple who was contacted by the newspaper claims that they never heard of any iPhone taking fire or exploding before. Yeah sure.

Source: La Provence

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