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Apple iPhone 3G S Overheating

Just when you thought the Apple iPhone 3G S couldn’t get any hotter, the popular smartphone has been plagued with overheating issues, and, in some cases, is getting so toasty that the device itself turns brown.

It appears the ill-fated Hottest Girls application isn’t the only thing making new iPhone users sweat.

Apple has yet to respond to the claims.

French site Le Journal du Geek featured a photo of what appears to be a scorched Apple iPhone 3G S, which the site says overheated and turned the white casing pink, or light brown from the heat.

Another French site, Nowhere Else also posted images of Apple iPhone 3G S devices discolored by overheating.

Domestic users are also feeling the heat. One of the forums on Apple’s Apple Discussion site indicates that a host of users’ iPhones are overheating. One user said a friend’s Apple iPhone 3G S “got extremely hot. He almost put it into the fridge.”

The early blame seems to fall on games and GPS, resource-intensive applications that are pumping up the battery until it gets too hot to handle and eventually overheats.

Even over on PC World, Melissa J. Perenson wrote that her Apple iPhone 3G S “became very hot. Very, very hot — not just on the back, but the entire length of the front face, too.” At the time, she was using a game and then the Web browser over a Wi-Fi connection with the device plugged in. “Toasty doesn’t even describe how surprisingly hot it got. It was too hot to even put the phone against my face.”

One commenter shared this tale: “I had my iPhone under my pillow playing music through the head phones for a nap; I awoke with a sharp pain on my left arm under the pillow. I had been burned decently from the iPhone getting so hot. The phone seems to function fine though.”

While another offered this advice to users of overheating iPhone 3G S smartphones: “Throw out your microwave — simply drop your iPhone on the plate instead.”

[Thanks: http://www.crn.com]

Apple Granted Patents for Smartbook & Find My iPhone Related Technologies

The US Patent and Trademark Office officially published a series of four newly granted patents for Apple Inc. The notables within that group include one relating to a hybrid antenna that Apple prominently yet quietly assigns to that of smartbook. The second patent of interest is extraordinarily detailed and covers the widest range of future products imaginable.

In fact this report will only cover one segment of the patent while the other information is presented in our supplementary report titled “Apple TV to Take Sporting Events to a Whole New Level.” This powerful patent was acquired by Apple as the key credit goes to an individual by the name of Curtis A. Vock of Boulder, CO. In fact, if truth be told, it would appear that Apple acquired this patent via the outcome of Civil Action Complaint 06-CV-02122 – PhatRat Technology LLC v. Apple Computer Inc. filed in Oct. 24, 2006.

The patents known to be associated with PhatRat were “Personal Items Network, and Associated Methods” and “Activity monitoring systems and methods” covered in our March report. The technology found within this current patent covers subject matters ranging from the Apple iPhone 3G-S feature called “Find My iPhone,” to that of a heart monitoring system, an advanced Industrial Transport tracking system, a baby monitoring alarm system and other unique applications that could very well be worked into future iterations of Apple’s iPhone. Curtis A. Vock is credited with over 45 successful patents including those from PhatRat.
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