A second person has been shocked by an iPhone in China. Apparently this person was using an iPhone 4 and was shocked into a coma ten days ago. The thing that caught my interest is in this ZDNet article:
Wu Jiantong, 30, apparently had yelled “I’m getting shocked” when he was connecting his iPhone 4 to a charger, which was later found to be a counterfeit or third-party product. His sister related the incident, adding that she went to his rescue by pulling the charger out of the socket.
He was using a “counterfeit or third-party” charger with his iPhone 4. That’s significant because new facts have emerged about the other case that ended up being a fatality that I wrote about previously:
A Chinese television broadcast has demonstrated the possibility faulty chargers could have caused the death of a Chinese air stewardess electrocuted when she answered phonecalls on a charging iPhone spread.
A report by national broadcaster CCTV suggested the charger in the stewardess electrocution case might not be a genuine Apple product, and the phone was not an iPhone 5 but an iPhone 4.
Hmmm….. iPhone 4, non-Apple charger? Sounds like something worth investigating to me. It’s also a strong hint to perhaps use genuine Apple accessories or stuff that’s part of Apple’s MFi Program. If this goes in the direction that I think it will, clearly using knockoff products is not a good idea.
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Another Person Shocked By iPhone In China…. But New Facts Emerge
A second person has been shocked by an iPhone in China. Apparently this person was using an iPhone 4 and was shocked into a coma ten days ago. The thing that caught my interest is in this ZDNet article:
Wu Jiantong, 30, apparently had yelled “I’m getting shocked” when he was connecting his iPhone 4 to a charger, which was later found to be a counterfeit or third-party product. His sister related the incident, adding that she went to his rescue by pulling the charger out of the socket.
He was using a “counterfeit or third-party” charger with his iPhone 4. That’s significant because new facts have emerged about the other case that ended up being a fatality that I wrote about previously:
A Chinese television broadcast has demonstrated the possibility faulty chargers could have caused the death of a Chinese air stewardess electrocuted when she answered phonecalls on a charging iPhone spread.
A report by national broadcaster CCTV suggested the charger in the stewardess electrocution case might not be a genuine Apple product, and the phone was not an iPhone 5 but an iPhone 4.
Hmmm….. iPhone 4, non-Apple charger? Sounds like something worth investigating to me. It’s also a strong hint to perhaps use genuine Apple accessories or stuff that’s part of Apple’s MFi Program. If this goes in the direction that I think it will, clearly using knockoff products is not a good idea.
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