[X4U] Dead while taking a call

[Paul Moortgat]

Two days ago I wrote this:
They found out how it happened.  They used an not approved (Chinese home made?) device to load their iPhone.
It's easy to point to Apple.  I used our iPhone yesterday while loading it.  But I use the right stuff.

Paul Moortgat


On 23 Jul 2013, at 16:41, David Ledger wrote:

>> At 13:23 -0400 15/7/13, Charles Schneider wrote:
>> I do it all the time.  Every phone manual says not to use the phone while it's charging....seems very difficult to believe.
> 
> 
> If the charger develops a mains-live to one side of the phone connector short fault, then any metallic parts of the phone will be live. The phone won't be designed to do 110v or 230v isolation, that's the charger's job - but if that fails Š
> 
> In lower grade kit even a mis-wiring of the mains socket could contribute to the likeliness of a shock.
> 
> David
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>> On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 1:17 PM, Paul Moortgat <<mailto:paul.moortgat at pandora.be>paul.moortgat at pandora.be> wrote:
>> 
>> A Chinese woman died while accepting a call while her iPhone was charging.
>> It's written in every manual from every type of phone of every brand NOT to do so.
>> She did.  And because it's an iPhone from Apple it's all over the news.
>> If it should have been from an other brand it wasn't even mentioned.
>> Some take pleasure to mention it's from Apple.  As if Apple is responsible.
>> 
>> Paul Moortgat
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