[X4U] Dead while taking a call

[Charles Schneider]

That's true for all things plugged in


On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 10:41 AM, David Ledger <david.ledger at ivdcs.co.uk>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
>
>
>   On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 1:17 PM, Paul Moortgat <<mailto:paul.moortgat@**
>> pandora.be <paul.moortgat at pandora.be>>paul.moortgat@**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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