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> When does an old iPhone become unsafe to use? When the Battery inside it becomes a spicy pillow shaped IED.
by dtx1 3y ago
> When does an old iPhone become unsafe to use?
When the Battery inside it becomes a spicy pillow shaped IED.
- easton 3y agoI feel like millions of dollars of R&D should mean it’s no longer Improvised ;)
- dtx1 3y agoArguably Galaxy Note 7 was a case of Accidentally Explosive Device with millions of dollars of R&D.
- bell-cot 3y agoQuite true...though "thermal runaway fire hazard" would be the correct descriptive. (Outside of old car batteries building up hydrogen gas, "explode" is a miserably over-hyped word for dangerous non-electrical battery failures.) OTOH - if (say) you're keeping an old phone for "emergency use only", then it's unsafe when the battery or electronics get too flaky to be relied upon for that.
- treespace8 3y agoIs there a time limit? I'm still using the original iPod touch as a white noise machine.
- flashback2199 3y agoSome cells never get puffy. Not sure why.
- olliej 3y agoI get that you're joking, but from the headline i assumed that they did mean physically unsafe - we all know lithium batteries have not 100% ideal failure modes, and I'm sure there are people on HN who remember the swelling laptop debacle of a few years (a decade?) back. Disappointed that the article is actually about security, and then makes a bunch of trivially falsifiable claims, but then also it says the best time to buy an iPhone is when they're brand new and just released to maximize update range. I'm really just not sure what the point of the article actually is? Yes a just released phone is going to be getting updates further in the future than one released a year ago, but that's true for literally everything iOS, android, hell, I can't get a replacement for the bowl in my rice cooker but I can for the next model.