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Chinese woman dies of electric shock - iPhone 5 - Buck - 07-16-2013
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/apple-investigating-after-chinese-woman-dies-of-electric-shock-using-iphone-5-8709864.html
Re: Chinese woman dies of electric shock - iPhone 5 - cbelt3 - 07-16-2013
Completely believable if she had the charger attached to an extension cord and dipped the cord into the tub. Otherwise ... 5VDC, 500ma ? It *might* kill you if it was attached to electrodes internally ON your heart. Otherwise, nope.
But hey... it says "Apple" so harvest da clicks !
Re: Chinese woman dies of electric shock - iPhone 5 - davester - 07-16-2013
I'd say this is highly questionable. What's the charger capacity on an iPhone, 5v at about 1 amp?
Re: Chinese woman dies of electric shock - iPhone 5 - SteveG - 07-16-2013
With 365 million iPhones sold since 2007, this one iPhone incident is truly a reason to panic...if it is true.
Re: Chinese woman dies of electric shock - iPhone 5 - norse - 07-16-2013
A Chinese knock-off?
Re: Chinese woman dies of electric shock - iPhone 5 - GGD - 07-16-2013
norse wrote:
A Chinese knock-off?
My first thought too, I wonder if the charger and Lightning cable are the original Apple products.
Re: Chinese woman dies of electric shock - iPhone 5 - davester - 07-16-2013
GGD wrote:
[quote=norse]
A Chinese knock-off?
My first thought too, I wonder if the charger and Lightning cable are the original Apple products.
Perhaps she was using a lightning rod instead of a lightning cable.
Re: Chinese woman dies of electric shock - iPhone 5 - Filliam H. Muffman - 07-16-2013
Home/apartment not built to code and knockoff charger. Charger plugged into non-GFIC, 120 V on iPhone case ground. She touches computer plugged into similar circuit, but on opposite phase on other side of room. 240 V across the hands can easily kill. Her family should look at the building contactor and city inspectors instead of Apple.
Re: Chinese woman dies of electric shock - iPhone 5 - OWC Larry - 07-16-2013
Apple smear job
Re: Chinese woman dies of electric shock - iPhone 5 - N-OS X-tasy! - 07-16-2013
davester wrote:
Perhaps she was using a lightning rod instead of a lightning cable.
An easy mistake to make!
