French iPhone Crème Brulée

Chauncey Dupree
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June 26, 2009
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According to French blog Nowhere Else, a white iPhone 3GS, while under a lot of CPU load, left faded brown streaks on the back plastic cover.  According to the site, the user said:

I did the test several apps warning radars in the car when I was a passenger, the apps using the GPS chip as well as 3G, after a while my iPhone was very hot but not burning hot.


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The user apparently called Apple customer service who wanted the iPhone to do some "analysis".

Via Engadget

Comments (12)

applegenius18 (not verified) | June 26, 2009 - 4:05pm

That's a heavy thinking iPhone!

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | June 26, 2009 - 4:25pm

How long does it have to over heat in order for it to turn blue? Pink is not my color.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | June 26, 2009 - 4:27pm

this story could be so true because we all know "manufacturing defects" always exist, but for some reason I'm not buying this story!

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | June 26, 2009 - 4:27pm

this story could be so true because we all know "manufacturing defects" always exist, but for some reason I'm not buying this story!

MILE (not verified) | June 26, 2009 - 4:28pm

This incident as well as the repeated reports about cracks in white iPhones make me worry if it was the right decision to get a white one this time…!?

Never had any problems with my previous black ones, so I'll just keep my fingers crossed…

Stagueve (not verified) | June 26, 2009 - 4:35pm

Hi,

please uploads images on your own website, i'll erase these ones (these that you are using here) in 1h because of my bandwidth.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | June 26, 2009 - 5:10pm

I see two possible things that happened, this doesn't look like a heat related problem. Here is what I see happened
1. iPhone had red liquid spilled on it, a can of Hawaiian Punch gave my macbook that color.
2. or he used it in a cheap case that rubbed color onto it.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | June 26, 2009 - 5:35pm

This was definitely not caused by heat. You can tell by the pattern. Come on guys, we've all seen the take apart's done by isuppli. The battery is in the middle of the phone. If there was a heat issue, it would radiate out from the center. It certainly wouldn't form rings that match the curvature of the product.

The only thing to blame here is either a case or his French clothes that rubbed their dye on the phone.

williamr | June 29, 2009 - 7:42am

Are there apps available that act as radar detectors? Or am I reading the translation from the French wrong?

grdh20 (not verified) | June 29, 2009 - 10:52am

or maybe from the cradle in a hot car. i get heat warnings sometime in a hot car after a few hours.

jh3887 (not verified) | June 29, 2009 - 4:40pm

I just love the fact that you apple fanatics can't admit that there might something wrong with your precious little Iphone. Thank god this thing doesn't have multi-tasking....brown would have to be the new standard color!

got 3g black 8gb + 3gs white 16gb (not verified) | June 29, 2009 - 6:49pm

had a case on mine looked like that . then took it to the store and got a new one ordered. then took the case off, marks not there . new iphone 3gs white for free.
your jealous