To the editor Onliner.by asked regular reader Sergey, faced danger in the face of the iPhone 4. According to the user, in the night from 15 to 16 February, the smartphone has self-ignited and almost started a fire in the apartment. Who knows what tragic consequences it could bring, if not a light sleeper wife of Sergey.

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To the editor Onliner.by asked regular reader Sergey, faced danger in the face of the iPhone 4. According to the user, in the night from 15 to 16 February, the smartphone has self-ignited and almost started a fire in the apartment. Who knows what tragic consequences it could bring, if not a light sleeper wife of Sergey.

"I Have a young family — wife and daughter (3 months). All together we were in the same room. The first fire in a dream said my wife, she woke me up. At this point, the fire phone has spread already lying next to a soft toy and was burning on the nightstand near my head. Immediately dropped the phone on the ground and started to extinguish a flame of the same toy, finally extinguished the fire with water. Thank God, nobody has suffered", — Sergei.

In the end, the iPhone 4 is completely burnt out, the scorch marks are on the floor and furniture. Sergei said that the phone was fully charged in the evening, but in the time of the fire was not connected to the mains. The interlocutor said that the phone him about four years ago brought from Russia. According to Sergei, the device is original, the battery in it has never changed, the charger had to be replaced, but as a substitute chose the original.

Shortly before the fire, the user noticed that the phone started to warm up a little more than usual. Also between the top cover and upper end there was a small gap — less than a millimeter.

We turned to the expert, familiar with the peculiarities of service iPhone. According to him, the battery could be blown up from wear. That is why it started to heat up and then swell. However, what caused the ignition, is difficult to answer, because such situations are extremely rare.

it is Not excluded that speech can go about counterfeit iPhone assembled from parts of unknown origin. However, to confirm or refute this assumption is no longer possible.