The Google Nexus 7 has a meltdown

7. Nadr1212 (Posts: 741; Member since: 22 Sep 2012)

This was kind totally worth reading

34. deuel_18 (Posts: 54; Member since: 25 Sep 2012)

i saw an amazon kindle fire being baked in an over and came out still fine...hhhhhmmmmmmmmmm any connection?

35. Mxyzptlk (unregistered)

I see people below are denying this happened. Had this been an iPad people would have been crying firegate or something.

38. nbringer (Posts: 180; Member since: 11 Sep 2012)

Mine is charging atm... all is good with the world.

36. Mxyzptlk (unregistered)

Maybe it actually did overheat. Electronics can and have done it before.

9. wendygarett (unregistered)

Agree... Tegra 3 device is hot...
But it's hard to me to believe that this can be exploded into this situation... Probably is the consumer's fault IDK...

31. nnaatthhaannx2 (Posts: 820; Member since: 19 Oct 2011)

Yep, my friend's iPhone 3GS caught on fire while charging... nothing new.

16. darkskoliro (Posts: 1090; Member since: 07 May 2012)

theres always a possibility that a device could do things such as this. not going to rule out BS though, who knows.

33. Hemlocke (unregistered)

It may be BS, but your battery doesn't stop charging when it reaches full. It keeps taking current for as long as it is plugged in.

41. chronopc (Posts: 97; Member since: 18 Oct 2012)

That's not true. It stops taking a charge once it's full. However if it drops below 97% then it'll continue to take a charge.

10. wendygarett (unregistered)

I don't mind the different tone of comment, it's their rights to speak after all :)

It's also the consumer rights to know this too so that we can be more cautious on n7 and iPad etc...

12. nwright94 (unregistered)

Yeah they do have the rights, I'm not denying that :) I'm just saying that if an iPad melted they'd be calling apples quality into question and not even thinking about the fact that when these things happen, it's usually something the owner of the device did. I've yet to have any device from any maker melt or blow up on me.

13. chronopc (Posts: 97; Member since: 18 Oct 2012)

Eh. iDevices have their own problems. Read PA and you'll see plenty of issues with the iPhone 5.

14. wendygarett (unregistered)

I respect those issues offered from the PA in order for me to double check my phone situation, by far I see no problem on my iPhone 5 :)

15. nwright94 (unregistered)

This is true. All devices have their issues. My iPhone 5 hasn't run into anything yet but any flaws will eventually show themselves. Like my brothers gs3s back cover doesn't clip on all the way, we've tried different backs. And my iPad has screen backlight bleeding. The problems seem to be blown up on idevices though. Yes I assume its because the super fans claiming that idevices are perfect but it gets a little nuts.

18. lyndon420 (Posts: 5001; Member since: 11 Jul 2012)

Absolutely. It's always awesome when something bad happens to an apple product because the company is pure evil and deserves any negative press that comes along.

Can't be the most valuable company in the world for long when you keep putting out devices that are gradually more and more inferior to earlier attempts.

21. nwright94 (unregistered)

Every device has their problems. I haven't run into any issues on my 5 and its definitely a nice step up from the Samsung focus I was using before. P

26. lyndon420 (Posts: 5001; Member since: 11 Jul 2012)

I agree. If it's running a program or application it will crash at some point. But I'd be lieing if I said I didn't feel an immense sense of satisfaction every time an apple product fails or blows up or simply 'just doesn't work'. Since apple controls both the hardware and software of their products, it makes it difficult for them to pass the blame onto others.

27. nwright94 (unregistered)

We all have our guilty pleasures :) and yes they have no one to blame but themselves or Foxconn, and it'd be just wrong to blame it on Foxconn.

23. frydaexiii (Posts: 1475; Member since: 01 Dec 2011)

As we've said before, it's because Apple is selling the idea of a perfect product, meaning it doesn't screw up, doesn't heat up and doesn't blow up. And even when it does happen, Apple just keeps pushing the blame off themselves and deny everything (Anthenaegate, New iPad overheating, Maps). Yes, I realize they apologized for most of that, but even when they did, they did not explicitly say it's their fault (Anthenaegate = It's a common problem, Overheating iPad = It's not overheating, use it less, Maps = We're improving it, so there's nothing wrong with it.)

So when something f**ks up, of cause we're gonna be harsh on them.

25. nwright94 (unregistered)

I see what you mean. But every company does that to a point. Like I bought a laptop from toshiba and the screen had dead pixels from the first boot up. I called and they said I probably damaged it on the way home and they couldn't do anything about it. Apple does have an arrogance about them, but they aren't the only company to brush blame off.