A video on Twitter has been responsible for the fire of an iPhone that according to Brianna Olivas, owner of the equipment, began with a small buzz and ended in a terrible explosion.
Brianna Olivas is an American citizen of the state of Arizona who saw her iPhone 7 Plus catch fire in a matter of seconds putting her life and that of her family at risk, because if she had not noticed, the closeness between the equipment and The bed of Olivas would have caused a much greater incident.
Brianna explains that she had purchased an iPhone 7 Plus through Sprint in January. One day before the incident she approached a customer service center because her team had stopped switching on at a moment’s notice, when a quick review was made the team found that it had no problem, although Brianna explains that the Sprint tech told him that his iPhone had a strange way of turning it on.
The next day while she slept she heard a buzzing wake from her bed as her boyfriend quickly approached her to move the phone that was already on fire, and according to the description of Brianna Olivas the iPhone exploded once it fell to Floor of the bathroom where he was thrown.
After this event, Olivas decided to record the moment when the iPhone was split in half and it was quite smoky, a situation that several media and users of the United States viralized through Twitter and raised the interest of Apple to see the strange description of the event.
The company based in Cupertino contacted Brianna Olivias to take their iPhone to an Apple Store and could be analyzed by authorized personnel.
Once this had happened, Brianna confirmed that she had not used any additional charger to the officer and mentioned the comments from the Sprint service in which they mentioned that the Iphone had a strange way of turning it on.
Apple did not discover anything unusual in Brianna Olivias’ first iPhone review, but stressed that she had never seen a case like that, so they replaced the destroyed phone with a new one and the company promised to discover the real cause in a couple of Weeks.
Apple does not want to leave out this “isolated” event due to the recent problem of the Galaxy Note 7, which began similarly and then was taking more and more prominence by the number of cases around the world.
The company, led by Tim Cook, will do everything necessary to discover the real cause of the explosion to make sure that other iPhone 7 Plus will not run the same risk and symbolize a potential danger to its users.
