While a nice, toasted brown color signalizes a perfectly done marshmallow to yours truly, it’s a bit alarming when it’s streaked across the back of an iPhone 3GS. Now, we knew that the 3G could get pretty warm, and would even warn you when it was getting dangerous. But the 3GS appears to have a different strategy: let it get so hot that it burns the paint.
There are two explanations for the above images:
A: The iPhone 3GS gets really damn hot.
B: The white color (I know, it’s not “paint”) used on the iPhone 3GS is different from the stuff used on the 3G and they didn’t test it thoroughly.
Actually, I think we can consider A to be given, so it’s really a matter of whether B is true or whether A is just more true than we hope.
The discoloration seems to be in the shape of the battery, so it looks like there’s a problem when power draw is too high for too long — and considering the 3GS has more RAM and a faster processor than the already-gets-hot 3G, that can’t be too hard to do. Luckily, Apple will almost certainly replace it if this happens.
Anybody else seen this? Check your phones…
[via Engadget and others]
maybe that guy is just fithy?
i did notice that my 3GS gets hotter more often than its predecessor. this time around i got a black one though, for change.
Now we know why the old ones had just a plain shiny back.
This is reminiscent of the original Macbook discoloration. Apple really needs to rethink how they do their plastics.
“This is reminiscent of the original Macbook discoloration. Apple really needs to rethink how they do their plastics.”
Or Battery.
Or Power Drain.
Whats sad is you can get Apple will JUMP on this issue instantly, because its a cosmetic issue.
Oh? People don’t have 3G and GPS when every other phone released in the last 3 years has it? We will implement it in a year.
Copy and Paste and MMS? Wait about three years?
WHAT? THERE IS A PROBLEM THAT CAUSES THE IPHONE TO LOOK SLIGHTLY DISCOLORED! STOP THE PRESSES! FIX THAT IMMEDIATELY! ISSUE REPLACEMENTS! WE CANNOT HAVE A COSMETIC DEFECT IN ONE OF OUR PRODUCTS! SCREW FUNCTIONAL FEATURES!
It’s true – missing HUGE key features like MMS and cut and paste, nothing for years. But the white gets a little off-white? They’ll have a task force on it in days.
So vain people who overpayed for a trendy trinket during the height of the worst recession in sixty years now have to suffer through heat and discoloration issues. Wow, that’s really heartbreaking.
Can’t agree with you more, but its by far the height of this recession yet. Just wait a year.
hey guys i have an iphone 3g and i am having the same issue with the back turning ping.