As reports and news on Samsung battery explosion are swirling on the Internet, photos of IPhone 7 exploding were also making rounds online.
Someone posted these photos but some noticed that the cause is not directed in the battery of the phone but it has something to do with the packaging, thus, this news was tagged as an elaborate hoax.
According to International Business Times India, the images appeared on Reddit and the time they were posted, comments and reaction flooded online form users and non-users of iPhone alike. But to differentiate, other phones exploded while they are charging but this case is different. It appears that this iPhone 7 exploded in its box looking at the photos that were shown and shared.
According to Komando.com, some people gave varied reactions like the phone suffered a kind of blow that could have made the battery to explode. While some reacted that it seems like someone took a hammer to it.
With all those feasible reasons, people could just conclude that something might have happened between the factory and the delivery, and not because of the battery being defective.
One thing more, this is just a case of an elaborate hoax, according to a certain user. When the photos were posted, a lot of people already started to share this news and made this as point of interest on that time. With this, some other iPhone users likewise started to fear that this might also happen to them.
More so, the report on Samsung phones explosion could have contributed to this news as people have thought that since those first reports were defective battery related, what happened to iPhone 7 explosion could also be the same.
However, it appears that the iPhone 7 explosion is just a case of elaborate hoax.
The owner of that iPhone 7 already reported the matter to Apple and the latter replaced the unit.
With this report of iPhone 7 exploding, could there be a possibility that Apple will be confronted with decrease in sales?
