I was on a beach outing with my family and my loaner iPhone 3GS the other day when I glanced at the phone’s display and saw the ominous message embedded here.
It was the first time I had seen that scary-looking screen. But, as it happened, I had left the handset in direct sunlight on a superhot day.
So, my reaction was, “Like, duh, of course the iPhone just overheated. Be more careful from now on.”
I tucked the iPhone into one of my backpack’s outer pockets to cool down and, when I checked on the device a half hour later, it was working just fine – and has worked perfectly ever since.
I wasn’t surprised, therefore, when Apple this week released an iPhone advisory about this very issue.
However, this has since seemingly been misconstrued by some to be an Apple admission of an iPhone-overheating problem. Nonsense, says CNET, in a piece titled, “iPhone heat issue much ado about nothing.”
I agree.
Update: Are iPhones burning up in the infernos of processor overtaxation, or is it all a big misunderstanding? (Engadget)
