NEW DELHI: Gareth Clear , a management consultant from Sydney, Australia, has reportedly suffered severe burn injury after his iPhone 6 exploded. According to a report in The Daily Telegraph, the smartphone which was in Clear's back pocket caught fire after he fell from his bike, landing on his iPhone 6. He is said to have survived unscathed after he threw his device out of his car's window. New iPhone 6 blew up, claims user in Gurgaon The user, Kishan Yadav, a resident of Wazirabad, Delhi, claims that he did not sustain injuries since he was using a headset at the time of the incident. "The more pervasive these are in our lives and the more people use them with a lack of apprehension that something might go wrong, the more that these things will happen," he told technology website CNET.In June 2015 too, a person called Kishan Yadav had claimed that his iPhone 6 exploded during a hands-free phone call.
Source: Times of India August 02, 2016 06:41 UTC