Batteries are notorious for getting hot when you charge them for too long, so considering that no one got burnt it is likely that the offending iPods overheated during or recharging. Given all the various chargers and docking stations you can get for iPods, it is probable that some of these will use too high voltage when recharging and, consequently, overcharge the batteries.
iPod Nano trouser fireballs sweep Japan
Eddie Edwards
Fingered ahead of the probe? #
Posted Tuesday 19th August 2008 13:10 GMT
"It seems that certain iPod Nanos sold in Japan from September 2005 to September 2006 have been fingered ahead of the probe."
I've been known to finger ahead of the probe myself but the iPod Nano's port is way to small for either, missus.
Lloyd
Can I be first to say #
Posted Tuesday 19th August 2008 13:21 GMT
Great balls of Fire?
Pete
or ... #
Posted Tuesday 19th August 2008 13:21 GMT
a small number of electrical appliances in a far-away country get hot - nobody harmed.
Tom Paine
Here's Paula with the weather #
Posted Tuesday 19th August 2008 13:21 GMT
Scorchio!
Mine's the one with the catchphrase cheatsheet in the pocket
Anonymous Coward
Simple Answer.. #
Posted Tuesday 19th August 2008 13:51 GMT
dont put your ipod in a cloth bag and jangle it around with metal keys paperclips etc.... shorting the docking port will end in tears.
Fluffykins
Baked apples #
Posted Tuesday 19th August 2008 13:51 GMT
Yummy
Dave
@Pete #
Posted Tuesday 19th August 2008 13:51 GMT
"a small number of electrical appliances"
shurely that should read "a trivial number"
Torben Mogensen
Overheat while recharging? #
Posted Tuesday 19th August 2008 14:22 GMT
Batteries are notorious for getting hot when you charge them for too long, so considering that no one got burnt it is likely that the offending iPods overheated during or recharging. Given all the various chargers and docking stations you can get for iPods, it is probable that some of these will use too high voltage when recharging and, consequently, overcharge the batteries.
Matthew
Damn you Lewis Page #
Posted Tuesday 19th August 2008 14:22 GMT
The MoD should be buying tested iPod Nano of Death equipment instead of building the UK's own incendariary commercial electronics industry!
<whistles nonchanalantly while strolling in opposite direction>
Vincent
Apples #
Posted Tuesday 19th August 2008 14:22 GMT
They're not cooking apples foo'!
Yeah, that was bad.
Mine's the one with the flaming pockets.
Deb Swinney
UK Nanos Warning #
Posted Tuesday 19th August 2008 14:46 GMT
"* Your dryness may vary. For UK readers, this would be dry in the sense that dry white wine is dry."
What, full of alcohol? That'd explain the sudden flammability, I guess.
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Elmer Phud
@ Lloyd #
Posted Tuesday 19th August 2008 17:01 GMT
If it's in a back pocket then the Johnny Cash gambit is brought in to play.
"It burns,burns, burns" etc
DeFex
2005 to September 2006? #
Posted Tuesday 19th August 2008 17:02 GMT
The chip that is supposed to break the ipod after the warranty expires must have been faulty.
Stuart Moore
Dry white wine #
Posted Tuesday 19th August 2008 20:56 GMT
The Dry White Wine aside is a classic. Nice one.
Dave
@Jim #
Posted Wednesday 20th August 2008 05:31 GMT
Because your a troll Jim.
Anonymous Coward
@ Aw. come on! #
Posted Wednesday 20th August 2008 08:47 GMT
Jim The Boss,
Seems the boys and girls here at El Reg just don't appreciate your brand of humor. Keep trying, you'll eventually win them over... Bwahahahaha
Trygve Henriksen
@Torben #
Posted Wednesday 20th August 2008 10:56 GMT
I believe that at least one was connected to the PC for recharge/synch when this happened, and most people do use the PC for recharging.
Because it uses the 5V from the USB connector, it has built-in charge circuitry, and will regulate the recharge itself.
(No one in their right mind would build a Li-ion based device to draw power from the USB-port without including protection circuitry.)
My guess is like always in these cases; that the affected units all have Sony's Zippo line of Li-ion batteries...
Anonymous Coward
So there's no truth #
Posted Wednesday 20th August 2008 14:39 GMT
That the iPod Nano them isn't Play with Fire by the Stones?
rick buck
Should have read as: #
Posted Wednesday 20th August 2008 15:15 GMT
Hot Pants are BACK!
'cause I love 'em!
Anonymous Coward
Dry, as in dry white wine? #
Posted Thursday 21st August 2008 07:54 GMT
Or was that dry as in "I need a drink - right now". That would be my guess if your pants had just been on fire.
One has to ask the questions, why would anyone want to keep something small and filled with electricity next to their gonads?
alyn
Epidemic? #
Posted Thursday 28th August 2008 09:51 GMT
Can you call three occurrances an epidemic?
Mines the jacket with the asbestos lining