iPhone meltdown occurs during hardware hack

Not that it doesn't completely go without saying, but whenever you start hacking any battery-powered portable device, you need to freaking be careful. Otherwise you might end up like dude here who was pulling a Geohot on his iPhone when short circuited and became red hot, releasing the magic smoke hither locked inside the device's electronics. Lesson learned: you take your phone, even your life, into your own hands when screwing with components, so be gentle and careful, will you?

[Via Engadget Spanish]

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 1st 2007 6:34PM]

It goes to show you, MESS WITH THE BULL AND YOU WILL GET THE HORNS! LOL

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 1st 2007 9:14PM]

The guy is an Apple PR shill who is trying to scare people away from modifying their phones.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 1st 2007 10:33PM]

... or a clutz ;)

[GreatDay Posted Sep 2nd 2007 3:32AM]

So is this thing going to make me return to ppc's? Will it be a good phone as well? I have come to "like" the Q OK, but i'm thinking i'm still a touchscreen person and am watching the horizon......as well as Verizon (the True Nickle and Dime company).

[GreatDay Posted Sep 2nd 2007 3:38AM]

What the Hell??? I just signed in and a damn post i made on another topic two weeks ago showed up........?

What I was going to say was...........this pix gives a whole new meaning to the phrase: ".......this message will self-destruct."

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 2nd 2007 4:29AM]

HAHAHA AWESOME!

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 2nd 2007 12:04PM]

years ago i mistakenly plugged the power cord from a modem into the keyboard socket on an IBM pc xt. The "magic smoke" was released and permeated my house for the rest of the night.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 2nd 2007 1:00PM]

Not really surprising that bad things happen when you play with any electronic device that have constant power...
Anyway if the guy was trying to unlock it, he may now reconsider using the software solution...

Steve
http://inewsonly.com
The first ZUI news aggregator for the iPhone

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 2nd 2007 11:37AM]

Not really surprising that bad things happen when you play with any electronic device that have constant power...
Anyway if the guy was trying to unlock it, he may now reconsider using the software solution...

Steve
http://inewsonly.com
The first ZUI news aggregator for the iPhone

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 16th 2007 10:14PM]

Christ, if a phone has to be hacked this much in order for it to do what you want, I'd probably either wait for the next generation model or just look into another phone altogether