Your Smartphone may be overheating!!! Keep an eye out.

nanna8

I have noticed this from time to time and also with my iPad. I have also heard of fires starting connected with iPhones so I suppose it is good to turn them off for a while if this happens

Last year, my son was visiting. He went out to do some shopping and I settled down for a nap - only to be woken about 40 minutes later by a constant beeping noise which I didn't recognise.

I stumbled around the house still groggy from sleep trying to locate the noise - to discover it was a smoke alarm at the bottom of the stairs.

I could smell smoke... on investigating, I discovered he'd left his mobile phone on a sunny bedroom window upstairs

- and the battery had ignited. It burned the woodwork, but fortunately had not spread to the curtains... by the time I saw it, it was flaming away.

I'd never heard the smoke alarm in action before, which is why I couldn't initially locate the sound.

Thank goodness for smoke alarms.

I have noticed this from time to time and also with my iPad. I have also heard of fires starting connected with iPhones so I suppose it is good to turn them off for a while if this happens

I have to say, it was pretty scary to lose my SIM card and network because I thought my SIM card had overheated and died! Surely that means you lose your phone number? Anyway, I was a bit anxious for a while there.