On Tuesday of this week, Australia’s aviation safety watchdog stated that it is currently investigating an Apple iPhone due to it “glowing red and emitting smoke on a passenger plane” last week. The device started melting and was doused by a flight attendant with a fire extinguisher.

While aboard Regional Express airlines flight ZL319, from the New South Wales town of Lismore to Sydney, the device began glowing red hot and was dropped by the person whose it was. This all happened shortly after landing in Sydney. The phone was then given to the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) as part of an investigation into the incident in cooperation with the Civil Aviation Safety Authority, who is also investigating the same case.

“We are investigating, it’s quite early on in the investigation,” a spokesman for the ATSB confirmed to AFP.

“However, we do have the phone, it’s in our custody, and we will be undertaking a technical examination of it.
“We will be interviewing directly involved parties and also in our technical examination of the phone we are going to be consulting with the manufacturer as well.”

This incident became known around the internet shortly after Regional Express put out a press released titled “Mobile phone self combustion.” This press release included a photograph showing a broken and scorched phone, which is the same picture as is located at the top of this post.

Regional Express stated that a flight attendant had to rush to grab a fire extinguisher, in which she then extinguished the red glow in line with standard procedure. No one was injured from the incident, and the phone’s owner is not being identified at this time.

Apple stated that they are looking forward to helping and working with investigators, as they have never seen something like this before. They are interested and especially concerned if it is something on their end, though they are doubting that at this time.

The ATSB spokesman did not state which generation iPhone the unidentified owner had that started emitting the red glow, but did say that this was unusual. “We have no previous records of iPhones undergoing spontaneous self-ignition,” he said.

Source: Fox News

Ars Technica did some experimenting and a full investigation to how much data Siri users can expect to see on their bill. Why do you need an active internet connection and data? Well, when you speak to Siri, an audio file is sent to Apple’s servers for processing and the data and vocal response is sent back over the network to your device.

Ars found that each Siri query is approximately 63KB of data, on average of course. What does that amount to? Well, if you use Siri 2 or 3 times per day, you will might to use 126KB to 189KB per day, or 3.7 to 5.5MB per month. If if you use Siri 4-6 times per day, that might come to 252KB to 378KB per day, or 7.4 to 11MB per month. And finally, if you use it 10-15 times per day, you may end up using 630KB to 945KB per day, or 18.5 to 27.7MB per month.

27.7MB comes to a little over 1 percent of a 2GB plan, which is about the standard data plan nowadays. In conclusion, feel free to use Siri, as it uses data, but not as much as people first started thinking.

Oh, and before I forget, the network connection. These rates are for the standard 3G internet connection. If you are connected to Wi-Fi, your data usage will not be affected at all.

If you plan on using Siri to check the weather or the simple features advertised over and over on the ads, then feel free to do this wherever you please. You won’t run over your bill unless you are completely careless. Now, if you think you’re going to carry out an intimate relationship with Siri and talk and talk for no apparent reason, it’s suggested to either get an unlimited data plan (like the no-longer-available unlimited data Verizon plan I have) or just connect to Wi-Fi. If you don’t have internet at your home, you may have to run to the nearest Starbuck’s or McDonald’s to call Siri back. I’m sure she’ll understand. After all, she’ll be in your pants the entire time.

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The iPhone 4S was a huge success for Apple. However, it turns out that maybe not everyone was as happy for the device as others. Shoppers literally went insane trying to get their hands on the newest device. One man in particular thanks Apple and the App Store for the new phone, and with amazing reason.

It turns out that “ThomasMetz,” a MacRumors forums member, was suspicious about his wife remaining faithful to him. Now, he saw an opportunity when out of his own money, he bought her an iPhone 4S.  He then proceeded to install the Find My Friends app on the device without his wife knowing.

According to ThomasMetz:

“I got my wife a new 4S and loaded up find my friends without her knowing. She told me she was at her friends house in the east village. I’ve had suspicions about her meeting this guy who live uptown. Lo and behold, Find my Friends has her right there.”

So he had caught her in a lie. Interesting. Then, he took the screenshots, located at the top, shared them with us, and finally mentioned that they would be getting a device on the forum.

“Thank you Apple, thank you App Store, thank you all. These beautiful treasure trove of screen shots going to play well when I meet her a$$ at the lawyer’s office in a few weeks.”

The wife (soon to be ex-wife) knows nothing about what he knows. As far as she knows, everything is fine and she just went to her friends house.

Source: The Escapist