34 percent of readers have had an overheating phone

An overheated phone is not that rare, according to our AW Poll. A whopping 34 percent of readers have experienced an overheating phone. Fortunately, the majority have never had to deal with this: 61 percent of the readers have no experience with it.

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Sit in the sun for a while, turn on Spotify on the speaker on your OnePlus and you can bet that you will no longer hear music after five minutes. OnePlus has built something in which it switches off certain functions when it is too hot. While annoying, it often helps to seek shade or put your phone in a bag to avoid the heat and still be able to listen to music. Moreover, it is with a good purpose that the smartphone chooses this: everything to prevent overheating.

Our poll shows that it happens quite regularly. Fortunately, it doesn’t go as far as the people who are suing Google because their Fitbit has given them burns. While 3 percent of people have experienced overheating with a wearable, less than 1 percent have suffered burns. 34 percent have experienced overheating with a phone and 1 percent say ‘other’.

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In any case, syg13 will think twice in the future when taking a refreshing dip: “Yes, I overheated, yes last summer. Put my phone on the seat in the sun. And then go for a swim. After 15 minutes I got out of the pool and my phone was automatically turned off due to the heat.” aeijsink experienced it with apps instead of with a warm summer sun: “Had a warm phone in the past 2013 2016, but that was usually poor quality apps. Shutting down and restarting worked wonders. And I have removed many of those apps from my smartphone.”

Patrick and T_Scheen have a competition ‘who is older?’, because after T_Scheen thinks wistfully about a PocketPC, Patrick throws his HP iPAQ 2210 on the table. The writer of this piece once had a melted Tamagotchi in the 90’s, does that count? †

Next week we’ll bring another overheated discussion in a new AW Poll!