SourceA French teenager's claim that an Apple iPhone shattered in his face is a first involving the device but similar incidents have occurred with the iPod, a US television station says.
Marie-Dominique Kolega, whose 18-year-old son was struck in the eye by a piece of glass when the screen shattered on his girlfriend's iPhone, has threatened to file a complaint against Apple.
Kolega said the phone began making a hissing noise and the screen suddenly broke, sending pieces flying in the air.
"My son was frightened but he did not lose an eye," Kolega, of Aix-en-Provence in southern France, told AFP.
The report is the first such incident involving an iPhone.
But US television news station KIRO reported in late July that an "alarming number" of iPods "have suddenly burst into flames and smoke, injuring people and damaging property".
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