A French security guard said yesterday his face was struck with shattered glass when the screen of his iPhone exploded, the second such reported incident in France.
Yassine Bouhadi, a 26-year-old supermarket watchman from the southeastern town of Villevieille, said he "was typing a text message ... when the screen exploded". Mr Bouhadi, who says he was hit in the eye with a glass shard,said he was "very angry" and planned to consult a doctor and file a lawsuit seeking damages.
"I want an explanation about this damned telephone," said Mr Bouhadi,who bought the hugely-popular smartphone device for 600 euros (28,900 baht)three months ago. Now he wants his money back.
A French teenager suffered an eye injury in a similar iPhone incident earlier this month, a few weeks after a brouhaha in Britain over an exploding iPod music player owned by an 11-year-old girl.
A US television station also reported last month that an "alarming number"of iPods had burst into flames, although without causing serious injuries, a problem apparently caused by overheated lithium ion batteries.
The US technology giant Apple, which makes the iPhone and iPod, assured the European Union earlier this month that the cases reported so far were "isolated incidents".
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