Friendly Reminder: Do Not Place Your iPhone In a Microwave

Nerval's Lobster writes Placing your iPhone in the microwave will destroy the phone, and possibly the microwave. While that might seem obvious to some people, others have fallen for the "Wave" hoax making its way around online. The fake advertisement insists that the new iOS 8 allows users to charge their iPhones by placing them in a "household microwave for a minute and a half." Microwave energy will not charge your smartphone. To the contrary, it will scorch the device and render it inoperable. If you nuke your smartphone and subsequently complain about it online, people will probably make fun of you. (If you want a full list of things not to place in a microwave, no matter how pretty the flames, check this out.)

Comments

If you're not smart enough to realize this is BS..

[SirGeek]

Then you deserve to melt the iPhone, your microwave, home and possibly yourself.

Also...

[gurps_npc]

Don't put an unopened bottle or can of soda in a microwave. Or at least not in a microwave you ever want to use again.

Also, don't put your phone in gas oven, or on a hot griddle.

Similarly, don't touch anything hot enough to cook, and don't stick a knife into your gut.

As a wise man once said...

[Black Art]

"Put your head in a microwave and get yourself a tan."

You must dare to be stupid.

Jealous Android users

[Anonymous Coward]

You can't trick me. You're only jealous because your cheap Android doesn't support Wave charging.

Re:If you're not smart enough to realize this is B

[Jose]

The first tip-off that this story is BS is that this charging technique doesn't even require an Apple-branded microwave.

There is no way that Apple would introduce a new feature that does not require new Apple hardware.