Filed under: Analysis / Opinion , Hardware , Humor , Odds and ends , iPhone Not really — if you really are planning to grill up some meat (or mushrooms and pineapples, they’re good too) today or this weekend, you’ll need a little more heat than your iPhone will give. But it’s true, Apple’s little handheld can get nice and toasty when it’s really working , and illustrator Chad Covino made a little Fourth of July BBQ-themed sketch about that very subject. We love it — very nice work! My iPhone does get hot, but not so hot I can’t pick it up — usually when I’m running 3D for a longer stretch of time or when the phone is doing some serious calculating like audio or photo editing, I start to feel the heat coming off the back. Batteries are to blame for some of the more extreme problems , however, and that’s not a huge surprise, given that batteries in any mobile device have their issues. The good news in that case, however, is that the phone is unlikely to actually explode — the repair guy Wired talks to says that “a little bit of smoke eventually is probably the best bet.” Not that a smoking iPhone is a good situation at all, but you can at least be sure that your iPhone is not quite as hot as the fire under your burgers this weekend

original Source : Want to BBQ with the iPhone? You don’t even need an app