Apple iPhone 3GS Overheating Problems? Big Deal!

News stories have been circulating the media today about the new Apple iPhone 3GS phones having problems with overheating. Whoopty do! Let's see any company double the speed of a phone by upgrading the CPU and it not heat up more without any additional changes to the cooling from the earlier model. Yeah, I know the new processor doesn't get much hotter than the older one because of the smaller transistors being used. It gets hot, big deal so does the iPhone 3G! Most of the phones I've had get really hot after long exposure, what makes the iPhone 3GS any different?

Yeah, we've seen pictures of an iPhone that apparently has brownish / pinkish discoloration. I tend to think this might not be accurate as the inside of the iPhone 3GS has no internal components that match this "discoloration ring". Furthermore, if there was a part of the Phone that were to get extra hot, it would be the heatsink around the edges of the phone.

Why are we just now hearing about the apparent heating issues? Just because someone posts a picture of an iPhone which apparently looks like they placed it on something else that had heated up, everyone now is thinking that the iPhone 3G S is overheating when nothing had been said before. It seems like it would have been a problem from day one if this were really the case.

Yeah, you're iPhone is going to get pretty toasty using the GPS, listening to music and do other things at the same time. It's working at 100% CPU power or close enough. That battery and processor are working hard and most electronics these days perform in this manner once they are maxed out.

We've heard another story from a white iPhone 3G user who had bought a cheap leather case and over time, the heating caused some of the material in the leather to come off and stain the back of his iPhone and he said, So What?! Yeah, it's unfortunate that the cheap material stained his expensive iPhone but was any actual harm caused? No. Will the phone last 2-3 years until he wants to upgrade to the next iPhone? Yeah, why not?  Who's to say otherwise?

Got an iphone overheating? Tell us about it! I would really like to know if this is all just a few isolated cases and the media has just blown this WAY out of proportion like everything else these days. If there are many more cases, maybe we'll just see an Apple iPhone 3GS Recall due to overheating issues? I tend to think not.