{"id":4146,"date":"2008-09-21T16:09:31","date_gmt":"2008-09-21T10:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/?p=4146"},"modified":"2013-09-21T20:11:54","modified_gmt":"2013-09-21T14:41:54","slug":"exchange-iphone-power-adapters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2008\/09\/exchange-iphone-power-adapters\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Exchange of Apple iPhone 3G USB Power Adapters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that the new <strong>ultracompact Apple USB power adapter<\/strong> metal prongs that came bundled with your new Apple iPhone 3G can break off and remain in a power outlet, creating the risk of electric shock? Well Apple decided to fix the issue by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/support\/usbadapter\/exchangeprogram\/\" rel=\"noopener\">offering free exchange<\/a> to all customers.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4147\" title=\"Apple Adapter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/apple-adapter.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"112\" height=\"140\" align=\"left\" \/>Acting on few customer reports about detached power adapter prongs, Apple is willing to do free exchange of every ultracompact power adapter for a new redesigned adapter. These ultracompact USB power adapters were supplied with every iPhone 3G (or as an accessory) in the <strong>US, Japan, Canada, Mexico and Several Latin American countries<\/strong>. Apple warns users with such ultracompact power adapters to immediately stop using these power adapters till they exchange them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>So how will users charge the iPhone? <\/strong>Connecting the iPhone to their computer with the supplied USB cable, use a standard-sized Apple USB Power Adapter (with fold up prongs) or with a third party adapter designed to work with the iPhone, such as a car charger.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Is your adapter eligible for exchange? <\/strong>The photo above shows what your power adapter would look like. New replacement adapters will have a single green dot on the bottom.<\/p>\n<p><strong>When can you exchange?<\/strong> You can get your Replacement adapters starting October 10, 2008.\u00a0 Order a replacement adapter via the web exchange program (ships within three weeks) or visit the Apple Retail Store.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that the new ultracompact Apple USB power adapter metal prongs that came bundled with your new Apple&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-gadgets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}