iPhone 5s: Apple recognizes a battery problem "very limited"

Technology: A "manufacturing problem" discovered by Apple may cause malfunction of the battery some iPhone 5S. The firm at the apple ensures that the phenomenon affects only a "very limited" number of terminals.

Owners of iPhone 5s who find that their smartphone has a very limited autonomy and requires an excessively long time to load may have a defective model. Apple has indeed formally recognize a "manufacturing problem" affected a "very limited" iPhone 5S causing the symptoms described above number.

"We are approaching customers with affected phones and provide a replacement," said an Apple spokesman quoted by the New York Times .

No details were given regarding the extent of the manufacturing defect or geographical distribution. The NYT points out that Apple had already been a concern in 2006 with Sony batteries that equipped some of its MacBook.