Apple on Friday said it is "aware and looking into" the matter concerning battery problems that were reported on some units of iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus. It isn't clear if the issue has plagued a whole batch of iPhones -- like it was with the Galaxy Note 7 -- or just a handful of them. Unlike the Galaxy Note 7 though, there are no reports of batteries explosions. Early reports came in from Taiwan and Japan where the iPhone 8 was said to "split open", pushing the display out of the chassis. The only component of the phone that is capable of such an expansion is the battery. While the Taiwan incident happened while charging (from the bundled charger and cable), the iPhone 8 Plus buyer in Japan got a swollen iPhone 8 Plus out of the box. When Li-ion batteries become old, they outgas a flammable electrolyte mixture to prevent it from reacting to cause fire, which in turn causes the battery to swell. You might have seen this happening with old phone batteries. B...