08-22-2003, 09:00 AM
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Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Sep 2006
Posts: 3,060
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Talk About Your Hot Phone Calls!
Complain all you want about your mobile phone and it's unwieldy form factor, short battery life and dropped connections. At least you've probably never experienced what happened to this poor lady in Amsterdam: her mobile phone burst into flames!
"A 33-year-old Dutch woman sustained slight face and neck burns after her mobile phone burst into flames, the Amsterdam police said Thursday. The incident, which occurred Tuesday, happened after the woman dropped her phone in a music store in central Amsterdam. It caught fire when she picked it up and switched it back on, a police spokesman said. She was treated for superficial burns by an ambulance team that rushed to the scene."
The news report goes on to say that the woman had been using an aftermarket replacement battery in the phone and that a Nokia spokesperson claims that this is more common than you'd expect.
I guess I'd expect Nokia to say that aftermarket batteries are "bad," but sometimes we're not left with much of a choice, are we? For example, my Motorola phone is about a year old, and already the battery is shot; however, neither Motorola nor Verizon still even sell a replacement battery for it.
So, I guess this story has taught me several lessons:
� ALWAYS have your phone checked after it gets banged around or dropped.
� Don't assume aftermarket batteries are safe.
� Here's another way that hands-free sets make phones safer.
� Always carry your medical insurance card when visiting music stores in Amsterdam.
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08-22-2003, 09:10 AM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Apr 2004
Posts: 151
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nice to hear about combustable phones.
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08-22-2003, 11:04 AM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Aug 2002
Posts: 111
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Re: Talk About Your Hot Phone Calls!
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Originally Posted by Brad Adrian
� Here's another way that hands-free sets make phones safer.
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...and if you're using a hands-free set, don't keep it in your pocket but in a fire resistant hip-pouch...
Otherwise you'll may encounter an alternative nasty surprise...
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08-22-2003, 12:03 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: May 2002
Posts: 140
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Fair dinkum to Nokia, they warned us about this last year before there was any incident.
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08-22-2003, 01:20 PM
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Magi
Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 2,386
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Re: Talk About Your Hot Phone Calls!
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Originally Posted by Brad Adrian
� Always carry your medical insurance card when visiting music stores in Amsterdam.
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...or perhaps leave the cellphone at home or at the hotel when considering visiting a music store in Amsterdam! :wink:
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08-22-2003, 02:04 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 450
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AHA! I knew it! Nokia is manufacturing their phones from the recycled rear bumpers of old Ford Pintos! :lol:
(I sure hope someone out there gets this joke!)
- Aaron
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08-22-2003, 02:20 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: May 2004
Posts: 481
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Originally Posted by aroma
(I sure hope someone out there gets this joke!) - Aaron
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Not a joke! It seems that the aftermarket manufacturers are using recycled Pinto bumpers. The phone manufacturers are partially responsible since they don't sell replacement batteries in order to sell more phones!! :twisted:
Jeff-
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08-22-2003, 04:01 PM
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Pontificator
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 1,264
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Talk about burning up the minutes on your plan! :rotfl:
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08-22-2003, 04:04 PM
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 1,998
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Originally Posted by Goldkey
Talk about burning up the minutes on your plan! :rotfl:
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You beat me to it! I wanted to be the first with the smart-a$$ comment. I was going for something more along the lines of "Perhaps she was in a heated debate." :silly:
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08-22-2003, 04:14 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 153
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So it's the lithium-ion battery casing got cracked and air leak into the lithium component. Instant combustion.
I hope they will do a better job with future fuel cell. Pressurized combastible material anybody? Imagine a future device with lithium ion and fuel cell built into unit. Boy It's a natural handheld explosive device.
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