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igotthisguitar
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 Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 1:29 pm Post subject: Exploding Hand-Phones |
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Cell Phone Battery Explodes In The Night
James Niccolai, IDG News Service
Thu Nov 29, 10:00 AM ET
A New Zealand man was woken in the middle of the night when his cell phone battery exploded and burst into flames, the second exploding battery incident reported this week.
MORE ...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/140101;_ylt=AlWUyIe.2mmGX5qnpg.oZ3UDW7oF |
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gypsyfish
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The local papers yesterday didn't release the cell phone brand saying the police refused/declined to do so. I notice AP did. LG Electronics must not have gotten the white envelope out fast enough.  |
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crazy_arcade
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| Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 4:34 pm Post subject: |
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| The local papers yesterday didn't release the cell phone brand saying the police refused/declined to do so. I notice AP did. LG Electronics must not have gotten the white envelope out fast enough. |
Way to show off those fantastic reading comprehension skills.....
since the phone in New Zealand was a Nokia......
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gypsyfish
Joined: 17 Jan 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 11:29 pm Post subject: |
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| crazy_arcade wrote: |
| gypsyfish wrote: |
| The local papers yesterday didn't release the cell phone brand saying the police refused/declined to do so. I notice AP did. LG Electronics must not have gotten the white envelope out fast enough. |
Way to show off those fantastic reading comprehension skills.....
since the phone in New Zealand was a Nokia......
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Um ... but the phone in Korea was an LG. Excerpt from the Yahoo article:
... Also Wednesday, police in South Korea said a worker may have died because his cell phone battery exploded in his pocket, the Associated Press reported. The man was found dead at his workplace in a quarry with a melted cell phone battery in his shirt pocket, according to the report.
The doctor who examined the man said the pressure caused by the explosion may have "damaged his heart and lungs" and led to his death, according to the AP, which quoted a local news agency. That phone was made by LG Electronics, reports said.
With close to 300 million cell phones sold in the world last quarter, such battery explosions are considered extremely rare. ...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/140101;_ylt=AlWUyIe.2mmGX5qnpg.oZ3UDW7oF
"Way to show off those fantastic reading comprehension skills..... " indeed.
Now don't we feel stup-, er ... silly? |
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