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SeoulShakin
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SuperFly
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| It's an isolated case, think about it. LG makes great products. Trust me. |
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JamesFord
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It's something to be aware of. In some other countries there has been alot of cases of Nokia phones with certain Japanese batteries that have exploded and either killed people or severly disfigured them. The situations I've heard of however are that the batteries only explode when they are charging. This case seems to be different.
I find it funny that the police official needed to be anonymous. Doesn't want to piss off the bigwigs at LG I guess. |
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JamesFord
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| Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2007 3:49 pm Post subject: |
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| SuperFly wrote: |
| It's an isolated case, think about it. LG makes great products. Trust me. |
The phone is not the problem however. It's a defective battery. Who knows who made it. |
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SeoulShakin
Joined: 05 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2007 4:19 pm Post subject: |
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| This has happened before? That was the first I'd heard of anything like that happening. Interesting... |
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GoldMember
Joined: 24 Oct 2006
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| Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2007 4:28 pm Post subject: |
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Exploding Phones! Great, where can I get one.
I'll throw it, at the next SOB who runs a red at a pedestrian crossing.
Doesn't have to be a phone, any Korean product that explodes will be sufficient. |
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xenok
Joined: 03 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2007 5:04 pm Post subject: |
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| it's a LG phone, my bet is that it used a battery from LG Chemical. |
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JamesFord
Joined: 14 Jun 2007
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| Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2007 5:08 pm Post subject: |
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| SeoulShakin wrote: |
| This has happened before? That was the first I'd heard of anything like that happening. Interesting... |
It's been a big problem in India. |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2007 5:44 pm Post subject: |
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| There was a worse problem recently with exploding laptop batteries. |
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PhD
Joined: 15 May 2007
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| Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2007 5:54 pm Post subject: |
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What a load of hogwash!
The guy was at the bottom of a quarry with fractures of the vertebra and a melted battery. If he fell from any height, the battery could have imploded on impact, but it wouldn't have killed the man.
LG is right. Virtually impossible. A battery can explode while charging IF the poles on the charger are reversed, and if the heat load is too high. But the volume of acids produced will HARDLY kill a person.
Yet another Korean Urban Legend! Fan death revisited. |
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xingyiman
Joined: 12 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2007 6:39 pm Post subject: |
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| PhD wrote: |
What a load of hogwash!
The guy was at the bottom of a quarry with fractures of the vertebra and a melted battery. If he fell from any height, the battery could have imploded on impact, but it wouldn't have killed the man.
LG is right. Virtually impossible. A battery can explode while charging IF the poles on the charger are reversed, and if the heat load is too high. But the volume of acids produced will HARDLY kill a person.
Yet another Korean Urban Legend! Fan death revisited. |
Yeah could you imagine "Cell Phone Death"!
What would all the Korean gals do without their phones? |
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nobbyken
Joined: 07 Jun 2006
Location: Yongin ^^
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| Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2007 7:30 pm Post subject: |
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Saw this on the news last night.
They drilled a hole in a battery on the back of a phone and it went mental (who wouldn't?): flying about the table like a firework.
My wife said that they put 4 phones in a bag, and one of them exploded.
I don't know how much was lost in translation.
Just before Christmas, they'll probably do a recall of all phones! |
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jvalmer
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99.99999% of people would drop a phone if it started sparking. Like a previous poster said, batteries exploding is virtually impossible under normal conditions. And even if it did explode, WHILE he was talking on the phone, he still would be alive but would have burns to one hand and one side of the face.
Anyways, I've only seen a battery explode once, but it was a AA battery and someone threw it in a fire. |
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maeil
Joined: 09 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2007 8:39 pm Post subject: |
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I've had my cell phone, using the same battery, for over 2 years now. Quite suddenly the battery power dropped off, to the point where I have to charge it twice a day just to make one or two phone calls and a handful of text messages.
When I took the battery out of the phone, it looked and felt swollen. Now I can't even get it back into the phone. Anyone know what might have caused that? |
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nobbyken
Joined: 07 Jun 2006
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| Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2007 9:02 pm Post subject: |
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| nobbyken wrote: |
Saw this on the news last night.
They drilled a hole in a battery on the back of a phone and it went mental (who wouldn't?): flying about the table like a firework.
My wife said that they put 4 phones in a bag, and one of them exploded.
I don't know how much was lost in translation.
Just before Christmas, they'll probably do a recall of all phones! |
My wife confirmed that it seemed to be a problem with older phones, but the newer phones didn't explode. However, people did put 3 new phones next to each other and they caught fire! |
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