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More Exploding Cellphones In The News
adityapandey writes "It's happened again. Yahoo News has another story on exploding cellphones. Most of these mishaps are blamed on counterfeit batteries and chargers. Recently, Kyocera recalled about 40,000 cellphones for free replacement, because of batteries overheating and venting superheated gases. Yet, cellphone makers claim that such incidents are too rare to care about. Shouldn't cellphone companies be making people aware of the hazards of usage?"
The "Can you hear me now?" guy trying to talk from his neck.
Get the Department of Defense together with Verizon and para-drop a shitload of cellphones in Mosul and other Iraqi hot-spots with flyers on how the insurgents can call their friends.
Instead, they'll be calling Allah.
"Can we blow you up now?" "Good."
Vos teneo officium eram periculosus ut vos recipero is.
Several years ago, I read an article predicting that cell phones would explode in the coming years. They were right!!
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...is figuring out how *I* can make *your* cellphone explode when you're being a loud a**hole and chatting away at the next table, or what have you...
---As my daddy used to tell me: "You gotta be smart before you can be a smartass."
"In later news, the FAA has banned all batteries from all flights... Little Timmy won't be able to play his gameboy on those long flights."
> Shouldn't cellphone companies be making people aware of the hazards of usage?
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
For a company not to have a legal disclaimer somewhere would be an incredible oversight. It's probably written in the manual somewhere - "Don't use counterfeit batteries, use ours..with 200% sales markup instead".
If you're like most Americans you either don't RTFM or you decide that the *OEM Only* warning is only fanatical bourgeois vendor propaganda.
So instead you go buy an "Uncle Bob's El'Cheapo Clone Battery - with Extended Long Life (tm)Runtime" from the guy wearing the long trenchcoat down the street.
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
we should probably have warnings on powder blue crayons too. cause god know how bad it is when one of those gets jammed up your nose and i know from experience that this happens all the time same with screwdrivers and pencils and pens, and come to think of it every other pointy object, they dont have warnings- it must be ok. There comes a point when people stop paying attention to warnings because they already know that they know better, which is often the case- the problem with this is that more often than not, truly important warnings get glossed over becuase they are assumed to be the regular "do not light on fire", "not to be taken internally", etc... ... extended warranty, how can i lose!
"Alcohol, cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems" -Homer Simpson
...will my tinfoil hat protect me from my exploding cell phone?
"It's a wonderful idea. But it doesn't work." -- Tad Danielewski
Dude, you've got a 20 gallon high explosive device sitting in your parking space, right now!
You're lucky just to be alive, and the bomb squad will be over in minutes to contain and confiscate it. We hope you drive a Porsche.
KFG
Oh yeah, the guys with the bandannas and the slimjim are members of bomb squad. They will also need to examine your radio for radiation output, and take your tires back to the lab for testing.
"Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival."
--Dr.W.Edwards Deming
I thought they were supposed to do that.
... in StarTrek, one of the standard ways of getting out of a tricky situation would be to 'switch my phaser to overload', throw it round the corner and hide.
Five seconds later, loud bang, and no problem .. er, no wall ... and possibly no building .... depending on the charge left in the battery at the time.
Don't you remember
because of batteries overheating and venting superheated gases
Umm, it was my phone, honest
I remember the delay in getting my phone earlier this year: The press release said the reason for the recall last time was "Kyocera has received four confirmed reports of rapid disassembly."... "Continued use of the phone with the '-05' battery could result in injury in the form of burns due to the battery's rapid disassembly (which may appear as an explosion), or emission of excessive heat."
So in field of Public Relations objects don't explode, they just rapidly disassemble!!!.....
excuse me while I call that coworker I hate.... I wonder how long I can keep him on the phone.
Obama is a twitter sock puppet
Simply don your Slashdot-approved tin hat (available now at OSDN.com), as it has built-in protection from cell phone radiation. Make sure to use the supplied grounding strap, affixing the free end firmly to the steel pad on the bottom of your shoe.
I've realized why the cell phone makers aren't concerned about random explosions. It just saves their users from succombing to brain cancer. Humane, in a way, and cheaper to litigate.
sigs, as if you care.
...a friend of mine took his phone out with him in a heavy storm, and it got rather water damaged. He decided he'd "dry out the phone" by taking the battery out, and placing it on his radiator...luckily, we were all in the room at the time, and able to enlighten him somewhat...
More people are killed every year by pigs than by sharks
That's the last time I swim in pig-infested water!
More children drown every year in 5 gallon buckets than due to guns
:)
Pleazse demonstrate how you drown due to a gun?
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