EE Recalls All Power Bar Chargers Over Fire Safety Risk (thestack.com)

Posted by timothy on Thursday December 17, 2015 @03:18AM from the collect-and-sell-back dept.

An anonymous reader writes: British mobile network EE is recalling every one of its promotional Power Bar smartphone chargers amid safety fears that they may overheat and blow up. The portable blue charging tubes were released in April of this year as a way to allow customers to charge their phones on the go. The mobile carrier, which also runs the Orange and T-Mobile brands, said that it had made the decision after reports of a very small number of incidents where Power Bars have overheated in circumstances that could cause a fire safety risk.

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Not a great Christmas for exploding UK electronics by RogueyWon · 2015-12-17 03:39 · Score: 3, Interesting

I'm guessing that "electronics that burn your house down" are the must-have present here in the UK this Christmas. Just a couple of days ago, we had Amazon UK offer refunds to most customers who had bought a hoverboard from them, advising them to destroy the offending item due to fire-safety concerns associated with the plug and charger.
Are standards of cheap electrical goods with outsourced manufacturing falling to new lows? I'd have thought that plugs and chargers were fairly important things to get right - and probably not the most difficult things, either.