Exploding mobile kills Chinese man
WHEN IT COMES to mobile phones, you want bang for buck, but not if the bang involves blowing you to smithereens. Sadly, this is exactly what happened to a man in China, who died when his mobile phone exploded, severing a major artery in his neck.
Local Chinese daily, Shin Min Daily News, reported the accident happened on January 30th after the man put a new, newly charged battery into his phone before slipping it into his breast pocket.
Chinese police are currently investigating the incident and say they have yet to determine what make the phone and battery were, or if they were fakes.
This is the ninth case of exploding mobiles in China since 2002. Back in 2007, a 22-yr old welder, Xiao Jinpeng, succumbed to his injuries after his mobile blew up after the battery overheated due to the heat of the iron mill where he worked.
Chinese authorities are now warning people not to mess about with their batteries and to avoid bunging cheap, counterfeited parts into cell phones. In other words, use your head, or lose your head. µ
L'Inq
TimesOnline
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Your hatred of all things Apple has reached new lows. The man had put a new battery in his phone, so it clearly wasn't an iPhone, yet you still put a picture of an iPhone in flames in the article. Grow up.
Seriously guys, this pictures going just that bit too far.
BOOHOO, its all too much for you??? BAAWWW anyway, at least its not as biased as to put a sony laptop there instead.....
It isn't funny that people get hurt or killed with phony batteries, but I had to laugh at the play on words. Now off to iWork to earn iMe some iMoney.... (iGone)
More fruitlover ruffled feathers, but not sure why - after all, the item is clearly marked "Iphoney," rather different than the genuine Ifoney product. Chill, fruits.
Which kinda rules out iPhones, doesn't it..? So, your iPhones may earn you the irrational hatered of the Nick Farrells of this world, but - hey - at least it's not going to kill you. The bloke worked in a Lenovo shop, apparently, so I guess it's just luck, that he didn't set off a chain reaction.
I'm surprised those Apple defenders are so upset. Isn't it common knowledge that cheap substandard iPhone knockoffs are the order of the day in China? This picture has substance to the article because it's talking about cheap substandard mobile phone batteries.
Don't get your Apple peels in a amess.
Perhaps if Apple had made the batteries replaceable then owners wouldn't undertake these tasks and the risks associated with them. Perhaps it's a clone. Perhaps it's another brand. But lets suppose it's an iPhone, maybe Apple should consider making the battery replaceable so that owners don't put themselves at risk. And maybe someday in 2009 The Inq will fix the comments paragraph bug.
I'm not really convinced people can get killed by an exploding battery anyway. Serious burns maybe, but death is pretty unlikely.
I reckon it's some sort of insurance scam. I mean, there was that guy who cut his own foot off and tried to claim an insurance pay out.
This case was caused by his home made GUN dropped on the floor and ran-off, wound his neck artery. Nothing have to do with cell phone, battery.
Being Chinese you'd think he would be more careful as that's where the exploding batteries have been coming from...