Recently we have been reading reports of smartphone accidents involving electric shocks, explosions and self-combusting devices. We’d like to think that these are isolated cases but when you start to pay attention, exploding smartphones aren’t so rare that you can’t find more than a handful of extreme and bizarre gadget accidents.
Numerous cases of smartphones exploding, imploding, turning red, bursting into flames and causing grevious harm to users have plagued smartphone users for years. However, to be fair, not all of them are caused by faulty hardware.
In this article, we will be highlighting a few of the more prominent cases and dig into the (possible) causes behind these traumatic experiences. It would at the very least put some of us at ease particularly when we are carrying the same model as the victims of some of these devices.
Wu Jiantong (Beijing, July 8 2013) was found spasming on the floor of his home by his sister who heard him shout for help. She succeeded in pulling the charger from the power source but by then her brother was no longer responding. When paramedics arrived, they had to pry the iPhone 4 from his left hand. He has since been in a ten-day coma in hospital (as of July 19). Full story...
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Numerous cases of smartphones exploding, imploding, turning red, bursting into flames and causing grevious harm to users have plagued smartphone users for years. However, to be fair, not all of them are caused by faulty hardware.
In this article, we will be highlighting a few of the more prominent cases and dig into the (possible) causes behind these traumatic experiences. It would at the very least put some of us at ease particularly when we are carrying the same model as the victims of some of these devices.
Wu Jiantong (Beijing, July 8 2013) was found spasming on the floor of his home by his sister who heard him shout for help. She succeeded in pulling the charger from the power source but by then her brother was no longer responding. When paramedics arrived, they had to pry the iPhone 4 from his left hand. He has since been in a ten-day coma in hospital (as of July 19). Full story...
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