“Samsung Electronics Co said it was investigating reports that one of its flagship Galaxy S III smartphones exploded in a user’s car in Ireland,” Reuters reports.
“A Dublin-based consumer posted comments and photos on a web site on Wednesday, saying his Galaxy phone ‘exploded’ while mounted on his car dashboard,” Reuters reports. “He wrote that while he was driving, ‘suddenly a white flame, sparks and a bang came out of the phone.'”
Reuters reports, “There have been other reports of Samsung smartphones overheating. In March, a Korean schoolboy reported that a spare battery for his Galaxy S II exploded in his back pocket. Samsung said then that the cause was massive external pressure or force… On Friday, the company said it was still looking into the reported Irish incident.”
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MacDailyNews Take: This is a very dangerous situation. Good luck with that, slavish copier. Maybe Apple could get the U.S. Fire Administration to act faster than the U.S. courts on the issue of Galaxy III importation?
Now, this Reuters piece does not carry a reporter’s name, but it is tagged “SEOUL,” a very redundant move considering how the piece wraps:
“Heat issues have been reported with other devices. In March, influential consumer watchdog Consumer Reports said Apple’s latest iPad tablet threw off a lot more heat than the previous version, lending weight to complaints on Internet forums that the device could get uncomfortably warm after heavy use.”
Reuters is a transparent joke and the credibility of their Seoul-based “reporter” is worse off than that Irish guy’s Samsung lighter. No wonder there’s no byline.
Speaking of jokes, we’re sure Consumer Reports will be all over this issue with multiple press releases, media interviews, self-described “testing,” and more. Right, CR?
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Piece of plastic junk. Flaming derivative crap.
The Samsung Galaxy IED, it’s the bomb!.
IRA version.
What the F**** is Consumer Report doing about this. Are they even taking the SS-III through the same testes like they do with Apple products yet, or are they being paid to review only Apple products?
If they don’t do anything about this issue, we all know how biased they really are.
They don’t have the balls! 🙂
I just got that.
what ? balls ?
no…testes in xzarcx’ post above.
They’ll market this as a spontaneous entertainment feature that’s not available on the iPhone.
To be fair, it seems to be at the point of connection, not the actual battery. Without seeing the cable – and knowing if it’s a proper charger or adaptor it’s easy to jump to unfair conclusions.
Yes, so we should be expecting the press to jump to unfair conclusions about this, right away.
Especially after the whole “iPhone catches fire on plane” that was later determined to be caused by a) 3rd party battery that was b) so poorly installed by a non-authorized tech that they punctured it when putting the phone back together.
The owner at the link above says it was not connected at the time of explosion. Strange.
Actually, I’m more terrified by the construction, which looks unbelievably cheap, cheap, cheap
With Nokia failing there was a lot of room for cheaply made plastic phones in the market. Sammy is the new Nokia
Just how hot does an shorted battery get? At the short itself where it is arcing? Is it hot enough to ignite magnesium? What about VaporMg?
I remember burning magnesium ribbons in high school. Really bright light and rather intense heat.
How long would a VaporMg case burn if the overall weight of the device was, for argument’s sake, the same as a Microsoft Surface™ RT device?
Can anyone say IRA?
Exploded? Don’t they mean it caught fire instead ?
When I read something exploded I expect to see a pile of small pieces they had to sweep up, not a largely intact phone with an untouched LI-on battery in the device.
You mean like this?
http://www.fonearena.com/blog/17012/samsung-phone-explodes-in-face.html
Ok not so many small pieces, but still a bit more dramatic than the S3 incident 🙂
At least something has blown up in Samsung’s face. It doesn’t look like Judge Lucy Koh will be lighting any matches anytime soon.
iPhone’s explode too. It’s battery technology. Don’t blame Samsung when all phones explode.
But it wasn’t the battery that exploded, it was something inside the phone itself, and not very close to the charger plug either.
Well I am no fan of SamDung but I get suspicious about exploding iPhones. Was it not some years back that in France some reports were coming out about the iPhone exploding? Until there is a consistent reports will I crap on Sampung.