Fire!!!!!

[strunke]

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/01/15/cel....ap/index.html

[Yankees368]

Oh Samsung...your batteries are just wonderful. (yes yes, i know the article didnt say what type of phone it was, but its just more fun to assume that it was a samsung)

[Quint101]

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Originally Posted by Yankees368

Oh Samsung...your batteries are just wonderful. (yes yes, i know the article didnt say what type of phone it was, but its just more fun to assume that it was a samsung)

Maybe it was a Kyocera. Those things have had issues with batteries. Samsung can do no wrong

[Fire14]

I would have loved to write that investigation report.

See this is why furniture & clothing needs to be fire retardant, it could have helped keep this poor guys burns to a minimum, and is another reason not to keep a phone in your pants pocket.

I would love to see which manufactures phone this was.

[bobolito]

It sounds like they didn't want to give bad publicity to any manufacturer. But it's most likely a Kyocera.

[MOTOhooligan]

I'm also betting Kyocera.

[Telekom]

Originally Posted by bobolito

It sounds like they didn't want to give bad publicity to any manufacturer. But it's most likely a Kyocera.

Considering that the last laptop battery recalls were for Sony manufactured it stands to reason that Sony-Ericsson phones might be susceptible as well!

[hf1khal]

I would not put the blame yet on the manufacturer of the phone. First I would like who the provider is and if this person was using the none OEM battery and if this none OEM battery was sold by one the service provider. We all know that VZW had the habbit of using thierd party manufactured accesories for their the phones they sold and I am not sure if they have stopped it. A couple of years back, the recall on the supposedly Samsung compatible batteries where actualy due to VZW not getting them from Samsung. I know that for a fact as my brother's phone only qualified for one exchange, the original was OEM but the extra was not and that was the one that they replaced.

[bobolito]

Originally Posted by Telekom

Considering that the last laptop battery recalls were for Sony manufactured it stands to reason that Sony-Ericsson phones might be susceptible as well!

The problem is one has nothing to do with the other. Sony Ericsson phones do not use Sony batteries.

[Fire14]

I guess the investigator(s) jumped to a conclusion without interviewing the person, guess he is in that bad of shape & I think either smoking or intentionaly setting himself on fire was the cause. But can't say for sure till more information is available.

Cell phone didn't ignite California man


Fire investigators in California now say a cell phone did not cause a fire that severely burned a man last weekend.
The Vallejo Fire Department said on Thursday that it has ruled out a malfunctioning cell phone as the cause of a fire that on Saturday night caused second- and third-degree burns on more than 50 percent of Luis Picaso's body.

Earlier this week, fire officials believed that the Nokia 2125i cellular phone found in the right pocket of Picaso, 59, was the cause of the fire. But when engineers from Nokia flew to Vallejo and tested the phone, they discovered that the electronic circuitry in the phone was undamaged and that the battery was still functioning.

William Tweedy, an investigator and public information officer for the Vallejo Fire Department, was present when the phone was tested.

"When we reinstalled the battery, the phone still booted up," Tweedy said. "If the battery had malfunctioned or the phone had short-circuited, it wouldn't have worked anymore. And it did, so we could rule out the phone as an ignition source."

Tweedy said the only other possible way the fire could have started was from some kind of smoking materials such as cigarettes, matches or a lighter. Even though none of these materials were found at the scene of the fire, Tweedy said the fire was so intense, it likely destroyed all evidence.

At the time of the fire, Picaso was wearing nylon and polyester clothing, which is highly flammable and likely would have caused the fire to spread quickly. Picaso had also been sitting in a plastic chair, which also would have intensified the blaze, Tweedy said.

Picaso remains in critical but stable condition at U.C. Davis Medical Center in Sacramento.

Cell phone batteries have been blamed for other fires in the past. In July 2004, a young woman in Ontario, Calif., suffered second-degree burns when her Kyocera cell phone burst into flames while in her back pocket. In December, NTT DoCoMo, one of Japan's largest mobile operators, recalled cell phone batteries used in its third-generation handsets because they could generate excessive heat that could short-circuit the phone.

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1035_22-6...?tag=nl.r28011