Cellphone Explosion Kills Another Person, Severing His Carotid Artery

When a cellphone explosion kills a person, you think it is a rare
event. When you learn that another man just died for the same reason,
you start looking at yours like a potential killer.

The cellphone of this victim—a man in a Lenovo shop in Guangzhou, China
—exploded without warning in his shirt pocket, slicing an artery in
his neck, causing him bleed to death. The battery was recently
recharged and, according to a fellow employee, it was completely new.
The origin of the battery is still unknown.

Photo
http://cache.gawker.com/assets/image...e-timebomb.jpg
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If a Nokia cell phone had been in his pants pocket it could have been
worse, exploding downward and slicing his...

iPhone 3Gold wrote:
>
> The cellphone of this victim—a man in a Lenovo shop in Guangzhou, China
> —exploded without warning in his shirt pocket, slicing an artery in
> his neck, causing him bleed to death. The battery was recently
> recharged and, according to a fellow employee, it was completely new.
> The origin of the battery is still unknown.


Wow, some people will go to any length to attempt to rationalize the
iToy's lack of a replaceable battery...

"iPhone 3Gold" <vic.healey@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:bc4167ed-a73e-4649-8a46-93965f085539@f40g2000pri.googlegroups.com...
When a cellphone explosion kills a person, you think it is a rare
event. When you learn that another man just died for the same reason,
you start looking at yours like a potential killer.

The cellphone of this victim—a man in a Lenovo shop in Guangzhou, China
—exploded without warning in his shirt pocket, slicing an artery in
his neck, causing him bleed to death. The battery was recently
recharged and, according to a fellow employee, it was completely new.
The origin of the battery is still unknown.

Photo
http://cache.gawker.com/assets/image...e-timebomb.jpg
__

Ya think he just might have been using one of the cheap knock off Chinese
batteries?

Years back a Japanese Yakuza (mafia) boss was killed by an exploding Li
battery on a cell phone. At first the police though it was a paid hit but
turned
out to be a poorly made Chinese battery.

In article <gmav5f$kut$1@news.motzarella.org>, "NotMe" <me@privacy.net>
wrote:

> "iPhone 3Gold" <vic.healey@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:bc4167ed-a73e-4649-8a46-93965f085539@f40g2000pri.googlegroups.com...
> When a cellphone explosion kills a person, you think it is a rare
> event. When you learn that another man just died for the same reason,
> you start looking at yours like a potential killer.
>
> The cellphone of this victim—a man in a Lenovo shop in Guangzhou, China
> —exploded without warning in his shirt pocket, slicing an artery in
> his neck, causing him bleed to death. The battery was recently
> recharged and, according to a fellow employee, it was completely new.
> The origin of the battery is still unknown.
>
> Photo
> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/image...e-timebomb.jpg
> __
>
> Ya think he just might have been using one of the cheap knock off Chinese
> batteries?
>
> Years back a Japanese Yakuza (mafia) boss was killed by an exploding Li
> battery on a cell phone. At first the police though it was a paid hit but
> turned
> out to be a poorly made Chinese battery.

Bought a bunch of cheap rechargeable Chinese batteries off eBay a couple
years ago. Barely held charges and voltage output was erratic.

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On Feb 3, 9:03*pm, iPhone 3Gold <vic.hea...@gmail.com> wrote:

> The origin of the battery is still unknown.
>
> Photohttp://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2009/02/cellphone-timeb...
> __
>
> If a Nokia cell phone had been in his pants pocket it could have been
> worse, exploding downward and slicing his...

IRAN
The true sons of Allah have sized on improving on that Nokia cell
phone battery.

Their improved BlackBerry battery will soon ship to the Israel and
later the USA.

http://blog.wired.com/photos/uncateg...e_romeo2_2.jpg

4phun wrote:
> On Feb 3, 9:03 pm, iPhone 3Gold <vic.hea...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The origin of the battery is still unknown.
>>
>> Photohttp://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2009/02/cellphone-timeb...
>> __
>>
>> If a Nokia cell phone had been in his pants pocket it could have been
>> worse, exploding downward and slicing his...
>
> IRAN
> The true sons of Allah have sized on improving on that Nokia cell
> phone battery.
>
> Their improved BlackBerry battery will soon ship to the Israel and
> later the USA.
>
> http://blog.wired.com/photos/uncateg...e_romeo2_2.jpg


Aha! So that explains Apple's insistence the iToy drinks coaster not
have a user/field-replaceable battery.