Samsung Smartphone Battery Catches Fire, Injures Owner

[house70]

There is no confirmation that the extra battery was a OEM model, or a third party cheapo model. Until then, no reason to blame the company.
Given that they have decided NOT to start an investigation into that, likely the battery was not a OEM one, otherwise they would have not treated it like it's nothing.
Even if the battery was an OEM model, the fact that this is their only incident so far does NOT point to any systemic problems with their manufacturing process, but rather to the inherently random statistic that says tech fails once in a while. Given the high volume of Galaxy phones shipped, to have such a low failure rate is a success. Again, this is all ASSUMING the battery was OEM.
[citation][nom]greghome[/nom]So.......this is why Apple doesn't have detachable batteries on anything anymore[/citation]
Nope, not because of this. They don't want customers to be able to service/replace these because they would lose business. Besides, iPhones never had replaceable batteries and they still blew up once in a while. [citation][nom]ericburnby[/nom]Wow, the only two intelligent comments about batteries having built-in protection get down voted. Are people here really that stupid? It's extremely unlikely you could short the battery to make it explode.People who won't accept that Samsung could have a faulty battery so they blame it on the person. Pathetic.[/citation]
You just assume that the battery was OEM, even when the article states there is no evidence for that, including Samsung's own attitude of "not OUR battery, not our problem". Your blind hatred towards Samsung is the only pathetic thing here.

 

[everygamer]

Wow, kinda bad headline for the article. It might not have even been a Samsung battery, it could have been a 3rd party spare. Point is, article seems to leave more to the imagination and less to the facts.

 

[Vladislaus]

[citation][nom]ericburnby[/nom]Wow, the only two intelligent comments about batteries having built-in protection get down voted. Are people here really that stupid? It's extremely unlikely you could short the battery to make it explode.People who won't accept that Samsung could have a faulty battery so they blame it on the person. Pathetic.[/citation]
The battery didn't exploded, it catched fire. Since the battery wasn't on the phone and he was using a secondary battery tons of factors could have played out in this incident. Also the incident is still unconfirmed, as is still unconfirmed if the battery that caught fire was the original battery or a OEM battery.

Also batteries catching fire isn't something new. They happen very rarely, but they do happen, including to other brands like apple, sony,...

 

[mrmez]

ZOMG!!!!

Everyone sue Samsung.

 

[olaf]

Someone asked how whould you carry a battery in your pocket, a case maybe? Or the werry least isolate the + pole if not you're playing with fire hehe.

 

[eiskrystal]

So by your logic you can't ever carry a spare battery around with you?..lol

Not in a pocket along with other metal objects like keys and coins....no.

It's not a big deal given 2 batteries in a year out of however million they've sold. I can see why Samsung aren't overly concerned. Especially when the battery wasn't even in the phone.

 

[halcyon]

^ See House70's post above / page 1

 

[blazorthon]

[citation][nom]ericburnby[/nom]Wow, the only two intelligent comments about batteries having built-in protection get down voted. Are people here really that stupid? It's extremely unlikely you could short the battery to make it explode.People who won't accept that Samsung could have a faulty battery so they blame it on the person. Pathetic.[/citation]

Oh, I accept it. Apple and Samsung have both had multiple examples of dangerous battery accidents. Still, the possibility of it not being a faulty battery shouldn't be doubted either. Also, IDK if this is simply how it was before I commented, but the two posts about the protection potentially being faulty aren't down-voted right now.