A Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket smartphone “was sitting in its owner’s pocket when he felt a hot, painful sensation, making him remove the now-smoking device,” Electronista reports.
“Last week, a passenger on an Australian airliner had a similar experience with his iPhone,” Electronista reports. “The Apple incident was attributed to a seldom but well-known occurring problem with lithium-ion batteries, which can overheat and occasionally catch fire. Samsung’s failure may be related and shows that the device isn’t any more resistant to the issue. The failures normally require a significant impact, but both incidents appear to have been caused just through normal use, though both phones had been exposed to high altitudes before the batteries overheated.”
More infer and photos the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “krquet” for the heads up.]
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Well the Samsung and iPhone are the hottest phone in the market…
One is “hotter” than the other.
Oh dear.. I hope that it is not Sony this time..
They really don’t need this kind of catastrophy in their hands now when everything else is going bad.
Last time they lost 3.2 Billion dollars when they had to replace 4,1 Million batteries.
I know Samsung are getting burned by Apple, but they shouldn’t pass the hurt on to their customers!
Oh dear.. I hope that it is not Sony this time..
They really don’t need this kind of catastrophy in their hands now when everything else is going bad.
Last time they lost 3.2 Billion dollars when they had to replace 4.1 Million batteries.
Does skyrocket refer to the phone or the user?
Are your pants on fire? Or are you just Happy to see me?
Happy of course!
Good thing it wasn’t in the back pocket at an in opportune time….(somewhere a light just went on in a terrorist’s mind)
“Apple’s products came first, then Samsung’s”
Samsung just playin the western justice system
+1
This slavish copying has GOT to stop!!
LOL!
And now we have balance once again.
“though both phones had been exposed to high altitudes before the batteries overheated.”
A phone in a pressurized airplane is NOT exposed to high altitude, per se, at least from a pressure standpoint. On the other hand, they WOULD be exposed to significantly increased levels of cosmic and gamma radiation without the benefit of atmospheric attenuation. But if that’s all it took to light up a battery, I think we’d see a lot more cases of this.
I vote for coincidence and the effects of prior trauma.
Most planes are only pressurized to about 8,000 feet. That’s seems pretty high altitude, if you ask me.
Just another case of Samstunk copying an Apple product once again…….
hahahahahahahahahaha!
Man, those airlines are really getting tough with their “No electronic device usage” rules!
The Skyrocket was just trying to take off.
Plus, no one knows whether either of these phones suffered some significant impact from their owners prior to having the battery problem.
The phone was running the next Hemeroid version, ‘Bomb Alaska’
The galaxy was simply morphing into a white dwarf.
Companies should test their products before launch to prevent these accidents.