“It was just another day at work for the 18 year old Swiss Fanny Schlatter, when all of a sudden she heard an explosion and could smell something funny,” Newlaunches reports.
“To her horror her cellphone, a Samsung Galaxy S3 had exploded in her pants and had caught fire,” Newlaunches reports. “The flames were high enough to reach her shoulder, fortunately the young Swiss woman’s life was spared by her boss’s timely action who ripped her pants.”
Newlaunches reports, “Fanny survived the horrendous ordeal with second and third degree burns to her thigh.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Samsung phones are smokin’!
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Fred Mertz” and “JayinDC” for the heads up.]
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iPhone users unaffected… as usual.
Until Samsung/Google pay someone to have an “iPhone accident” 😛
Hmmm. Apple’s stock prices have fallen 35% from the all-time high. Looks like a lot of Apple investors got burned.
She also is lucky that the professionals, nowadays, mostly use WATER PAINT… and no more white spirit based products: she was just about putting cans back in her boss’s van!
Samesung Galaxy S4. Buy one get burned free!
Welll, I’m not a math major, but it looks like that was twice she was burned: first for buying the POS product, and second for having it.
And by “horrendous ordeal” we mean the ripping off of her pants by her boss.
Whereas, were she an 18 year old working just another day for Bill ‘Bubba’ Clinton, she wouldn’t have been wearing any pants and thus avoiding such a horrific event all together!
Another new sizzling feature ScorchShorts can add to their ads. (As useless as most on the phone so it should fit right in.)
Samsung: Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire!
Steve: You’re holding it wrong!
NYT: Cell Phone Fire Linked to Defective Vibration Module
NYT: Are Apple’s iPhones safe? Another smartphone catches fire burning young woman.
“Woman Burned by an iPhone-like Smartphone.”
There … I fixed it.
Signed, the Apple Haters.
I wish I could give this 10 stars!
I am surprised that the headlines are not :
“Apple competitor phone catches fire. Apple has no comment”
MDN, you fail to see the larger strategy here. Samsung built in planned obsolescence into its Galaxy S3 phones, so that people will have to buy a replacement Galaxy S4 and therefore increase Galaxy S4 sales.
Come on, wake up after a long July 4 weekend!
Just add yeast.
She deserves it for buying a cheap plastic toy built out of junk parts built by criminals.
Had she bought an iPhone from apple, the true innovater and original and inverter of the smartphone , she would have had a better computing life and would have not been injured.
No one “deserves” 2nd and 3rd degree burns. If Samsung executive David Eun hadn’t survived the Asiana 214 crash on Saturday, would you think he “deserved it” too?
While I would not want to harm any of the other nearly 300 passengers on that plane, I would have traded the life of either of the 2 dead or a half dozen critically injured passengers for any Samsung executive.
It’s not just that they are a criminal mafia like organization run by a felon, nor that they shamelessly ripped off Apple who was a huge customer of theirs, its their complete and utter lack if remorse for their criminal theft and continued thumbing their nose at any lawful authority after they are exposed.
I’m sorry but I can’t shed a single year for the misfortune of any executive at that company, any more than I’d shed tears for a mob boss who chocked on some rigatoni.
Apple usually doesn’t dabble in sensationalizing stories, but Tim Cook seems to have a heart. I could see him sending a new iPhone out to the girl. I would like to see them do it without a press release as well. That would be a classy move.
..and she wouldn’t have to worry about Timmy ripping off her pants.
I’d have let Steve rip mine off any day!
Steve Balmer? 😛
Oh, God! Now you’ve put an image in my mind that will not leave. I think I’d rather be toast. Excuse me while I puke a little.
oh come on, her name is Fanny and her pants caught fire? COME ON.
Samsung Galaxy now comes with marshmallows, graham crackers and a hershey bar.
I can’t imagine Samsung using brand name chocolate, that’d cost too much.
Excellent point.
Apple should publicly provide her a free phone.
I wonder if the phone whistled like a bottle rocket before the battery exploded.
Who knew you could use a Samdung phone to cook with. Clearly Apple needs to Ketchup. Also perhaps she was using the phone wrong. I have read that the Samdung phones work best in a explosive factory. Or better yet in a firework factory being so close to the 4th of July that might have been fun. Perhaps it was something in her pants that was so hot and not the phone itself. Expect this to go straight to court and be settled quickly. Say 2052
How is this even possible!? I saw a couple years ago about an iPhone doing the same thing! D: