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Title: Exploding phone Post by: Sureshot on March 14, 2005, 12:45:42 PM http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/03/14/nokia_thailand_handset/
Glad mine's a Motorola! :o Title: Re: Exploding phone Post by: den68 on March 14, 2005, 12:50:16 PM perhaps I'm reading this wrong but...
Quote A Thai man who had his right leg and five toes on this left foot amputated after his mobile phone exploded is suing Nokia Quote had his handset tucked in his shirt pocket at the time of the accident if it was in his shirt pocket how did it injure his right leg and left foot? wouldn't it have blown a hole in his chest? Title: Re: Exploding phone Post by: Izret101 on March 14, 2005, 02:09:25 PM LOL.
That is pretty funny (not if it happenes to you of course) And Den brings up a hugely important fact in that case. Title: Re: Exploding phone Post by: Arrrhalomynn on March 14, 2005, 02:14:36 PM Isn't this old news? I heard about exploding nokia phones many months ago. Nokia claimed cheap 3d party batteries were the problem.
Title: Re: Exploding phone Post by: two_scoop_steve on March 14, 2005, 05:24:50 PM Hello.......Boom
Title: Re: Exploding phone Post by: Hydrobond on March 14, 2005, 10:51:57 PM Not only that, but he is suing for 13k pounds. Why wasn't this shit settled instantly for that price? I mean, 13k is nothing to a company like Nokia.
Title: Re: Exploding phone Post by: Arrrhalomynn on March 15, 2005, 12:15:30 AM Because that would be admitting guilt. While Nokia of course doesn't think it's their fault.
Title: Re: Exploding phone Post by: Lord Nepenthean on March 15, 2005, 05:09:50 AM Quote Isn't this old news? I heard about exploding nokia phones many months ago. Nokia claimed cheap 3d party batteries were the problem. Take a look at the related articles on that page if you didn't see them yet. There are several older articles about this happening to other people and about the supposed faulty batteries. One more good reason not to own a cell phone. Now if I hear of an N-Gage exploding, that would be ten times better than the Xboxes that catch fire. Title: Re: Exploding phone Post by: Sureshot on March 15, 2005, 10:36:30 AM We had one of those Xboxes when I was at Codemasters. Everyone was sitting around working and suddenly it spontaneously combusted!
Title: Re: Exploding phone Post by: Hydrobond on March 15, 2005, 09:00:34 PM Quote Because that would be admitting guilt. While Nokia of course doesn't think it's their fault. Doesn't matter, it would have prevented this bad publicity it they had settled. Well worth the settlement cost. They have prolly spent more fighting it than they would have spent paying the guy off. |