Dubai: In a second incident of its kind, a Galaxy
smartphone has exploded and injured its owner. Bupyeong Fire Station in
Incheon, a metropolitan city of Korea said a 55-year-old man reported the
previous day that his smartphone battery blew up in the pocket of his pants.
According to an international paper, the man said he was
carrying a Samsung Galaxy Note along with a spare battery in his pocket before
they suddenly blew up. He is being treated for second-degree burns to his right
thigh.
The latest
accident has not been reported to Samsung yet, a company spokesman said.
“Lithium ion batteries can catch fire due to external pressure or sudden
changes in temperature, so we’re trying to understand what really happened,”
the spokesman added.
In March last year, a schoolboy in Gwangju suffered an injury
when his Galaxy S2 smartphone exploded in his trouser pocket.
At that time the phone was said to had exploded whilst charging
in a car, a damaged Samsung Galaxy S3 handset has been deemed to have been
faked using a microwave.
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