Dear friends,
Recently I came across a news about a person's mobile
phone exploded when he tried to talk without
disconnecting it from the charger.
The following article which I had extracted from the
Hindu, dated: 7th july, 2007 is a very important
matter of concern.
Worker dies after mobile explodes
Anand Parthasarathy
Bangalore: The Chinese media says a worker in an
iron ore plant died after
the mobile phone that he was carrying in his
breast pocket, exploded,
shattering his ribcage and sending a fragment
into his heart. The incident
which occurred on June 19 has only now been
reported by the English
language Shanghai Daily and other local
newspapers.
Xiao Jinpeng (22) years was a welder and there
is speculation that the
high ambient temperature in his work spot might
have played a part in the
tragedy.
News flood net
Reports flooding Internet sites on Friday have
generally jumped to
conclude that the phones battery might have
exploded hardly surprising
after a series of incidents last year where big
brand laptop computers
burst into flames spontaneously.
Mobile phones use the same type of batteries,
carried by portable
computers Lithium ion, where carbon forms one
electrode, and a metal
oxide, the other however the power
requirements are much smaller.
While major laptop makers have recalled the
defective batteries in batches
(most of them made to a process perfected by
Sony), they have been less
proactive in coming up with a safe alternative.
Smaller lithium ion batteries the kind used by
the worlds 2 billion
cell phone owners were thought to be immune to
exploding danger till
now.
The killer phone is said to be a Motorola make,
though knowledgeable
sources say that in itself might not be very
significant: There is a huge
business in counterfeit phones as well as
batteries in booming mobile
phone markets such as China. The news will be of
special concern in India
which is seeing one of the worlds fastest
growth rates in mobile phone
usage: According to its annual survey of the
Indian telecom industry,
CyberMedias Voice and Data magazine, said on
Thursday, that cellular
phone usage zoomed by 73 % in 2006-07, to cross
157 million subscribers
and generated a 56% growth in revenues for the
providers, to generate $
12.5 billion.
There is now one phone (mobile or handset) for
every five Indians.
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