Man burns his ear on cell phone
Florida teenager has a hot cell phone — literally.



"People think I'm joking at first," Robert Clifford told WPLG-TV of Miami. "I show them the burn and it freaks them out."

Clifford, of Davie, Fla., said the phone felt warm when he took it from his pocket, but didn't think it was hot enough to cause blisters on his ear. He was wrong.

"I didn't know it was a burn," Clifford said. "It felt like I had gotten hit — like someone smashed me real hard in the side of the head."

Most modern cell phones come with warnings that carrying phones alongside small metal objects such as keys, coins or paper clips could cause the rechargeable lithium-ion batteries to overheat. The U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission (search) has received complaints of five similar incidents, the TV station learned.

"The battery kept swelling up. It got hot," Clifford recounted. "The heat kept increasing ... the last 10 minutes it started smelling. The stench filled the whole room."

After some prodding by the TV station, Clifford's wireless carrier apologized, gave him credit for lost time and provided him with a new phone.

The company also asked for the old phone back to conduct its own investigation. Clifford's parents refused.

 

Cell Phone Explosion Burns Man's Buttocks
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - A Malaysian man was shaken and scalded Tuesday after his mobile phone exploded beside him while he was sleeping, the national news agency reported.



Mohamed Radzuan Yasin said he was recharging his cell phone and placed it on his bed near him before he took a nap. Three hours later, he was jarred awake by what he described as a small explosion.


"The explosion scalded my buttocks, while there were burn marks on the mattress and the wall," Mohamed Radzuan told Bernama news agency.


"At first I was confused about what had exploded, but I realized it was my mobile phone when I saw it was shattered in pieces," he said.


Mohamed Radzuan, a 40-year-old electrician in Kuala Pilah district, about 50 miles south of Kuala Lumpur, said he had purchased a new battery for the phone a week ago.


He received treatment for the injury at a hospital and subsequently filed a police report concerning the incident, Bernama reported.

 

 

The batteries are all AFTERMARKET, not OEM...you get what you pay for.

 

wtf.
you got it kcpreki11, you buy a 10$ battery instead of the 40$ one, expect to get poor results