13-year-old American, Arial Tolfree lay down to sleep, as usual, by putting his own phone on the bed next to him. Phone accidentally fell under the pillow, overheated and they blew.
According to the girl, at night it a couple of times awoke to the smell of burning. At first, Tolfree not attach any importance, and fell asleep, but soon got up again, to understand the origins of the pungent aroma, informs television channel Fox.
Look under the pillow, Arial noticed that the source Gary is her favorite S4 Galaxy. Screen Android was full of cracks, and the body is almost completely melted and burned bed linen.
The founder of Ariel, Thomas Tolfree, believes that a prerequisite for the fire was broken battery of the phone. The view was also expressed that the products bought by the person must be first not dangerous. And if the threat is present, "this must be capitalized and, similarly, as warnings on packages of tobacco".
Company Samsung in explaining the Fox announced that the battery in the phone Ariel previously replaced, and the phone was not an original battery production of the South Korean company. Additionally, the boss of the firm asked the family of the girl to send them burned the phone, so they can conduct a thorough investigation of the incident.
Samsung has promised to donate a young woman a new phone, and even to pay for the purchase of a new mattress, blankets and pillows. The South Korean firm agreed that buyers should be better informed about the rules of safe use of phones.
In one memo Samsung has a point, I suggest not to use not comparable with smartphones charging devices, and battery and do not cover telephone sets of bed linen, thick clothes and other materials that would impede the flow of air. In the document also it is written that failure to follow these rules gadget can burn or explode.
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