Samsung Galaxy S4: third-party battery catches fire – Curved

morning you will be happy to wake up to the smell of fresh coffee – but by the smell of a burnt smartphone batteries? That a 13-year-old girl from Texas but has happened with their Samsung Galaxy S4. The cause is likely to be in the battery, which originates from a third party. In addition, the smartphone centers was also extremely unfavorable.

at night was the little Ariel Tolfree woke up because she was suffering in the nose of the strange smell. The reason for this was the burned smartphone under her pillow – a video of the channel Fox 4 shows that not much is left of the device, the Samsung Galaxy S4 is almost completely melted. “The plastic, the glass – it can be hard to recognize that there ever was a phone,” the father told the station. Because:. Initially he informed Samsung about the incident, he immediately contacted the Press

third-party battery – and the storage is extremely unfavorable

The cause of the molten smartphone is apparently in the battery: the father of Ariel Tolfree suspected that the battery of the Samsung Galaxy S4 overheated and thus caught fire. So he may be right, but this is only one side of the coin. Thus, Samsung has now ruled on the case and pointed out that the battery does not come in the smartphone from the Korean company itself, but by a third party. And this is not just good for cheap batteries, the past has already shown with other devices.

In addition, however, that the storage of smartphones is not exactly the best idea under a pillow, on which the company points. At such a location placed, increases the risk of overheating the battery dramatically since too little to no air gets in this way to the smartphone and it can cool. This scenario is so predictable that Samsung already indicates in the instructions of its devices. But the father is not enough this:. He would not have just stand in the User’s Guide, such warnings should be printed directly on the packaging of the device

Can not only with the Samsung Galaxy S4 happen

an interesting question remains, of course: Why the 13-year-old girl put your Samsung Galaxy S4 under the pillow? It is well known that children like to hide their milk teeth there, in the hope that there is a reward from the tooth fairy. But smartphones? The Fox 4 she said she fell asleep and the phone is in the process slipped under the pillow. So the case is again a good example of that with technical devices should be handled responsibly.