Shock for 13-year-old Galaxy S4 burns under the pillow – STERN.DE

D as chic Galaxy S4, it’s just a pile of charred plastic. In the U.S. it has come back to a dangerous incident with a smartphone whose battery was on fire: The 13-year-old Ariel Tolfree from North Texas woke up in the middle of the night because her cell phone, which lay under the pillow, suddenly began to burn and stink. “The whole phone is melted,” her father told the U.S. news channel “Fox”. “The plastic, glass, you can not even recognize that there was ever a phone.” The girl was fortunately unhurt, only the pillow has a large burn mark

Meanwhile, the cause of the smartphone Brands is known. S4 Galaxy in the battery from another manufacturer, the Samsung did not put formally was released. The manufacturer, according to the U.S. side “Daily Dot” in the User’s smartphones to the risk that equipment should not be covered or wrapped with thick clothing to increase the temperature of the battery unnecessarily. The father is not enough this statement apparently: “I expect products I purchase, that they are safe,” he said

lithium-ion batteries, as in the majority of. Smartphones stuck, may be too hot and can even explode in extreme cases when not used correctly. Last summer, the case of a 18-year-old Swiss made headlines, their smartphone – also a Samsung model – exploded in his pants pocket, and their work pants tucked into flames. She suffered burns to the thigh second to third degree.