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Droid 2 explodes, injuring Texas man
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The following comments relate to this news article:
article published on 3 December, 2010
Aron Embry of Texas has claimed today that his brand new Droid 2 smartphone exploded while he was making a call this morning, injuring his ear, neck and face.
Says Embry: "I heard a pop. I didn't feel any pain initially. I pulled the phone down. I felt something dripping. I realized that it probably was blood. I went into the house and as I got into the bathroom and once I got to the ... [ read the full article ]
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3. December 2010 @ 17:09 |
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Originally posted by RuneJayce:
Originally posted by dEwMe:
Originally posted by RuneJayce:
All you people who claim he's lying should be damn ashamed of yourselves!
Are you really that dumb or stupid to not think that shock can cause people to react in different ways depending on the severity of the incident!
Whatever happened to innocent until proven guilty?
What's the odds if he is telling the truth, you're all going to look pretty stupid!
At the end of the day, this has just made my decision never to buy a piece of crap phone like a Motorola one even easier!
Did I miss a </sarcasm> or something?
I hope we hear when they bust these morons!!!
Oh I'm SOOOOOOO sorry for forgetting to add the sarcasm tag!</sarcasm>
Whatever happened to innocent until proven guilty? Oh I forgot, this is America, they don't do that sort of thing there!</sarcasm>
You say don't condemn the guy but you condemn Motorola so how does that work, what a hypocrite you are, your comments are worthless.
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RuneJayce
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3. December 2010 @ 17:46 |
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Originally posted by Mr-Movies:
Originally posted by RuneJayce:
Originally posted by dEwMe:
Originally posted by RuneJayce:
All you people who claim he's lying should be damn ashamed of yourselves!
Are you really that dumb or stupid to not think that shock can cause people to react in different ways depending on the severity of the incident!
Whatever happened to innocent until proven guilty?
What's the odds if he is telling the truth, you're all going to look pretty stupid!
At the end of the day, this has just made my decision never to buy a piece of crap phone like a Motorola one even easier!
Did I miss a </sarcasm> or something?
I hope we hear when they bust these morons!!!
Oh I'm SOOOOOOO sorry for forgetting to add the sarcasm tag!</sarcasm>
Whatever happened to innocent until proven guilty? Oh I forgot, this is America, they don't do that sort of thing there!</sarcasm>
You say don't condemn the guy but you condemn Motorola so how does that work, what a hypocrite you are, your comments are worthless.
So why are my comments worthless if I say that I think Motorola phones are crap?
If I want to condemn Motorola, I'll damn well condemn them if I want to!
As I said before, I believe he's innocent and those who are willing to condemn him because they think 2+" = 5 are going to look like stupid idiots when it's proven that he's innocent!
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3. December 2010 @ 18:05 |
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Wow RuneJayce you truly are inept aren?t you, WOW!
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3. December 2010 @ 18:36 |
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Now I can't say whether it's true or not but it sounds fishy only because if the phone was held up to his ear, wouldn't the doctor have found glass inside his ear and quite possibly a lacerated or ruptured eardrum? (Depending on the force involved mind you) Not to mention some hand injuries ie minor burns or lacerations?
I dunno doesn't motorola do testing to see worst-case scenarios on their phones prior to being released to the public market? (Ie lets overcharge the battery to see what happens or what happend if we run it pver with a car, etc.)
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3. December 2010 @ 18:54 |
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Originally posted by XENON:
Now I can't say whether it's true or not but it sounds fishy only because if the phone was held up to his ear, wouldn't the doctor have found glass inside his ear and quite possibly a lacerated or ruptured eardrum? (Depending on the force involved mind you) Not to mention some hand injuries ie minor burns or lacerations?
I dunno doesn't motorola do testing to see worst-case scenarios on their phones prior to being released to the public market? (Ie lets overcharge the battery to see what happens or what happend if we run it pver with a car, etc.)
I agree it is very fishy as his hand would get the brunt of this. As to Motorola testing goes they would only put the prototype phones through aggressive testing, as to the manufacturing line they would only check to see if it powers up and acquires signal.
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3. December 2010 @ 21:06 |
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Originally posted by RuneJayce:
Originally posted by Mr-Movies:
Originally posted by RuneJayce:
Originally posted by dEwMe:
Originally posted by RuneJayce:
All you people who claim he's lying should be damn ashamed of yourselves!
Are you really that dumb or stupid to not think that shock can cause people to react in different ways depending on the severity of the incident!
Whatever happened to innocent until proven guilty?
What's the odds if he is telling the truth, you're all going to look pretty stupid!
At the end of the day, this has just made my decision never to buy a piece of crap phone like a Motorola one even easier!
Did I miss a </sarcasm> or something?
I hope we hear when they bust these morons!!!
Oh I'm SOOOOOOO sorry for forgetting to add the sarcasm tag!</sarcasm>
Whatever happened to innocent until proven guilty? Oh I forgot, this is America, they don't do that sort of thing there!</sarcasm>
You say don't condemn the guy but you condemn Motorola so how does that work, what a hypocrite you are, your comments are worthless.
So why are my comments worthless if I say that I think Motorola phones are crap?
If I want to condemn Motorola, I'll damn well condemn them if I want to!
As I said before, I believe he's innocent and those who are willing to condemn him because they think 2+" = 5 are going to look like stupid idiots when it's proven that he's innocent!
Mate you going by this the total wrong way. You can't condemn Motorola to "being crap" if you're judging by this and believe in innocent until proven guilty cuz it applies to both the apparent "victim (the man)" here and the apparent "suspect (motorola" too.
But Mr-Movies is a bit wrong by saying "your comments are worthless" as well, because they hold some truths. It's just that your contradicting yourself that makes your entire comment seem worthless since, that's what a contradiction is. An end result that cancels out the beginning, thus no point proven = worthlessness.
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3. December 2010 @ 21:47 |
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Originally posted by Zealousi:
last phone i knew that blew up was a nokia 3210 in India but that was really old and this one is quite new, i mite 2nd that fishy statement as he is doing the it the american way "Sue Em".
Believe me there are all kinds of dicey batteries floating around in the Indian market. The one that exploded probably used one of those el cheapo US$ 5/- replacement batteries. Come to think of it I haven't seen a single genuine CR2032 batteries - kind used on motherboards and old time digital diaries - in a very long while like almost 10 years. All you get are Chinese duplicates repackaged in India and marked as the real thing.
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3. December 2010 @ 22:04 |
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i call bs. the phone doesnt look exploded. no burn marks. blook does look smeared. lcd screen is a thin layer film. there is glass or plastic in the display with LEDs that do not explode. capacitors can pop but those kind are not in a phone. resistors and diodes can pop as well but they are so small in a phone.
if the battery blew up the phone would not continue to ring.
i will point out one thing though, when a battery blows it can pop out at a casing seam or something releasing gas build up and jet out anywhere. so a battery popping and shooting out near the speaker is plausible in a given situation. all depends on phone design and location of battery. but not this one. can't see it breaking the glass/plastic face.
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3. December 2010 @ 22:27 |
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Originally posted by biglo30:
Hmmm would like to hear the outcome of this one. Sounds more like a manufacturing defect to me but I guess thats something that is very hard to determine since we really don't know how he actually took care of the device.
Yeah right. When I get injured I always drive to where my wife works and the call 911, and all this while taking pics of the "damage". I hope he atleast had enough since to pull over and take the pics!
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3. December 2010 @ 23:45 |
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everybody!!!! watch your comments as both parties are innocent til found otherwise. this is same situation with quantas airlines & rolls-royce about the airbus 380 engine that blew. each blame the other but now appears to be rolls-royce is at fault for faulty assembly.
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3. December 2010 @ 23:50 |
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Originally posted by ddp:
everybody!!!! watch your comments as both parties are innocent til found otherwise. this is same situation with quantas airlines & rolls-royce about the airbus 380 engine that blew. each blame the other but now appears to be rolls-royce is at fault for faulty assembly.
uh oh sounds like ddp might be bringing out the "banhammer"!! ;o)
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4. December 2010 @ 04:06 |
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Originally posted by corderbo:
It is certainly possible folks. I use the batteries from cell phones to power my radio controlled model airplanes (Li-Poly) and we have had several of them explode, some quite violently but it is usually the operators fault. If you charge them at a higher rate than specified they will puff up and explode. If you accidently poke one of them with a sharp object and penetrate the protective cover they will explode so I know they will explode and/or erupt into flame and smoke. I would wait until the engineers examine the battery to see what caused it and it may well be a manufacturing fault.
Bob
As others have said, Li-On batteries don't work after they explode! The battery in this phone still works, so clearly the battery did not explode. If it wasn't the battery, then what else could it be? I highly doubt the antenna exploded...I don't think the SIM card or microSD card did either. Perhaps the plastic casing itself transfigured into an explosive? Can you honestly think of anything on any phone that could explode other than the battery?
That said, the battery might still be to blame...it is possible that the guy was getting out of his car, and he grabbed his phone and slammed the door at the same time. The charger was still connected, so he only got the phone to the doorsill by the time the door slammed, causing minor hand injuries and the destruction of the phone.
BTW...his wife clearly knows that he is full of crap because she is full of crap. He can use the painkillers as an excuse for sounding like he is telling a lie...what is the wife's excuse for sounding like a 5-year-old making up a story for how the soda got spilled on the carpet?
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4. December 2010 @ 06:07 |
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Originally posted by ddp:
everybody!!!! watch your comments as both parties are innocent til found otherwise. this is same situation with quantas airlines & rolls-royce about the airbus 380 engine that blew. each blame the other but now appears to be rolls-royce is at fault for faulty assembly.
Thank God there's a Mod out there with common sense!
He's right! At the end of the day, both parties are innocent until proven guilty PLUS Gorilla Glass isn't immune from being broken either!
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4. December 2010 @ 11:56 |
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Ok folks. Tell me something. When you have something like that happen who do you call first? Do you call paramedics? Do you call your spouse? Only call spouse when you need someone to backup your story. Get emergency help first! Common sense, huh? Oh, but then I forget there are some who have NO common sense.
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4. December 2010 @ 14:01 |
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LoL...he didn't call his spouse...that would have been too quick, and he might have scraped his ear on the rough glass. Instead he drove all the way to her office, and then waited for someone else to come and take him to the hospital. Yup...that sounds like a man that is in a hurry.
BTW...I know Gorilla Glass isn't break-proof (even diamonds can be destroyed), but it is virtually shatter proof. Even after being hit hard enough to cause a break, there are multiple layers of rubberish plastic throughout...you may get shards, but they won't be able to come flying out (as the video shows).
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4. December 2010 @ 15:43 |
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Originally posted by KillerBug:
BTW...I know Gorilla Glass isn't break-proof (even diamonds can be destroyed), but it is virtually shatter proof. Even after being hit hard enough to cause a break, there are multiple layers of rubberish plastic throughout...you may get shards, but they won't be able to come flying out (as the video shows).
Exactly there's no such thing as shatter PROOF only more shatter RESISTANT.
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4. December 2010 @ 19:19 |
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Hummmmm, Land Phone?
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4. December 2010 @ 21:34 |
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No one close to where he was would have a cell phone either I'm sure since they are very rare these days. Plus if he is going to drive to his girlfriend?s work and call 911 why not just drive to the ER?? That's what I would do it's not like he is crippled and can't drive obviously since he drove to his girlfriend?s work.
After looking at the phone again, I must say it does look like the battery did blow though the face plate and that could happen. His actions may seem fishy, but considering he isn't the brightest bulb in the pack, not even close, may explain his poor actions. I don't buy the techs statement, he only said what company policy wanted/expects him to say.
Again an expensive or cheap battery can do this, just because you spend $80 for a battery doesn?t mean it can?t blow up.
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5. December 2010 @ 02:40 |
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everybody!!!! watch your comments as both parties are innocent til found otherwise. this is same situation with quantas airlines & rolls-royce about the airbus 380 engine that blew. each blame the other but now appears to be rolls-royce is at fault for faulty assembly.
That's the beauty of free speech.
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5. December 2010 @ 09:46 |
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think the guy is genuine, if you get a nick on the face or ear
you can loose loads of blood, anyhow you would not want this to happen to your self, and have all the hassle of courts and law suits now would you, so give the guy a break . never new there was so many, crime investigators on the web mumping there gums
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5. December 2010 @ 14:18 |
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Makes no difference whether this guy gets a settlement or not because he's already been paid by Apple to make his claim. Who wants an exploding phone when you can get an Iphone that you can't call anyone on but at least you don't burn your face.
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5. December 2010 @ 14:53 |
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Originally posted by dmcelroy:
think the guy is genuine, if you get a nick on the face or ear
you can loose loads of blood
You can lose a lot of blood depending on the location, the length and depth of the laceration and the cuts proximity to major arteries/veins. you might also invest in a spell/grammar checker. as a few of your words are incorrect. (new should be Knew) just an FYI. and as to your comment about criminal investigators...1 it's called common sense and 2 It's a thing called first aid/EMT training.
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5. December 2010 @ 15:25 |
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Originally posted by 20TONS:
He then drove to his wife's job and they called 911, while also taking pictures of the damage.
Sounds fishy to me. He drives to his spouses place of employment, calls 911 while taking pictures of the damage. Someone must be in debt up to their ears and needs a quick buck.
My sentiments too. I wonder how many minutes elapsed between calling 911 and his lawyer? He plans to sue (of course). Ka-ching...
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