Galaxy S III Spontaneous Combustion Tale Was a Hoax - nunezboured57

Everyone loves a healthful spontaneous burning account, which is probably why the media jumped all terminated a forum posting last month by an Irish Samsung Galaxy S III user who claimed their phone had flare-up into flames in their railcar.

"Thus I [sic] driving along today with my Galaxy S3 in my car mount when suddenly a white flame, sparks and a get it on came out of the phone," Boards.ie meeting place user "dillo2k10" wrote on June 20. "I pulled in to view my ring, [information technology] burned from the wrong proscribed. Burned direct the plastic and liquid [the] case to my phone."

While the tale was a good one, it was also just now a tale. Pursual the publishing of a cover Friday by Fire Investigations, a firm hired by Samsung to enquire the incidental, the exploiter came spick-and-span.

"I would like to retract my fresh statement," dillo2k10 wrote. "The damage to the telephone was caused by another person, although they were attempting to convalesce the phone from water this later caused the terms shown on the phone. Information technology occurred due to a large sum of external energy and there was nobelium fault with the phone. This was non a deliberate act but a jerky mistake."

The "large amount of external energy" is believed to have come from a micro-cook.

In his report for Fire Investigations, investigator Saint Peter the Apostle Mansi noted that the physical damage to the telephone's inward components did not seem to have been created from vigour within the handset only sort o from an external source.

He added that the phone's antenna is a passive element unconnected to a power source. "It is, however," he added, "a suitable music director for microwave energy and our tests clearly demonstrated this."

He also advisable that Samsung doubt the phone's owner American Samoa to why the moisture signal detection patch had been remote from the device.

Following the youthfulness's report of the alight Galaxy S III, a Samsung client avail rep visited the user and replaced the damaged unit and promised him many liberal overgorge. IT's unknown whether Samsung will take back the replacement phone.

The Samsung Galaxy S III was released in June and has received rave reviews. Samsung expects to ship 10 million of the units oecumenical aside the oddment of this month.

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