AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A 33-year-old Dutch woman sustained slight
face and neck burns after her mobile phone burst into flames, the
Amsterdam police said Thursday.
The incident, which occurred Tuesday, happened after the woman
dropped her phone in a music store in central Amsterdam. It caught
fire when she picked it up and switched it back on, a police
spokesman said.
She was treated for superficial burns by an ambulance team that
rushed to the scene.
"The battery got hot and then the phone burst into flames.
It was a Nokia.
We later heard she had used a replacement battery," said Jan Willem
van Hofwegen of Fame Music store.
A Nokia spokesman in Helsinki said similar incidents have happened
in the past and were always related to faulty batteries from
independent electronics manufacturers.
"We've heard about phones that overheated, melted and, in the worst
case, exploded," he said.
"In all cases it was caused by a replacement battery which was not
a Nokia accessory. The manufacturers violated security requirements
which should prevent it from heating up after short circuiting, for
instance, after it was dropped."
He could not name any of the battery manufacturers.
(stolen from Yahoo! News)
