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  • From: "Alan MacHett" <machett AT ibiblio.org>
  • To: internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [internetworkers] [addendum] Death by cell phone
  • Date: Sun, 4 Jul 2004 23:48:45 -0400 (EDT)

seriously, tho', check your batteries. I'd hate to lose anyone on INW
because Verizon killed you...


http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/ptech/06/25/verizon.recall.ap/index.html

Verizon recalls cell phone batteries because of burn risks

Friday, June 25, 2004 Posted: 11:00 AM EDT (1500 GMT)

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Verizon Wireless is recalling about 50,000 LG brand
cell phone batteries, some of which may be counterfeit, because they can
overheat when charging and cause burns.

Among the 18 reports involving the TM-510 batteries, a phone exploded and
burned the user, and a fire in a car began after a phone overcharged,
spokesman Scott Wolfson of the Consumer Product Safety Commission said
Thursday.

The batteries lack safety devices to detect overcharging, the commission
said.





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