Comments on: Man in Korea Killed by a cellphone? http://www.slashgear.com/man-in-korea-killed-288746/ Feeding Your Gadget and Tech Obsessions Thu, 20 Jun 2013 09:50:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Travis Hudson http://www.slashgear.com/man-in-korea-killed-288746/#comment-31696 Travis Hudson Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:35:57 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/man-in-korea-killed-288746.php#comment-31696 Contrary to initial speculation, the phone is actually an LG, not a Samsung. This was confirmed by Telecoms Korea here: http://www.telecomskorea.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4781&Itemid=2

Travis Hudson
MWW Group, on behalf of Samsung

]]> By: Beau http://www.slashgear.com/man-in-korea-killed-288746/#comment-31689 Beau Thu, 29 Nov 2007 16:05:19 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/man-in-korea-killed-288746.php#comment-31689 Meh…. I believe that a cell phone explosion having enough “umph” to kill a person is unrealistic. Perhaps the phone could melt and severely burn you but to impose that the impact of the explosion would kill, I think would probably allow for a much more damaged phone, not a chunk of melted battery case. I will concede that a melting/exploding phone may have contributed to a mans death – especially in a quarry. Perhaps the phone burned him and he fell/tripped in the confusion of his phone burning him. As for me I have little fear of my phone killing me. I would be much more able to accept that the Microwave radio radiation to your brain would cause death, when (if) in the future that research reveals that radio radiation does in fact cause cancer. Just like PVCs were once thought safe, but then discovered they depleted the ozone, and DHT killed not only bugs and pests, but birds as well. And I’m still waiting for them to link the Microwave oven to something harmful.

I also find it odd that people get bent out of shape for this kind of thing. If the paper read, Man driving car drinks Vodka – dies, no one would really rally around that. But I understand the element of the exploding phone’s rarity. But to read this many times over, is just overkill, on a topic, I believe is not possible (or very near impossible).

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