I did read in Fortean Times a while back
About batches of phones turning up on markets in China that had been somewhat cobbled together. Meaning right makers batteries installed, but usually the wrong model & often defective as well. These had a habit of while not exactly exploding more slowly combusting in peoples pockets and bags.
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The magic of chutney Shakes it like an Instagram filter!, Wed 4 Feb 2009, 10:22,
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Achem
www.snopes.com/horrors/techno/cellcharge.asp
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Hampster Squared has stuff at www.tilla.co.uk, Wed 4 Feb 2009, 10:57,
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Oh bloody hell, I been SNOPED :)
I am usually more careful, cheers fella.
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The magic of chutney Shakes it like an Instagram filter!, Wed 4 Feb 2009, 11:06,
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'tis ok, happens to the best of us
I was alerted to its chunky hoaxiness by the fact that I actually got sent the (second generation - with pics!) chain email by some daft blonde girl. Otherwise it would've seemed fairly plausible...
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Hampster Squared has stuff at www.tilla.co.uk, Wed 4 Feb 2009, 11:18,
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