Ubergizmo - Smartphones that have experienced spontaneous combustion is nothing new, where most of the time the cause is due to the battery. Apparently, someone living in the UAE with a Samsung Galaxy S4 that is barely a month old found out the hard way that not all consumer electronics devices that one purchases is free from any and all kinds of defects, as her Samsung Galaxy S4 allegedly burst into flames after she left her smartphone charging overnight. I guess if there is one positive spin to take away from this event would be this
The Samsung settlement is for just under $14 million dollars, but only $2.8 million is actually going to consumers.
The Galaxy S4, in its day, was a pretty capable smartphone. However, with its fourth birthday fast approaching, its update period has long since passed.
It was everything we ever wanted – a high-end smartphone from one of the world’s biggest Android OEMs, without the crapware known as the younger version of TouchWiz. At Google I/O in 2013, Google announced the first two models in the Google Play Edition lineup of devices, the Galaxy S4 and HTC One Google Play Edition.
people dont know how to use phones, im just convinced.