Reliance Jio LYF Water 1 handset explodes

[Spacescreamer]

Reliance Jio 4G real-world effect: LYF Water 1 handset explodes

A user of a LYF Water 1 smartphone, offering the free Reliance Jio 4G SIM, has reported on social media that the smartphone exploded suddenly while he was browsing the web, leading to burn injuries. The post is now going viral on social media channels in India.

The incident comes soon after technology giant Samsung was forced to initiate a global recall of its Galaxy Note 7 flagships following reports of sudden battery explosions.

The photographs show that the user has sustained burn injuries on his hand; severe damage to the LYF smartphone is also evident.

The device shown in the above images is the LYF Water, which is eligible to offer the Reliance Jio 4G services that were launched amid much fanfare by Reliance India Limited (RIL) chairman Mukesh Ambani in Mumbai on Sept.5.

However, the exact reason for the explosion of the LYF Water 1 smartphone is not known yet.

 

[onlyravi]

So What is it?
1)A faulty piece? and bad luck for that poor chap.
2)Improper usage like non standard charger or power fluctuation?
3)Conspiracy to show LYF and JIO in bad light? (By whom is a diff topic)
4)Bad lot of Lyf 1 phones or cheap Chinese material showing up?

 

[skoka123]

Off Topic but important. I do not believe Lyf phones are all that great. I was travelling by Uber in Delhi. The driver was using Lyf phone (not sure what model it was) and the google navigation was off by 500 meters and kept of telling us to take right / left. I had to use my phone (Moto X Force, BTW supposedly shatterproof) to navigate.

 

[rkkaranrk]

So what's new in this? Have seen Samsung Sony batteries exploding in the past, Also had read online about other phones exploding, Sh!t happens sometime.

 

[pratikb]

I agree. Lyf phones ain't have great component quality.
But loads of battery explosions occur due to wrong faulty duplicate chargers.

 

[Lord Nemesis]

Lithium based batteries have always been dangerous this way. Phone brand doesn't matter. Even the best QA checks only go so far. Every generation of Apple iPhone and most generations of Samsung flagship phones have been reported cases of this sort.

The use of these batteries has always been a case of necessity triumphing safety and how safety is selectively ignored. People diss about the long term effects of Microwave exposure from mobile phones, but don't recognize that the lithium based rechargeable battery is the most dangerous component in the phone.

All that needs to happen is for the battery to get compromised somehow and the lithium to get exposed to the atmosphere. It will immediately result in a violent reaction due moisture in the air. Since it reacts with water, you cannot put it out with water. Even if there is no explosion, the reaction is so fast and violent and its near impossible to stop.

 

[RakaKaKaka]

Imagine watching some movie with those VR headsets and the phone explodes leaving you perma blind and disfigured for life

 

[NotMyRealName]

OMG, just imagining a glaxy note 7 and a VR headset ! brrrrrr...