Don’t use your phone when it’s charging. Here’s the reason
Although smartphones make our life easier but there are also many things that can put us in danger. For instance, you should not use your phone while it’s charging. Moreover, it is extremely dangerous to cover the device with your body, dress or bedding because it can burst and cause a flame. One such story is about an Indian kid whose hand has been hurt badly because his phone exploded from a supposed expanded radiation caused by low battery.
Many people believe that when the baterry is low, mobile phones emit radiation. However, low battery is not the culprit – the weak sign is. When your smartphone has a weak signal, the phone works harder thus emits more radiation. This means that you should keep distance from the smartphone when in an elevator, remote country sides or other structures.
Yet, the true story about this kid is that he used a non –endorsed Chinese charger. Stay away from this fake chargers because they put you at risk of blasts and exposions and it can seriously damage parts of your body. Even the big companies like Samsung are advising their customers not to use non-endorsed chargers for their smartphones.
Below are more stories that will persuade you not to use your phone when it’s charging.
Gabbie Fedro, 13, has suffered some pretty severe burns after her cell phone charger overheated and caused her second-degree burns. Her T-Mobile LG d500 was a Christmas present and caused her this acci.dent.
Her father retells how he was at their home and heard screaming coming from his daughter’s bedroom. Her mothers says that she was terrified when she saw her daughter running downstairs, grabbing her neck and screaming hysterically because of the pain. There are other cases and events in which phone chargers have shown to be dangerous. Most of the acc.idents come from overheating of the phone’s lithium-ion batteries, which can lead to explosions and burns.
There was a case in June 2014 when a defective USB phone charger caused the death of a woman. This Australian woman, mother of two, Sheryl Anne Aldeguer d.i.ed from this faulty USB phone charger which sent a high current through her body while she was wearing headphones and talking on the phone at the same time.
The problem was that at that time, her phone was plugged into a wall socket. This event was reasonably paid a lot of attention to, as it represents a public alert about cheap electronics. It also stimulated Fair Trading to issue a warning over the sale of unapproved USB chargers on the territory of New South Wales.
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In 2010, a Colorado tot suffered third-degree burns after she put an Apple USB cable into her mouth. Of course, she was distressed. The USB cable was plugged into a laptop, the Denver Channel reports.
A defective USB charger caused the death of a woman in Australia in 2014, the Sydney Morning Herald reports. This woman was allegedly electrocuted while she was talking on the phone. The charger of the phone was to blame for the accident.
A Chinese woman was supposedly electrocuted while using a defective charger in 2013. Apple investigated this case and then posted a caution to its Chinese website urging consumers to avoid using third-party chargers.
Nevertheless, if your mobile phone and mobile phone charger work properly and adequately, there is no explicit or inherent danger. In addition, the practice of using the cell phone while it is being charged is repeated thousands of times daily all over the world without any incident or injury. This is particularly true in an age when people use their smart phoned non-stop and for a great part of the day, not only when they make or take phone calls.
References: 9gag.com, keepyourbody.com
