A Samsung Galaxy S3 smartphone combusts out of the blue and burns off while

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GSMArena article:

Yet another incident with an exploding Galaxy S3 has occurred last night, but this time it hasn?t been provoked by microwaves. Reddit user vizionx1208 was last night woken to a loud sign and a ton of smokecoming out of his beloved Galaxy S3.

Alerted by the really bad smell, he jumped out of his bed just to witness his own phone beginning to catch fire. Here?s what he saw after pouring a glass of water over the phone.

The last three pictures are the cause or consequence of the phone catching fire. As you can see, it?s hardly recognizable as a battery anymore and vizionx1208 says it looked like a bag full of liquid around the time of the incident.

Happily and rather luckily, the owner of the Galaxy S3 is fine and has suffered only a minor burn on his finger from a piece of plastic that had shot out of the device and landed there.

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Sources:

http://blog.gsmarena.com/a-samsung-galaxy-s3-smartphone-combusts-out-of-the-blue-and-burns-off-while-owner-is-asleep/

http://www.businessinsider.com/reddit-samsung-galaxy-s3-explosion-2013-5

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2331945/Owner-claims-Samsung-Galaxy-S3-exploded-sleep.html

Samsung, get your s--t together!

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Samsung, get your s--t together!

You being serious?

1) The first incident was caused by a user who put his phone in the Microwave so he could try and get a free phone from Samsung.

2) There haven't been other reports of this happening.

3) While I feel sorry for the person this happened to, you shouldn't charge your phone on your bed anyway as I've noticed in the past that if the phone slips under the pillow it can get stupidly hot.

But as someone pointed out on the original reddit page, tech sites will chew this up and people will take it the wrong way.

Chances are that the reason this happened is because the voltage regulator could be broke when charging the battery and overcharged it to the point the battery exploded (this is one of the main causes of exploding batteries).

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This kind if thing happens to a lot of other manufacturers as well. It is not just a Samsung problem.

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This kind if thing happens to a lot of other manufacturers as well. It is not just a Samsung problem.

Yeah I can definetly say this is user error. :) I just mimicked how most would react to this, especially the HTC and NExus crowd :rofl: