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Exploding Cell Phones a Growing Problem
Can you imagine sitting there making a normal day to day type of cell phone call when suddenly your cell phone burst into flames, burning your ear, hair, hand and anything else in the nearby vicinity? According to this article, this type of phenomenon is happening more and more frequently. And they have 83 of the incidences on record to date. "Burns to the face, neck, leg and hip are among the dozens of injury reports the Consumer Product Safety Commission has received. The agency is providing tips for cell phone users to avoid such accidents and has stepped up oversight of the wireless industry. There have been three voluntary battery recalls, and the CPSC is working with companies to create better battery standards.
"CPSC is receiving more and more reports of incidents involving cell phones, and we're very concerned of the potential for more serious injuries or more fires," said agency spokesman Scott Wolfson.
U.S. phone makers and carriers say most fires and explosions are caused by counterfeit batteries and note that in a country with some 170 million cell phone users, the number of accidents is extremely low. "
Any comments?
1 in 2,048,192
vs.
1 in 815,730,721
Survey says: Buy a cellphone, odds are you'll get more excitement out of it when it blows up than you will when you win publisher's clearing house.
Actually closer than that. 83 in 170 million is not 1 in 2 million and change. All 83 have to be factored into the entire 170 million. Publishers still has better odds.
Example: 3 in 9 is not 1 in 3. Its 3 chances at 1 in 6 because 6 are still losing choices so 83 in 170 million is actually 83 chances at 1 in 169,999,917. If you were all 83 instead of a potential one of the 83 the odss would go up slightly but not much. One of those mathematical manipulations used to make us think we have a better chance in a drawing than we really have.
Fact still remains, neither will happen to the vast majority of us.
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