After a horrifying video of a Xiaomi Mi 4i turning into light and fire surfaced on the web, yet another phone made by a Chinese phone maker seems to have done the same.
Reports coming from India reveal that a OnePlus One went kaput and exploded while being charged. While it cannot be verified at the moment, the owner of the phone reckons it was connected to the official charger when that happened.
The owner — Deepak Gosain — has since uploaded a video (see below) of the aftermath, and has approached OnePlus service centres. He has been promised a replacement, but according to Gosain he’s yet to hear anything from the company since.
OnePlus India had the following to say about the incident:
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Our top priority is the health and safety of our customers. We are confident in the quality of our products, which all undergo industry-leading safety tests. We are already in touch with this customer, but since this is an open case, we cannot disclose any further information.
All of this is worrying.
@OnePlus_IN@oneplus@amazonIN@getpeid video after the fire due to bursting of one plus one in chandigarh india pic.twitter.com/NRc2hpCm9p
— Deepak Gosain (@deepakgosain92) August 22, 2016
tbh, there’s no video of when it happened rather an aftermath video. you can’t tell if this was really done by an original charger or it was rig or he was telling the truth. now anybody can rig their phones and get a new replacement for free just by taking an aftermath video and claiming this. I’m skeptical
u guys dont find it odd that this happens to sd820s only?
last time sd810 heated up too much, now sd820 doesn’t – it just blows up.
is qc in the business of killing people these days?
I wouldn’t be to quick on sending a new replacement if I was Op. Knowing it being OP1, they should send a local representative to investigate whether the phone was running on a custom rom, whether the kernel was tweaked and was the phone overclocked and etc.