Samsung P10 laptop battery "melts" in South Korea

Merely days after LG put the brakes on sales of its Z1-AE007 laptop due to suspicions of a faulty battery within, yet another lappie in South Korea is making headlines for its overheating, er, abilities. Reportedly, the battery in a P10 computer, produced in 2002, "melted" after inexplicably emitting smoke during use. The device managed to burn a bed and a certain part of the floor, but thankfully, no "big fire" was started. According to company spokesman James Chung, Samsung is now "checking details of the incident," but the actual manufacturer of said battery has yet to be revealed.

[phanbouy @ Feb 24th 2008 9:29PM]

Everybody James Chung tonight

[CHinese SLaves R Dirty @ Feb 25th 2008 4:04AM]

BTW, has anyone ever heard of sammeng, a chinese copycat manufacturer?

http://photoimg.enjoyjapan.naver.com/view/enjoybbs/viewphoto/teconomy/3364000/20080127120137330341494500.jpg

No wonder korean mega corps like samsung, lg and hyundai, are concerned that those dangerous chinese/taiwanese copies are having a "negative influence" on the images of their brands.

[xenon @ Feb 25th 2008 6:20AM]

Pathetic? hah, thats rich for someone that uses an @ symbol for a ^.^

[Backlin @ Feb 24th 2008 9:42PM]

At least it didn't explode.

[Tony @ Feb 24th 2008 11:14PM]

In South Korea, batteries melt you!

[Tired_ @ Feb 24th 2008 11:40PM]

No, no, no. In South Korea, only old people melt batteries.

[jonthemiller @ Feb 24th 2008 10:07PM]

Its because the laptop was turned on and on a pillow on a bed for over 3 hours, no wonder it overheated

[CraigJ @ Feb 24th 2008 10:24PM]

oh, that's what those little holes on the bottom are for. Who knew?

[Reader @ Feb 24th 2008 10:55PM]

Obviously they're there for sticking candy wrappers in when you don't have anywhere else to put them. Duh, everyone knows that.

[guerilla779 @ Feb 25th 2008 3:24AM]

yea if it was SONY then it would have been their fault . But with samsung its the pillow not bad quality but a pillow.


Its time to suck up and spend some money samsung and LG.

[James @ Feb 24th 2008 10:19PM]

A blowtorch was applied for 2 hours while in use.

But they didn't mention that.

[phanbouy @ Feb 24th 2008 10:23PM]

Mr. Chung is that you?

but yeah i wonder if samsung makes batteries? if so might explain sumpin..

[Chris @ Feb 24th 2008 10:25PM]

Jesus what battery doesn't explode? This must be the robots secretly getting their revenge.(again)

[mattwier @ Feb 24th 2008 10:44PM]

Arson!! You know why??? He had just installed an HD-DVD player in it.

[phanbouy @ Feb 25th 2008 12:08AM]

talk about final nail er last straw!

[linuxamp @ Feb 25th 2008 12:08AM]

Just look at how much energy we're packing into such small containers these days. It's no wonder we're beginning to see the energy released in unintended ways.

[ethana2 @ Feb 25th 2008 12:26AM]

It is amazing, isn't it? If we had no incidents at all, who could say we were pushing the boundaries of our technological knowledge forward as rapidly as possible?

[guerilla779 @ Feb 25th 2008 3:25AM]

instead of putting kibosh on SSD reliability......SAMMY should kibosh their laptop issues first.

[Rocketboy @ Feb 25th 2008 10:11AM]

I wonder if the fan was in a closed room with a fan on... You know, maybe it was Fan Death that caused the battery to melt...

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[tang @ May 17th 2008 9:21PM]

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