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Adventures in product testing: This phone's so hot, it'll set your head on fire

Actually, this is pretty cool. A phone that sets your head on fire. Most people charge extra for that.

These lithium-ion polymer batteries can overheat due to an internal short circuit in the batteries, which can pose a fire hazard. The battery has only been used in the GN9120 wireless headset.

Go ahead, make up your own joke.

Published Wednesday, November 19, 2008 7:00 AM by oldnewthing
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# re: Adventures in product testing: This phone's so hot, it'll set your head on fire

Wednesday, November 19, 2008 10:39 AM by John

I know a few people in tech support who would probably prefer to have their heads on fire rather than talk to users.

# re: Adventures in product testing: This phone's so hot, it'll set your head on fire

Wednesday, November 19, 2008 12:05 PM by robo

Machines are preparing to take over the world. This is just the first generation of suicide attacks by "our" hardware - a test wave if you will.

# re: Adventures in product testing: This phone's so hot, it'll set your head on fire

Wednesday, November 19, 2008 4:07 PM by Matt T.

This model is sitting on my desk. Not cool.

# re: Adventures in product testing: This phone's so hot, it'll set your head on fire

Wednesday, November 19, 2008 4:45 PM by nobodyman

There are far too many glass-half-empty people not seeing this for the opportunity that it is. All they need now is a bit of control over *when* it catches on fire.   Once they got that licked, all they gotta do is market this as a theft deterrent.

"Somebody steal your Jabra(tm)?  Nuke 'Em!!"

# re: Adventures in product testing: This phone's so hot, it'll set your head on fire

Wednesday, November 19, 2008 11:52 PM by Miral

Nitpicker's Corner: of all the wireless headset products made by Jabra, only the GN9120 uses that battery.  This does not imply anything about products made by other people.

(Just to try and preempt the moaning.  Not that this ever works.)

# re: Adventures in product testing: This phone's so hot, it'll set your head on fire

Thursday, November 20, 2008 11:16 AM by Aaron G

Apparently their stock has been cooling off since the announcement.

# re: Adventures in product testing: This phone's so hot, it'll set your head on fire

Thursday, November 20, 2008 11:51 AM by -dan

It's always a few hotheads that ruin it for everybody else

# re: Adventures in product testing: This phone's so hot, it'll set your head on fire

Tuesday, November 25, 2008 5:55 PM by mbghtri

Hear someone talking during the movie, but not sure who it is?

Light 'em up!

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