A Nokia phone has exploded again - the 20th incident this year and it is all because of cheap batteries, the company says.
In the most recent incident last week, a 24-year-old Finnish woman had dropped the phone and then tried to get it to work but it would not so she charged it up. It swelled and then exploded. In another incident in August, in Amsterdam, a 33-year-old woman also dropped her Nokia phone and when she switched it on it exploded. The burst caused burns on her face and neck.
In a Google search on 'exploding mobile phones', you will find that Nokia's are the only ones reported to go up in flames and the cases are international.
Just last month, Chung Xao Le was in a staff cafeteria at a Ho Chi Minh City hospital when her Nokia 8210 exploded.
Sony Ericsson recalled 350,000 phone chargers in Britain in September because of a fault which caused the units to explode. But the harm is not perceived to be as great because chargers are not held near the ears.
Nokia claims that in every case counterfeit batteries were used and it has advised people to only buy the original which of course is many times the price of a copy. This, however, is untrue because in the Netherlands case it was an original Nokia battery.