Fire
Symbian executive vice president for research David Wood made an important keynote speech in Symbian Smartphoneshow last October. In his speech, he listed six “horsemen of the apocalypse” challenges “standing in the way of smartphones fulfilling their promise”.
The first one was fire.
Here’s the slide he used:
Now, Techmundo is reporting that his E61 is heating up:
I just notice something, first with Symtorrent, and now with Podcasting. With the wi-fi on and and the E61 downloading stuff, the battery is quickly drained. So I do the logical thing and keep the phone plugged in while downloading updates, but the back plate gets warm. And it gets warmed alot. I just want to know if this is normal. Any of you guys experience this? Normal charging doesn’t warm up the phone, but the wifi-download-charge combo seems to, and I just worry that it’s frying up my battery or worse.
Let’s take these warnings seriously.
Bonus link: Coming soon: Your mobile is on fire
The same effect is felt on the metal plates of 3250 on the sides while charging, surfing the net or listening to music or talkin on the fone for over 40 minutes
In my blog, I described energy management (from different perspectives) as one of the crucial areas for the mobile ecosystem to be tackled soon. It seems that this is heard but the current lifetimes of phones already reaches the painful limit of , I described energy management (from different perspectives) as one of the crucial areas for the mobile ecosystem to be tackled soon. It seems that this is heard but the current lifetimes of phones already reaches the painful limit of <24h.
Why are you so surprise? there have been known cases of Nokia batteries catching fire.
Boom
Boom, I think you are referring to the old case in which it was some counterfeit batteries, not Nokia batteries, that caught fire. At least that’s how I remember the story.
Dirk, fully agree. Energy management (to ensure good enough battery life) is becoming increasingly critical, and there probably are no easy solutions. But that’s partly a different problem than the heating problem, I think.
May be, may be not; lets leave it at that.
Anyway, what is Nokia doing to fight counterfeiters? Nothing much (or at all) in India at least.
Boom