Phone Users Explain How Their Samsung Galaxy S4 Got Burnt

A 13-year-old Texas girl, Ariel Tolfree who placed her
Samsung Galaxy S4 under her pillow while charging it and fell asleep has
explained how she woke up to see it burnt.

Tolfree said later that night, she smelled something
burning, but never thought it could be her phone. “I didn’t think much of it,
so I went back to sleep and then I woke up again and it was more prominent,”
she said.

Tolfree’s dad however believes the phone overheated, causing
the battery to swell and ignite a small fire.

In another development, Holly Hewett, 25, plugged her phone
in to charge while she slept, but she was later woken up by a sizzling sound
and the smell of the burning phone. She explains;

‘I woke up at 4.30am when my boyfriend got up to go to work
and looked at my phone to check the time.

‘I noticed it was running low on battery so I plugged it in
and put it on charge.

‘At about 5am I checked the time again then rolled over and
went back to sleep, but within about 10 minutes of that I heard a sizzling
sound.

‘Even though it was dark I could smell the smoke. I picked
it up and the screen sparked.

‘As I walked to the bathroom the battery fell out of the
casing at the back onto the floor.

‘I didn’t burn myself but there’s a hole in the carpet where
it scorched it. The smell was awful, so I opened a window.’

‘I was on my own and panicked because I’d got no house phone
so I didn’t know how to contact anyone to let them know what had happened, she
said.