BlackBerry Bolds are Overheating

[JMcEntegart]

Bad news for Canadian smartphone manufacturer, Research In Motion as news emerges that DoCoMo, Japan’s biggest mobile phone provider has stopped sales of the device following reports of the device overheating.

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[techtre2003]

I wonder how "hot" the keypads got? The full article states the phones may overheat when charging. Doesn't any device with a rechargeable battery heat up when charging?

 

[grieve]

It doesn’t surprise me that phones overheat, now days they are packing a lot of technology into a small package.

My Iphone gets wicked hot, doesn’t overheat but I’m sure its borderline.

 

[tayb]

Is this an issue of the phones actually overheating or are they just merely heating up? From the article it sounds like the latter.

 

[zak_mckraken]

"Oh noze, my latest technological device which has the power of my computer has it's temperature rising slightly above the ambiant level. This must be abnormal. I am outraged, I think."

 

[jerreece]

I'm surprised they've pulled the product completely. 30 out of 4,000 is only 0.75% (3/4%). And considering so far the only complaint is it get "hot"... no damage, no burns, no fire, no failures mentioned.

[citation][nom]tayb[/nom]Is this an issue of the phones actually overheating or are they just merely heating up? From the article it sounds like the latter.[/citation]

I'd be interested to hear just how hot they are getting. And whether it has anything to do with charging the phone, or during long use. I've had cell phones that would get hot after you talked for a couple hours straight. And by hot they were not unbearable to hold, just very warm.

 

[Silluete]

Well good thing they doesn't wait until they get victim, right? May be they should wait until some of the phone explode or something? Now that's a news!

 

[Tekkamanraiden]

Well heck if you text message on it 14 hours a day, its bound to get a little warm.